Just got back from a trip to San Deigo. It was a one day visit made on very short notice so I had no time for sightseeing. But, looks like I may be going back again in the future, so perhaps I'll have opportunities to see some of the local attractions.

Regardless, this trip, I went to the Goodrich plant (formerly Rohr) in Chula Vista. Headed out from the plant you cross quadruple(?) tracks running north/south(?) which have red trolley cars running on them. There were at least double tracks running east/west(?), a crossing diamond, and a spur that ran a mile or so down the middle of F Street, before it abruptly terminated, either removed, or at least covered.

Anybody know about these lines, active and otherwise

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Apart from the really nice railroad museum out there with occasional trips to Mexico, don't miss the huge model railroad in the park - the park also has a wonderful antique auto collection and gardens you can wander for days. The railroad station downtown has an archive and library which is open a couple days a week if you want to do some research. Good German style microbrewery in Old Town with ale celebrating the new electric trolley. Not too far from the airport is a British style pub with pretty good bangers and mash. National City has a restored station, wooden railcar on display in a plaza, and fine BBQ joint as well as the beginnings of a trolley operation. Some real heavy shipyards are still in operation there as well. Lots to see and do at the edge down there.

Dave

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There is also a fine maritime museum, It is composed of three ships: a squqre-rigger, a steam ferry and a steam yacht.

The ferry Berkeley was the Southern Pacific's first screw powered boat. She was built in 1898 by the Union Iron works here in San Francisco. Her engine room is operational for display; it uses a combination of compressed air and electricity.

Ted

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> There were at least double tracks running
> east/west(?), a crossing diamond, and a spur
> that ran a mile or so down the middle of F
> Street, before it abruptly terminated,
> either removed, or at least covered.

> Anybody know about these lines, active and
> otherwise

Hume -

sorry I missed you - love to meet you someday.

The spur down F street is the old SD&A/SD&AE spur which went to a packing plant further into Chula Vista. My friend remembers riding 0-6-0 steam locomotives down that line. It remains now to allow access to the Coronado branch - which comes off the eastern mainline at F Street, travels down F Street, back across the diamond, across I-5 and onto the branch. The branch was just listed as a California Historical site.

Interestingly, the Impossible Railway book shows a trolley car under wire crossing over "Chula Vista Junction" on this diamond with the SD&A/SD&AE not powered. Many years later, the scene has reversed!

Call me anytime you come into town - I'm listed in the phone book. If I can, I'll be happy to show you around.


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Up the road to the north in the city of Vista is an unsung jewel. It is the Antique Gas and Steam Museum. Everything farm from steam tractors to belt driven reapers. Not railroad, but steam and lots of old, cool stuff!

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> Up the road to the north in the city of
> Vista is an unsung jewel. It is the Antique
> Gas and Steam Museum. Everything farm from
> steam tractors to belt driven reapers. Not
> railroad, but steam and lots of old, cool
> stuff!

And one of the finest examples of the dangers of no collections management in the country. It will remind you of a tractor graveyard.

Dave

irondave@bellsouth.net