Rail Traffic around the AT&SF's Stockton (Ca.) Tower in 1990 showing trains from Santa Fe, Southern Pacific and Union Pacific. The tower was taken out of service in 1997 and demolished in 1999.
hi i visited the crossing in the beggining of 1998 and the tower was operable, and old man invited to upstair and see the movements from this point regards
Sad to see that tower go down and the WP row between the yard through downtown was pulled out all those crossings were old griswold crossing gates I miss seeing those. The same thing in the Bay Area the WP row is abandoned between Union City and into downtown Oakland at Melrose junction. All this abandonment was due to the merger with SP in 1996.
I was wondering about the WP row through Stockton. I know BNSF uses the former WP main down into Stockton off the Sacramento sub. Does the abandoned section of WP in Stockton end just a little north of this location?
My first visit was 1988, thanks for the memories!
I remember being a child of around 9 yrs old going with my friend Andy to go and catch blue-bellied 🦎 right here at the diamonds in the year 1988.
Man that small SP switcher engine needs to be in a museum. Wow!
Thanks 😊 for the precious ❤️ memories...
awesome documenting these older assets
Another awesome video.
This was great!
hi i visited the crossing in the beggining of 1998 and the tower was operable, and old man invited to upstair and see the movements from this point regards
Sad to see that tower go down and the WP row between the yard through downtown was pulled out all those crossings were old griswold crossing gates I miss seeing those. The same thing in the Bay Area the WP row is abandoned between Union City and into downtown Oakland at Melrose junction. All this abandonment was due to the merger with SP in 1996.
I was wondering about the WP row through Stockton. I know BNSF uses the former WP main down into Stockton off the Sacramento sub. Does the abandoned section of WP in Stockton end just a little north of this location?
@@HitsTownUSA the only part that’s left is the ST&E interchange yard that lies just north of downtown Stockton UP built a connector to that Yard
The tower is gone now and the SP is gone as well. The tracks are still here and still a busy crossing I believe.
I miss the southern Pacific and Western Pacific train's. Great memories
Check out the train museum in Old Sacramento...
You hear an S-3L and your first thought is "Must be SP or UP"
When I think of leslies, I think of the Florida East Coast or the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe.
So cool to see trains before the invention of grafitti
Excellent!