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67-429: Taylor Yard was established in 1911 on the previous site of Taylor Feed Mill (from which the yard gets its name). It was rebuilt in 1949. By the 1950s, Taylor Yard was the central node in the freight network into and out of Los Angeles for Southern Pacific, as the classification yard had grown in complexity and size concurrent with increases both manufacturing and the overall population of Los Angeles. The Classification Yard

134-664: A hostler moving an engine to an ash pit to remove the detritus of burned wood or coal. The locomotive's tender would be refilled with fuel, water, and sand, and the engine would be placed above an inspection pit so that workers could inspect it for any maintenance needs, like wear on its brake shoes and wheels. The engine's many moving parts would also be thoroughly lubricated, although this meant that engines typically required frequent cleanings to remove old lubricating fluid along with dirt and anything else that stuck. At larger 24-hour North American roundhouses, steam locomotives would often be turned around and made ready for service within

201-487: A 42-acre site (0.17 km) acquired by the city in 2017 for $ 60 million. The park is intended to be provide recreational park space, wetlands and other amenities, and has been described by Mayor Eric Garcetti as the "crown jewel" of a broader ongoing initiative to restore 11 mi (18 km) of the Los Angeles River. The park is expected to be completed by 2028, in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics . In July 2019,

268-488: A brand new EMD SD70ACe locomotive, Union Pacific 1996 , as part of a new heritage program. It was the final unit in UP's Heritage Series of locomotives, and was painted in a color scheme inspired by the "Daylight" and "Black Widow" schemes. Railway roundhouse A railway roundhouse is a building with a circular or semicircular shape used by railways for servicing and storing locomotives . Traditionally, though not always

335-453: A few hours of arrival. However, locomotives with major issues or in need of semi-regular maintenance required additional time. Larger roundhouses were adequately staffed with boilermakers , blacksmiths , and pipefitters so that this work could be accomplished on-site; only the most extensive work, such as major unexpected repairs or scheduled major maintenance, required the transport of locomotives to specialized backshops . The location of

402-750: A few private and third-sector railways. One Japanese roundhouse that remains intact is at the Kyoto Railway Museum . The museum comprises a number of structures classified by the Japanese Government as ' Important Cultural Properties '. One of these structures is the museum roundhouse, the oldest reinforced concrete car shed extant in Japan. The museum roundhouse in Wolsztyn , in western Poland, continued to supply steam locomotives for regular national rail services as of 2011. The Roundhouse at Entroncamento

469-775: A locomotive servicing facility by the same railroad that constructed it is the Long Island engine house in Queens , New York . The largest surviving roundhouse by interior square footage is owned and operated by the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer , North Carolina . It was built by the Southern Railway in 1924 and contains 37 stalls. The B&O Railroad Museum complex in Baltimore, Maryland contains

536-769: A museum. The German Museum of Technology shows a doubled roundhouse. The former Budapest North Depot in Budapest is home to a railway museum since 2000. At its height, there were four railway roundhouses in Indonesia; three of which survive: the roundhouse near Lempuyangan station in Yogyakarta , the one in Tebing Tinggi station in North Sumatera , and a former roundhouse inside Jatibarang sugar mill in Central Java which

603-675: A pair of emerging technology companies. The Canadian National Railways roundhouse at the Turcot Yard in Montreal, built in 1906, was the largest ever built in Canada. Its demolition in 1962 to make way for the Turcot Interchange illustrated a profound change in transportation habits across North America. The Steam Whistle Brewing brewery in Toronto , Ontario is located in the building known as

670-463: A passenger train and send scores and hundreds to instant death. There are many Southern Pacific locomotives still in revenue service with railroads such as the Union Pacific Railroad , and many older and special locomotives have been donated to parks and museums, or continue operating on scenic or tourist railroads. Most of the engines now in use with Union Pacific have been "patched", where

737-413: A private workshop, may previously have been laid out in a radial pattern like a roundhouse. The Roundhouse , Chalk Farm , London was built in 1847, but was too small for its function within 20 years; it is now an arts center and concert venue. Barrow Hill Engine Shed , which is home to a number of preserved locomotives is still in use. It is estimated that there were about 3,000 roundhouse sites in

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804-573: 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 . The Big Four had, in 1861, created the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) It later acquired the Central Pacific Railroad in 1885 through leasing. By 1900,

