Taylor Yard, in Los Angeles California, United States, is a former railway station and classification yard and headquarters of Southern Pacific Railroad operations in Southern California. [1] The site has been gradually redeveloped with public open space, housing, and other uses including the Rio de Los Angeles State Park . [ 2 ]

The intense use and activity at Taylor Yard began to change in the 1960's as Southern Pacific re-routed its north-south trains through the Cajon Pass instead of through downtown Los Angeles. With the completion of the West Colton Yard in 1973, the …

In 1923, Southern Pacific opened up a new maintenance and service yard near Glendale, CA. Named for a local entrepreneur, Taylor Yard was one of the larger service yards in the Los Angeles area. It was a full-service railroad hump yard, and was responsible for maintenance of both locomotives and railroad rolling stock and for freight switching ...

2010年6月4日 · This large Southern Pacific yard was built in the early 1900s along the bay to replace the SP's smaller inland yard. The yard soon served as the heavy locomotive shops for the SP and some of its subsidiaries, and thus was one of …

The West Oakland Yards are a rail yard facility in West Oakland, Oakland, California, in the United States. Formerly a major facility for the Southern Pacific Railroad, the yards have been operated by Union Pacific Railroad since 1996.

The original Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in San Francisco in 1865, by a group of businessmen led by Timothy Phelps with the aim of building a rail connection between San Francisco and San Diego, California.The company was purchased in September 1868 by a group of businessmen known as the Big Four: Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Jr. and C. P. Huntington.

2023年10月25日 · For decades, whenever I had a few free minutes, I’d drive down to Southern Pacific’s sprawling Taylor Yard complex in Los Angeles to see what was in town. Most of the time it was just regular power, and cookie-cutter freight cars.

The relatively new park represents the former site of the 19th century Southern Pacific rail yard, maintenance shops, and depot known as River Station. River Station served as the rail hub for all of Southern California from 1875 to 1904, so it played a pivotal role in the significant population and economic growth of the region at that time.

In 2021 the old Southern Pacific roundhouse that facilitated train assembly in the Bayshore Yards is the only remnant left. While officially closed, it is not hard to enter the grounds on foot. Southern Pacific had another roundhouse in Mission Bay too.

SP FREIGHT HUB--Taylor Yard, one of the major marshalling points in the Southern Pacific rail system, is 35 tracks wide between San Fernando Road and the Golden State Freeway and Stretches three miles from Fletcher Drive to the Pasadena-Golden State freeway interchange.