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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Myford Browning: [QB] A look at the past for the Orange County Rwy Historical Society newsletter by Clifford Prather Derailment of 1542 Unfortunately many of the railroad items that appear in the press involve accidents. In this article that included photos, the Southern Pacific Santa Ana Local with the Baldwin S12 1542 and a caboose plus six cars derailed at Katella Ave in Anaheim. The ill-fated train was struck by a gravel truck that caused the 7:45 AM derailment and in the process created a large loop of rail in the air. The date of this event was in the early to mid 1960s, however the exact date was not documented by the young collector. During the period of time that this accident occurred there were several trains that used the SP to Santa Ana. In the morning the SP local would run down from Anaheim and switch the industries in Santa Ana and down to Dyer (Warner Ave area) where the Holly Sugar factory was. Between Santa Ana and Dyer was the Kerr Glass factory that received sand and shipped carloads of product. The Pacific Electric train to South Santa Ana and Costa Mesa used the SP line to Dyer after the PE’s line through Santa Ana was abandoned around 1958. The PE normally used SP switch engines in the 4600 series (TR6A) and operated out the joint SP-PE yard at Los Nietos in the afternoon. The PE crew would often go to beans (meal break) at Pop’s Steak House on 4th Street in Santa Ana. The SP operated a perishable hauler that picked up reefers loaded with citrus or vegetable during the evening and then moved then to a location to be picked up by a through freight. The SP had anumber of Baldwin switcher assigned to Anaheim, plus some EMD models such as NW2s and SW8s. There was a vegetable shipper at Dyer that would be switched by the Perishable Hauler. The railroad was operated by yard limit rules and the locals could move around without authority of a dispatcher. This created some interesting moments when the PE was returning from Costa Mesa and the hauler was heading to Dyer. A seasonal operation was the sugar beet train to the sugar factory at Dyer. The operation varied from time to time with sometimes the train that delivered the beets switching the beet dump during day or an engine assigned to Santa Ana doing the switching and another train delivering the loads and pulling the empties. Eventually, Holly Sugar purchased SP 1000 (SW1) and used to switch the beet dump as Holly Sugar 1. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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