871-586: A roundhouse at Mercer . Norway has had many roundhouses, and many still survive. Examples include Voss, Ål, Kongsberg on the Bergen line. Hamar, Otta and Oppdal on the Dovre line, Lodalen - Oslo (covered) and Egersund on the Sørland line. A roundhouse is known to exist at Manpo -Jian. Roundhouses were a significant feature of Japanese railways . Many smaller roundhouses are still in use today as fully operational buildings on

938-461: A telecommunications network with a state-of-the-art microwave and fiber optic backbone. This telecommunications network became part of Sprint , a company whose name came from the acronym for Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony. 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

1005-426: Is an extensive infrastructure consisting of thirty onsite wells, twenty-two of which are located in the active yard, to monitor the quantity and quality of groundwater on-site. 34°5′55.36″N 118°14′16.96″W  /  34.0987111°N 118.2380444°W  / 34.0987111; -118.2380444 Southern Pacific Transportation Company The Southern Pacific ( reporting mark SP ) (or Espee from

1072-543: Is believed to have been the Boston and Maine's East Somerville roundhouse outside Boston, today the site of the Boston Engine Terminal . It was built with stalls 112 feet (34.1 m) long, 90 feet (27 m) of open space between the roundhouse and the turntable, and a 110-foot (33.5 m) turntable, giving it a diameter of 525 feet (160 m). However, several roundhouses were enlarged over time to become larger than

1139-796: Is home to the Portuguese National Railway Museum . The Uster roundhouse in Uster . Changhua Roundhouse in Changhua City built in 1922 is the only surviving roundhouse in Taiwan and is still in use as of 2022. Probably the first railway roundhouse, designed by Robert Stephenson , was built in 1837 in Birmingham , at Curzon Street station . Its central turntable, inspection pits, and an exterior wall were uncovered in March 2020 during work to build

1206-650: Is now used as a mini railway museum. There are two roundhouses at Turin , still in use by the FS. There is one in Rome. There were three roundhouses in New Zealand. Elmer Lane in Greymouth was one of the largest and most famous roundhouses in New Zealand and had up to 17 total berths. The last remains were demolished in the 1990's. None of the original roundhouses survive however Mainline Steam as part of their Mercer project will build

1273-415: Is the only building of the site that has not been demolished. It has been relocated three times. Soil mapping reveals four areas of potential concern (AOPCs) which exhibit high concentrations of lead , hydrocarbons , arsenic , and antimony . The first AOPC area surrounds the former diesel turntable , the second envelops the former fueling and sanding tracks, the third sits along the southern portion of

1340-789: The Constitution of the United States . The Southern Pacific Railroad was replaced by the Southern Pacific Company and assumed the railroad operations of the Southern Pacific Railroad. In 1929, Southern Pacific/Texas and New Orleans operated 13,848 route-miles not including Cotton Belt, whose purchase of the Golden State Route circa 1980 nearly doubled its size to 3,085 miles (4,965 km), bringing total SP/SSW mileage to around 13,508 miles (21,739 km). The T&NO

1407-541: The HS2 line. Another was built in 1839 at Derby , England by the North Midland Railway . A guidebook of the time says: The engine-house is a polygon of sixteen sides, and 190 feet (58 m) in diameter, lighted from a dome-shaped roof, of the height of 50 feet (15.2 m). It contains 16 lines of rails, radiating from a single turn-table in the centre: the engines, on their arrival, are taken in there, placed upon

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1474-1147: The John Street Roundhouse , a former Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive repair facility. The Canadian Pacific 374 steam engine is on display at the former CPR Drake Street Roundhouse in Vancouver , now the Roundhouse Community Centre designed by VIA Architecture. The Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Roundhouse in Victoria , British Columbia Several roundhouses exist in France; two exist at Chambéry , built between 1906 and 1910. Another two exist at Avignon , and three exist at Lyon with other roundhouses being at Bordeaux , Strasbourg , Dijon , Bayonne , Colmar , Paris , Marseille , Clermont-Ferrand , Mulhouse , Nevers , Toulon , Valence , and Saint Etienne . Several roundhouses survive in Germany, The roundhouses at Augsburg and Freilassing are home to

1541-520: The St. Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt, reporting marks SSW), El Paso and Southwestern Railroad , the Northwestern Pacific Railroad at 328 miles (528 km), the 1,331-mile (2,142 km) Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico , and a variety of 3 ft ( 914 mm ) narrow-gauge routes. The SP was known for its mammoth back shops at Sacramento, California , which was one of

