Vernon, LA county

[Russ Bellinis]

Brakie, Santa Fe had only 6 Rs1s and 1 Rs3. They had no Rs2s. The Rs1s and 3s were equipped with steam generators, so they were used in passenger coach yard service, but I think Rs1 #2394 used in San Diego for many years, not only did coach yard switching but also handled industrial switching duties as well. Sand Diego was at the end of a branch line from Los Angeles, and really had a small coach yard, I think only two or three tracks at the San Diego station. The only passenger service By the Santa e in San Diego were the San Diegans, and I think the maintainence was all done in Los Angeles. I'm not sure how much coach yard switching work was even done in San Diego. #2394 started out in a zebra stripe scheme and finished it's career in the blue & yellow book ends scheme. The Santa Fe had 62 Rsd-4s or Rsd-5s that were used for switching and locals in areas where they had very light rail. Six units had steam generators. I don't know if those 6 were used for back up on local passenger service or coach yard switching. They also had 34 of the Alco S-2s that were used extensively in local switching all over the system. These of course were the units that the LAJ loved until Santa Fe decided to get rid of the Alcos and forced the LAJ to use the Cf7's.

Off topic, have you looked at Bob Chapparo's yahoo group on citrus Modeling in Southern Cal? There is a lot of interesting information on that site.

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