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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Myford Browning: [QB] The former SP trackage that ran in Santa Ana St. to the east of Olive St. did at one time connect with the AT&SF-SP Interchange and also served a citrus products company. The SP delivered tank cars of corn syrup to the facility (Anaheim Citrus Products ?) in the last years that it was used. Interechange between the Espee and Santa Fe seemed to cahnge to the connection near State College Ave when that trackage was installed in the late 50s or early 60s when the Whirlpool and General Foods warehouses were built and a joint service agreement was established between the railroads. Both those companies are gone and little if any interchange occurs in Orange County. Some other interesting features of the track are the following: When the line was first built through downtown Anaheim in 1899, the eastern extension on Santa Ana St. extended about 1200 feet east of the Santa Fe line which required a crossing. This short trackage to the city limit appearently did not last very long since references to it in timetables are very few. The SP used this trackage to reach a connection with the Union Pacific's Anaheim Branch. The SP had trackage rights to serve Fullerton from when the PE and UP consolidated trackage from the Whittier area to Fullerton. After the PE-SP merger in 1965, the SP served that area. The SP decided to serve the area from its Anaheim operation and a connection was made sometime in the very late 60s or early 70s. Surprisingly (or perhap not so due to competion)there was no interchange between the UP and Santa Fe/SP in Anaheim. The UP tracks just stopped in an area on the southside of Lincoln Ave (Center St)where the maintained a turntable for at time. The UP branch was completed in 1923. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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