1608-546: The US and Canada no longer exist, lie in ruins, or have been repurposed; however, a small number of them still exist and continue to operate in their intended capacity as locomotive storing and servicing facilities. Of the roughly 3,000 roundhouses that once existed in North America, fewer than 200 roundhouses are extant in the US as of 2010 ; in Canada, none exist east of Montreal . Below is

1675-710: The 100 Acre Partnership, and will be funded by grants from the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy . Officials with the City of Los Angeles, the State Parks Department, and the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority selected a final design in 2023. The State of California owns the G1 parcel, colloquially called the "Bowtie Parcel" on a plot of 18 acres (0.073 km), immediately north of G2, along

1742-474: The 1950s as railroads converted from steam to diesel-electric power, which needed far less maintenance. Some were converted to service diesel engines , while others were used as storage or sold to other parties. Several dozen roundhouses stand today in active use by modern railroads and museums, although the majority of those still standing have been abandoned. An average of two per year are demolished or otherwise destroyed. The only roundhouse still in use as

1809-400: The 1950s. Southern Pacific closed the terminal on November 14, 1985, citing declining business. Workers and union leaders cited a merger plan between Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Railway , which had been sharply criticized by the U.S. Justice Department, but endorsed by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The Southern Pacific closed the facilities and bulldozed the site in 1988. In 1991,

1876-553: The 1960s for operations in a particular direction. Turntables allowed locomotives or other rolling stock to be turned around for the return journey, and roundhouses, designed to radiate around the turntables, were built to service and store these locomotives. Most modern diesel and electric locomotives can run equally well in either direction, and many are push-pull trains with control cabs at each end. In addition, railroads often use multiple locomotives to pull trains, and even with locomotives that have distinct front and rear ends,

1943-667: The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad to the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, allowing the combined Rio Grande Industries railroad system to use the Southern Pacific name due to its brand recognition in the railroad industry and with customers of both the Southern Pacific Transportation Company and the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. A long time Southern Pacific subsidiary, the St. Louis Southwestern Railway

2010-565: The Los Angeles River. As the river passes Taylor Yard, it flows through the Glendale Narrows . This portion of the river has an unlined channel bottom due to the high groundwater table. The soft-bottom includes riparian vegetation, open water, and sand bars, which are supported by year-round flows. Among the most iconic features of the site was the Roundhouse and the Dayton Tower. The Dayton

2077-501: The SP logo on the front is replaced by a Union Pacific shield, and new numbers are applied over the old numbers with a Union Pacific sticker, however some engines remain in Southern Pacific "bloody nose" paint. Over the past couple years, most of the patched units were repainted into the full Union Pacific scheme and as of January 2019, less than ten units remain in their old paint. Among the more notable equipment is: On August 19, 2006, UP unveiled

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2144-565: The SP shops there, new shops and yards were built six miles south of the city at Bayshore. The Alhambra Shops in Los Angeles consisted of 10 buildings and employed 1,500 but declined in importance when the Taylor Yard was built in 1930. The SP was the defendant in the landmark 1886 United States Supreme Court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad , which is often interpreted as having established certain corporate rights under

2211-611: The Southern Pacific Transportation Company to be taken over by the Union Pacific Corporation ; the parent Southern Pacific Rail Corporation (formerly Rio Grande Industries), the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, the St. Louis Southwestern Railway and the SPCSL Corporation were also taken over by the Union Pacific Corporation. The Union Pacific Corporation merged the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad,

2278-584: The Southern Pacific system was a major railroad system incorporating many smaller companies, such as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad . It extended from New Orleans through Texas to El Paso , across New Mexico and through Tucson , to Los Angeles , through most of California , including San Francisco and Sacramento . Central Pacific lines extended east across Nevada to Ogden, Utah , and reached north through Oregon to Portland . Other subsidiaries eventually included

2345-409: The Southern Pacific, the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, was founded in 1969 and assumed control of the Southern Pacific system. The Southern Pacific Transportation Company was acquired in 1996 by the Union Pacific Corporation and merged with their Union Pacific Railroad . The Southern Pacific legacy founded hospitals in San Francisco , Tucson , and Houston . In the 1970s, it also founded

2412-480: The St. Louis Southwestern Railway and the SPCSL Corporation into their Union Pacific Railroad but did not merge the Southern Pacific Transportation Company into the Union Pacific Railroad. Instead, the Union Pacific Corporation merged the Union Pacific Railroad into the Southern Pacific Transportation Company on February 1, 1998; the Southern Pacific Transportation Company became the surviving railroad and at

