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| Southern Pacific Taylor Yard, Los Angeles, California - "LA Diesel" - December 1986 |
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| Southern Pacific Taylor Yard, Los Angeles, California - "LA Diesel" - December 1986 |
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| Southern Pacific Taylor Yard, Los Angeles, California - "LA Diesel" - December 1986 - Servicing Pad |
Not that I ever drove through Taylor Yard many times, taking as many diesel pictures as I could without getting ejected by one of the guys in the dread white hard hats. One winter afternoon in 1986 I ventured up some of the streets up above Taylor west of I-5 and the LA River up in the Elysian Park area of Los Angeles to get a nice down on view of LA Diesel. There is a lot of interesting stuff here, The back row of flared 45s and tunnel motors are stored pending the reubuilding program in Sacramento, not that all would make it. I can't help but look at these photos and think just how many little packages of Details West headlights, etc., I would need to model all of these units. Note the 9115 with the classic red Scotchlite backing bleed through. I resisted the temptation to embed a Google Map of the location today, because the scene today looks like one of those surrealistic paintings of utter desolation.
Hi have you got more shots of Taylor Yard ? these pictures are very precious to me , Im modeling Taylor Yard in HO scale .
ReplyDeleteYes, I have other shots of Taylor. It may be a while before they appear on the blog, but stay tuned.
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