Layout Tour July 2010 Copyright 2010 by James E. Lancaster This gallery of
photos follows Santa Fe Freight Extra 9812 East as
it traverses my version of the Santa Fe's Third District between Orange
County and Colton in Southern California. The motive power for this
trip is Alco RSD-15 #9812 and EMD SD24 #947.
Chapman
![]() Figure 1. Extra 9812 East comes out of the west-end staging and passes through the Texaco refinery in West Chapman.
The refinery is switched by the Los Angeles and San Diego (LA&SD)
railroad, a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific. This was the first part
of my model railroad that I built back in 1987-88.
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4. The freight train passes the Chapman depot. Chapman is a fictitious
town generally representing the area between Anaheim and Atwood.
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5. The Chapman depot is owned by the LA&SD Railroad.
![]() Figure 6. This trackside view looks east. This part of the layout was completed in 1987-89.
The depot is a kitbashed NMRA headquarters building. The kit was
originally made by Con-Cor/Heljan but has been out of production for many
years.
Villa Park
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7. Working east through Villa Park the train passes the Villa Park
Orchards Association citrus packing house. The prototype packing house
was on the SP Tustin Branch. This trackwork has been in place since
before 1990 but the packing house and surrounding scenery was only
finished in 2008.
Santiago
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8. Santiago represents the Santa Ana Canyon between Orange County and
Corona. The prototype Santa Fe Third District ran through the canyon.
The track is now home to Metrolink and BNSF. On my layout, Santiago is
the junction with the LA&SD line to San Diego. This trackwork has also been in place since before 1990 but the scenery was only added in 2008.
Prado ![]() Figure
9. The train passes through Prado (Prado Dam on the prototype Santa
Fe). The Union Pacific serves a short team track here for loading
reefers with locally-grown fruits and vegetables. The UP has trackage rights on the Santa Fe to get to this location.
Corona ![]() Figure
10. Before reaching Corona, our freight train comes around a broad,
sweeping curve. Inside the curve are the red buildings of the LA&SD
engine terminal (front), Corona Plumbing Supply Company (middle) and
the LA&SD freight house where you can just see a PMT truck and
trailer (rear).
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11. Extra 9812 East passes the Santa Fe's depot in Corona.
Although the prototype for the Walthers kit is a Santa Fe depot,
the actual Corona depot had a different architecture. The trackwork
here dates to 1990. This is the second depot at this location and it
was finished in early 2010.
![]() Figure 12. This view shows the south side of the Corona depot .
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13. This view looks west at the east end of the Corona depot. The trackage
to the right of the Santa Fe locomotives belongs to the LA&SD. The
latter gets to Corona via trackage rights over the Santa Fe.
Arlington
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14. Arlington is east of Corona. Here we see the freight train passing
the Galivan packing house with its adjacent smudge oil tank. On the
left is the Arlington Box Company that provides wooden orange crates
for the
packing house. Behind Gavilan is the Golden State Hardware warehouse
and next to it the Union Ice Company. In the foreground is the
LA&SD track from Corona.
![]() ![]() Figure 16. The train leaves Arlington headed for Riverside.
Riverside
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17. The RSD-15 passes the Alfred M. Lewis grocery warehouse in
Riverside. The boxcars are on one of the two Santa Fe sidings that are
in the pavement on Pachappa Ave, just as on the prototype.
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18. ATSF Extra 9812 East meets a UP local freight behind a GP7 at 7th
Street in Riverside. The National Orange Company Sunkist packing house
is on Pachappa Ave. between 7th and 6th Streets. The prototype
structure burned in 2001. The Riverside section of the model railroad
was added between 2005 and 2008, primarily to accommodate the National
Orange packing house.
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19. Leaving Riverside, the caboose of our freight train passes an A&P market.
![]() Highgrove
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22. .... and crosses the street while traffic waits.
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23. Passing through Highgrove, the Santa Fe's double tracked Third
District main line parallels Southren Pacific's Riverside Branch. The
Highgrove Fruit Association packing house is on the SP. This part of
the layout is on the upper level that was added in 2008 (Chapman is
below on the lower level). Track was laid in 2009 and the structures
were added in 2010. The packing house was built from a CC Crow plaster kit.
Barton Road ![]() ![]() Figure
25. After passing under Barton Road the Alco-led freight crosses the
SP's mainline to Los Angeles. The SP Riverside local's caboose also
goes under Barton Road. The bare area between the tracks is the future location for a model of Colton Tower.
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26. Cabooses of both trains pass just south of Barton Road.
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