2479-458: The Sunset Limited. Well known were the Southern Pacific's unique " cab-forward " steam locomotives. These were 4-8-8-2 , 2-8-8-2 , and 4-6-6-2 (rebuilt from 2-6-6-2 ) locomotives set up to run in reverse, with the tender attached to the smokebox end of the locomotive. Southern Pacific had a number of snow sheds in mountain terrain, and locomotive crews nearly asphyxiated from smoke in

2546-534: The Taylor Yard Bikeway and Pedestrian Bridge to connect Taylor Yard with Elysian Valley on the west side of the Los Angeles River. The 400 feet (120 m) long and 18 feet (5.5 m) wide bikeway and pedestrian bridge opened March 2022. The bridge is part of Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan. The $ 20.8 million project has been wholly funded by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority . The Taylor Yard G2 River Park will be built on

2613-536: The United States, although at least three times that many were built between 1840 and 1950. Many were demolished and rebuilt as locomotives became increasingly large. Several were built around 1840 for the earliest railroads. It is likely that the first in the US was built by the Baltimore and Ohio at Mt. Clare (Baltimore), although this cannot be confirmed because early records have been lost. Early roundhouses, especially those built in cold climates, were fully enclosed, with

2680-438: The banks of the Los Angeles River. There are plans to convert this parcel into phase 2 of the phase two of Rio de Los Angeles State Park . The state currently uses the space for public art programming, and the site also hosts several site-specific installations, and numerous pop-up events, in collaboration with a local nonprofit, Clockshop. Taylor Yard Transit Village is a mixed-use development built on 24 acres (0.097 km) at

2747-541: The cab. After a number of engineers began running their engines in reverse (pushing the tender), Southern Pacific asked Baldwin Locomotive Works to produce cab-forward designs. No other North American railroad ordered cab-forward locomotives. Narrow Gauge Locomotives Until May 1, 1971 (when Amtrak took over long-distance passenger operations in the United States), the Southern Pacific at various times operated

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2814-424: The case today, these buildings contained or were adjacent to a turntable . Early steam locomotives normally traveled forwards only. Although reverse operations capabilities were soon built into locomotive mechanisms, the controls were normally optimized for forward travel, and the locomotives often could not operate as well in reverse. Some passenger cars , such as observation cars , were also designed as late as

2881-400: The city announced 3 design proposals for the park. A viewing platform will be built to enable the public to view changes to the river habitat prior to the 2028 opening. The Paseo del Río project (Spanish for "river walk") will be an approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) long riverfront walkway constructed on Taylor Yard, along the banks of the Los Angeles River. The project is being overseen by

2948-540: The country was anchored by a roundhouse, especially if a railroad owned more than a few locomotives. The largest concentration of roundhouses was in Chicago , with over 75 in and around the metropolitan region during the early 1900s. Other cities where multiple railroads terminated or were major division points also had over 20 roundhouses, such as Boston , Cleveland , St. Louis , Sioux City , Indianapolis , and Cincinnati . The largest "as-built" roundhouse ever constructed

3015-583: The county acquired the eastern portion of the site. In 2017, the city acquired G2 parcel, the northern portion of Taylor Yard. In 2003, the California Department of Parks and Recreation began working with the community to develop the Rio de Los Angeles State Park . The first phase of the park, built on 279 acres (1.13 km), was completed in April 2007. In June 2019, the City of Los Angeles began construction on

3082-449: The engines at opposing ends of a locomotive "consist" (a group of locomotives coupled together and controlled as a single unit) can be aligned so they face opposite directions. With such a setup, trains needing to reverse direction can use a technique known as a "run around," in which the engines are uncoupled from the train, pull around it on an adjacent track or siding, and reattach at the other end. The engineer changes operating ends from

3149-435: The few in the country equipped to design and build locomotives on a large scale. Sacramento was among the top ten largest shops in the US, occupying 200 acres of land with dozens of buildings and an average employment of 3,000, peaking at 7,000 during World War II. Other major shop sites were located at Ogden, Utah ; Houston, Texas ; and Algiers, New Orleans . After the 1906 earthquake destroyed much of San Francisco, including

3216-526: The first roundhouse is thought to be Birmingham . England, built in 1837. Some turntables that were built in earlier days rapidly became unsuitable for the longer locomotives introduced. For example, the Roundhouse in London was built in 1846 to turn around steam locomotives on the line to Birmingham, but newer locomotives were too long within ten years—the building has been preserved and used for other purposes over

