by BRUCE PETTY saeco@snowcrest.com Welcome The Los Angeles River Railroads is about the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and the Santa Fe Railways that ran their tracks over and beside this river of concrete. I offer these historic photographs of the 1930's and my photography efforts from the 1960's through the 1970's, of Railroading in Los Angeles. Old friends will notice that the LARR Heading Photo at the top of the page has changed, This photo was taken during the early 1960s from the Broadway Street Bridge looking north towards the San Fernando Valley. LA Railroad History This historical perspective of the Southern Pacific Railroad by Larry Mullaly and Bruce Petty, will take you back to the first days of railroading in Los Angeles right up to the Union Pacific takeover. Our "Southern Pacific in Los Angeles" book is from Golden West Publishers. Check with Amazon Books for a copy. ISBN 0-87095-118-1 NEW The Charles Robinson Photo Collection Taken between 1946 and 1951 at the Los Angeles Union Passenger Station and SP's Taylor Yard. NEW Searchlight Signals From my collection of Southern Pacific's engineering blueprints of CTC Equipment and Searchlight Signals. Here is a webpage for our Dunsmuir Model Railroad Club. Our meetings are on Tuesday nights starting at 6:00PM. Over 100 web pages on this site! Rails Along the River Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal West Coast Passenger Train Los Angeles-Sacramento. Along Espee Lines Taylor Yard, Glendale. New and Larger Color Photos! Old Southern Pacific Structures at River Station Yard near Chinatown. RPO and Baggage Cars for Mail Trains. Streamlined Passenger Cars in use during the 1960's. Freight Car Photographs Many New Photos Added! Reefer Madness, my collection of COLOR photos of ice hatch Refrigerator Cars that were running 30 to 60 years ago. Southern Pacific Depots in Southern California. Coast Daylight Wreck at Northridge, CA. 1963 NEW: The rest of the story!Larger Color Photos! Downtown LA Industrial Section Burbank Junction and Branch Line Historic Burbank Branch industrial photographs. Los Angeles River,1938 Flood My Los Angeles & San Fernando Valley, HO Model Railroad. The Trona Railway, A Soda Ash hauling railroads operation during the 1970s. Larger Color Photos! Capitol Milling Company Early California Boiler Houses Corliss Steam Engines in California Early California Oil Industry Manley Oilfield No.2.A guest page by Albert Novak, about another LA City oil field with his photos taken in 1983. Burbank Branch by Jack Neville,who lived in North Hollywood during the 1950s. Justin Patrick has this guest page about Burbank Junction and the Los Angeles Junction Railroad during the 1980s. A guest page has been added with photos that Michael Frezell had taken of a wreck during the Last Days of the Burbank Branch 1991. Industry located in Colorado photographed while on vacation March 2011. Colorado Refractory Commpany My wife Cheryl and I made up seven little Christmas Train stories for our 9 year old nephew, we hope your children will enjoy them too: The Town Christmas Tree Story THE LOS ANGELES RIVER RAILROADS
	The Los Angeles Yard also known as Taylor Yard was constructed by the Southern Pacific Railroad along the banks of the L.A. River in Glendale in 1925. This yard was to relieve the freight traffic congestion of the downtown River Station Yard (AKA the Bull Ring), and Midway Yard. This view of the yard in color was taken during the early 1960s when the tallest structure downtown was the LA City Hall. Here is a picture of the Alhambra Shops. Photo 1960, courtesy S.P. Lines
	Along the bank of the Los Angeles River are Taylor yard Diesel Shops. This was constructed in 1949 to service Southern Pacific's growing fleet of new diesel power as the use of the steam locomotive ended by the mid 1950s. Photo 1972. Photo of the Taylor Yard Shops back in the steam days.
	At Dayton Ave. Tower, Southern Pacific's few remaining F7-A's are being sent to the diesel shops for refueling. Photo 1971
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