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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Two slide-views of Taylor Yards in 1954.
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I wasn't sure this was really 1954 until I spotted that car parked by the second tower. (red arrow below)
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-also note the Purina owned grain elevator (my hometown in Illinois had a Purina elevator as well)-easy to spot with the checkerboard paint job.
Then I found this second slide with numerous parked cars. (I take it they're railroad worker's cars)
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I believe the large 'square' building on the hilltop/middle distance is part of Forest Lawn Glendale. |
The Purena building was actually the Taylor Milling Co. who donated the land to the Southern Pacific to build the yard. That why it was called "Taylor Yard".
Paul C. Koehler