Thought some members of the forum might really enjoy seeing the Fresno Pullman shed in the 1970's... A friend, Robert Zenk, took these photographs between 1975 and 1977 and offer a unique glimpse into the inside of the Pullman shed... Robert indicated that the Southern Pacific offered a number of overnight sleeping car trains through the San Joaquin Valley, with Fresno being the largest city at the midway point between the Bay Area and Los Angeles. As a courtesy to passengers, Pullman sleeping cars were readied for occupancy under this shed in the evening, and then were cut into their trains in the wee hours of the morning. The practice was abandoned in the waning days of SP postwar passenger service, but the shed was not.
In these photographs you can see the shed was four tracks wide, and on this day in the mid 1970's .. only Southern Pacific office car 107 "Delmonte" occupies the shed. 107 was originally Henry E Huntington's private car San Marino.
Hope a few members find this interesting...Any additional information would be welcomed.
Dean Levin
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