07-10-2012, 10:55 AM
Charles Freericks, the author of the Southern California Locals book, has a blog with corrections and updates to the book at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://socallocalfreight.blogspot.com/">http://socallocalfreight.blogspot.com/</a><!-- m --> I've found the book itself so valuable that I print out the updates on the blog, cut them out of the paper, and paste them onto the relevant pages of the book -- it's that useful for a local railfan.
But then I realized that for guys who don't live in Southern California and don't want to buy the book itself, the blog with updates is free and also very useful in showing how trains actually operate, with typical numbers, schedules, and assignments. For instance,
I really like it when guys who are posting photos of their layouts tell what the jobs in the photos are actually doing, based on info like this.
But then I realized that for guys who don't live in Southern California and don't want to buy the book itself, the blog with updates is free and also very useful in showing how trains actually operate, with typical numbers, schedules, and assignments. For instance,
Quote:YWC86 Riverside Local Mon-Fri (On duty 0900. On MWF it switches ConAgra at Ice Deck. On TuTh and sometimes Wed shoves down the Riverside Industrial Lead, street running about 1000 past the 9th Street wigwag. Heads to Cascade Lumber in the old Griffin Wheel complex, and Lehigh Cement and Sigma Stretch Film on either side of Atlanta Avenue by the Moreno Valley Freeway. Finishes between 1300 and 1600. Drops train at CP Sierra. Leaves power at Riverside Avenue for YWC80.)
I really like it when guys who are posting photos of their layouts tell what the jobs in the photos are actually doing, based on info like this.