3283-429: The following named passenger trains . Trains with names in italicized bold text still operate under Amtrak: The man or men who committed this horrible deed near Glendale may not be anarchists, technically speaking. But if they are sane men, moved by motive, they are such stuff as anarchists are made of. If the typical anarchist conceived that a railroad corporation should be terrorized, he would not scruple to wreck

3350-509: The former roundhouse, and the fourth is located near the diesel shops. "Results of environmental investigations conducted at Taylor Yard to date indicate that subsurface soils in the Active Yard generally consist of fill material extending from the ground surface to a depth of approximately seven feet below ground surface (bgs), and sands and silty sands with minor discontinuous clayey sands extending from seven to 35 feet bgs." Additionally, there

3417-472: The great dieselisation era of the 1940s and 1950s, many roundhouses have been demolished or put to other uses, but a few still stand and remain in use on the railroads. Early roundhouses were too small for later locomotives. The buildings' peculiar shapes can make it challenging to adapt them to new uses, but they can also be visually pleasing. Roundhouses were originally constructed to service steam locomotives. In North America, regular daily serving began with

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3484-561: The locomotive's smokebox silver (almost white in appearance), with graphite colored sides, for visibility. Some passenger steam locomotives bore the Daylight scheme, named after the trains they hauled, most of which had the word Daylight in the train name. The most famous "Daylight" locomotives were the GS-4 steam locomotives . The most famous Daylight-hauled trains were the Coast Daylight and

3551-614: The one in Boston ; for example, the Union Pacific roundhouse in Cheyenne , Wyoming was lengthened in 1930 to accommodate the new 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" articulated locomotives being delivered. After the expansion it was 560 feet (170 m) in diameter and constituted a near full-circle. A portion of this roundhouse still stands and is used by Union Pacific to store heritage rolling stock. The vast majority of roundhouses were torn down beginning in

3618-484: The original Midland Counties Railway workshop. The new site was opened in September 2009. Tours can be arranged through Derby Tourist Information Centre . In Leeds , Thomas Grainger designed the roundhouse near Armley Gyratory that was opened in 1847, with accommodation for 20 trains from the Leeds & Thirsk Railway . It was operational until 1904. The Fenton, Murray and Jackson building in Leeds (1831–1843),

3685-428: The original locomotive to the one on the opposite end of the locomotive consist. Railroad terminals also use features such as balloon loops and wyes (Commonwealth: triangle ) to reverse the orientation of railroad equipment. Because of the advent of these practices, modern roundhouses are frequently not round and are simply large buildings used for servicing locomotives. Like much other railroad terminology, however,

3752-477: The pruning of branch lines. On October 13, 1988, the Southern Pacific Transportation Company (including its subsidiary, St. Louis Southwestern Railway) was taken over by Rio Grande Industries , the parent company that controlled the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (reporting marks D&RGW). Rio Grande Industries did not merge the Southern Pacific Transportation Company and the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad together, but transferred direct ownership of

3819-412: The railroad initials) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States . The system was operated by various companies under the names Southern Pacific Railroad , Southern Pacific Company and Southern Pacific Transportation Company . The original Southern Pacific began in 1865 as a land holding company. The last incarnation of

3886-440: The restored railcar maintenance roundhouse of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad , originally built in 1884. The roundhouse in Aurora, Illinois , constructed in 1856, was purchased and restored by NFL football player Walter Payton in 1995. After Payton's death, the roundhouse was occupied by a micro-brewery and renamed Two Brothers Roundhouse , with a plaque mounted in Payton's honor. The vast majority of roundhouses built in

3953-402: The same time the Union Pacific Corporation renamed the Southern Pacific Transportation Company to Union Pacific Railroad. Thus, the Southern Pacific Transportation Company became, and is still operating as, the current incarnation of the Union Pacific Railroad. Like most railroads, the SP painted most of its steam locomotives black during the 20th century, but after 1945 SP painted the front of

4020-442: The southern end of Taylor Yard, immediately southeast of Rio de Los Angeles State Park. The development comprises rental apartments, senior housing, homes, commercial space and greenspace. In spring 2020, a developer proposed the construction of a mixed-used complex immediately north of the Bowtie Parcel, comprising 419 multi-family residential units, commercial space, and a multi-story parking structure. