Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Coyote Wells, CA
This has been a fun part of the layout. Those of you who've been following the progress know I started with Plaster City on this side of the scenic divider. Figured out it would kill my zero based budget to build the large structures and industry to represent U.S. Gypsum. Then I thought Dos Cabezos. Problem there. The switches were in for Plaster City and I didn't want to tear them out. So I was caught by Coyote Wells, knowing there was a main, passing and hold there with a wye and an engine lead. I decided to model it with the engine lead appear as a spur off the El Centro side (I-8 overpass) to a crude diesel and water facility. The first pictures of it came out great. I have been improving the area this week. Needed to paint the roofs of the MOW and buildings roofs green. The walls were already yellow in accordance to SP colors.
I am elated the process of paint, sand, sandpaper, paint came out great.
I am elated the process of paint, sand, sandpaper, paint came out great.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Going to replace my scratch built SD&AE depot in El Centro with this...
Coyote Wells, CA 9/86
http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/2897
But I would call it "wet texturing" - It works because you can't really use dirt or sand in N scale, it's too large, the granules. The paint is the 99 cent stuff from Wal-Mart: Folk Art #420 Linen. It looks like sand.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
New El Centro and Calexico pics from John Totten
Friday, November 25, 2011
Trip to The Gorge
http://sdsons.org/Club%20Documents/carrizo%20gorge%20article.html
Once upon a time a railroad was built east from San Diego to Seeley{El Centro} as the San Diego & Arizona which was known as The Impossible Railroad which was completed on November 15, 1919. It ran from San Diego south to the border with Mexico at San Ysidro, crossed into Mexico through Tijuana to Tecate. Northeast of Tecate the railroad crossed back into the United States to Campo. East of Campo it ran through clover Flats then across the high 600 foot long Upper Campo Creek Viaduct. It crossed the Coast Range at Hipass at an elevation of 3,660 feet. The line then headed down the grade to Jacumba and Dubbers. From Hipass to the desert floor 3440 feet down, the railroad builders faced their greatest challenge, the Carriso Gorge, in order to complete the line. So the railroad could keep it 2.2 gradient and keep the curvature down the need for extensive tunnels and trestle work was needed to build the line. The line was built to a 2.2 grade and hung on a ledge 1,000 feet above the normally dry stream. The 17 tunnels in the Carriso Gorge have a total length if combined of 13,385 feet. The whole 11 miles through the Carriso Gorge cost $4 million dollars in 1919. Some of the final cost of building the San Diego & Arizona came from the 21 tunnels which covered almost three miles of the line at $1.8 million. There was nearly 2.5 miles of bridgework on the line. Total per mile cost came to $129,000 which would be very high for building a railroad in those days.
Once upon a time a railroad was built east from San Diego to Seeley{El Centro} as the San Diego & Arizona which was known as The Impossible Railroad which was completed on November 15, 1919. It ran from San Diego south to the border with Mexico at San Ysidro, crossed into Mexico through Tijuana to Tecate. Northeast of Tecate the railroad crossed back into the United States to Campo. East of Campo it ran through clover Flats then across the high 600 foot long Upper Campo Creek Viaduct. It crossed the Coast Range at Hipass at an elevation of 3,660 feet. The line then headed down the grade to Jacumba and Dubbers. From Hipass to the desert floor 3440 feet down, the railroad builders faced their greatest challenge, the Carriso Gorge, in order to complete the line. So the railroad could keep it 2.2 gradient and keep the curvature down the need for extensive tunnels and trestle work was needed to build the line. The line was built to a 2.2 grade and hung on a ledge 1,000 feet above the normally dry stream. The 17 tunnels in the Carriso Gorge have a total length if combined of 13,385 feet. The whole 11 miles through the Carriso Gorge cost $4 million dollars in 1919. Some of the final cost of building the San Diego & Arizona came from the 21 tunnels which covered almost three miles of the line at $1.8 million. There was nearly 2.5 miles of bridgework on the line. Total per mile cost came to $129,000 which would be very high for building a railroad in those days.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
SD&AE El Centro Depot
The
depot came out great. I painted what looks like “terra cotta” and added the
pillars on the colonnade design. I used computer generated roof sheets and
front and end panels I designed in Paint.
This should suffice until I have the time to cut out the windows and
doors and add Grandt Line attributes. 
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Coyote Wells this weekend
Going to begin work on the "B" side of the HCD layout this weekend. My 49'ers are 8-1 and play Arizona so I won't be that football crazy. This plan will keep some of the components of the yard and old engine tracks and maybe the wye there. I'm looking at the main, passing and hold that's still there today. And in the parts and structure box, I have enought MOW buildings and some tanks for the engine spur. Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
Heading to San Diego this weekend...
Now maybe afterwards Grandpa can talk the clan into a trip to Campo! Or at least Reed's Hobby Shop in La Mesa with a trolley ride there.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
El Centro Motors from a box
Sunday, November 6, 2011
El Centro - Coyote Wells
Now I remember that was my original plan for my SD&AE HCD layout was to represent El Centro with part of the wye from The SD&AE into The SP, the depots, the small industrial area in El Centro and a backdrop representing what I could do from the track, the depot to the businesses in the back of the depot area.
This is the area modeled on the A side of the HCD layout. The redlines show the
LDE parameter. Modeling the depots is a challenge. They are both colonnade design, the SP and junior SD&AE depot next door. As of July 2011, they have both been torn down. UP was using the main SP depot as offices and shops. I will have to rely on Internet pictures and the few I was able to take in 2009.
This is now the B side of the HCD. I was going to do this originally, then thought I could model Plaster City and the massive U.S. Gypsum plant there. Too much month at the end of the money to do that. I shifted to Dos Cabezo which has a derelict water tower, SP style concrete phone booth and what was left of a rock loading siding. I shifted back to Coyote Wells which included two sidings a team track, engine and water leads. This was a service point for steam on the original railroad.
LDE parameter. Modeling the depots is a challenge. They are both colonnade design, the SP and junior SD&AE depot next door. As of July 2011, they have both been torn down. UP was using the main SP depot as offices and shops. I will have to rely on Internet pictures and the few I was able to take in 2009.
B side of HCD, first Plaster City, then Dos Cabeza now Coyote Wells:
When I laid the track on the B side of the HCD SD&AE layout, I put in a tandem of switches, Code 80 mainline and code 55 for the sidings. I can easily convert this to Coyote Wells. (see below)
Thursday, November 3, 2011
SD&AE Timetable 1939
San Diego-El Centro Subdivision - Via Tijuana and Tecate
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Stations
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Distance from San Diego
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Distance between stations
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Time Table Notes
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Elevation (ft)
Notes
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Photos
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Additional Photos
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San Diego
Register
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0.0
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..
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..
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..
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Figures shown Between San Diego and Market Street are for Information Only.
Be Governed by Current Timetables A.T. & S.F. Ry.
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Market Street
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0.4
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0.4
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..
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..
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First Street
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0.7
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0.3
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..
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..
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Eighth Street
Train Order - Register
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1.1
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0.4
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Yard
KBPOWY
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10
Start of the Lakeside Subdivision
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Twelfth Street
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4.8
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3.7
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P
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Start of the Chula Vista Subdivision
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Chula Vista Jct.
(Crossing C.V. Line)
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7.4
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2.6
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P
14
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..
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Boal
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9.1
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1.7
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P
55
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..
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Otay Gravel Pit
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10.1
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1.0
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P
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..
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Palm City
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11.1
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1.0
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P
20
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35
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San Ysidro
Train Order - Register
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15.5
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4.4
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KP
99
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100
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Tijuana
Register
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16.2
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0.7
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PY
110
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100
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Agua Caliente
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18.5
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2.3
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30
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..
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Garcia
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24.0
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5.5
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P
47
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210
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Matanuca
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27.5
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3.5
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33
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350
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Redondo
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36.6
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9.1
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PWY
46
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765
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Rita
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44.9
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8.3
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P
41
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1315
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La Puerta
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48.4
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3.5
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P
42
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1590
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Tecate
Train Order - Register
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52.8
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4.4
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PW
31
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1690
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Lindero
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59.6
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6.6
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22
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2120
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Division
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60.3
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0.7
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P
16
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2190
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Campo
Train Order
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65.8
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5.5
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PO
67
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2590
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Clover Flat
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71.9
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6.1
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PW
33
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2925
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Pueblo
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78.4
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6.5
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P
33
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3425
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Hipass
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84.5
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6.1
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PY
45
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3660
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Jacumba
Train Order
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92.9
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8.4
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PW
10
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2830
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Titus
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94.0
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1.1
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PO
37
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2757
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Carriso Gorge
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100.7
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6.7
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P
19
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2380
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Tunnel 15 Spur
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102.3
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1.6
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P
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..
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Dos Cabezas
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109.7
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7.4
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PW
72
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1670
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Sugar Loaf
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117.7
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8.0
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P
36
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790
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Coyote Wells
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122.5
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4.8
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PWOY
85
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290
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Plaster City
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130.0
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7.5
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P
62
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40
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Marea
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131.7
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1.7
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P
73
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27
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Dixieland
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134.4
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2.7
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73
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-10
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Seeley
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139.8
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5.4
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P
97
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-44
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Aspara
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141.6
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1.8
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P
34
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-46
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Wilsie
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145.1
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3.5
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15
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-47
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Train Order - Register
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148.1
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3.0
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Yard
KBPWY
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-49
Connection to the Southern PacificCalexico Sub of the Los Angeles Division
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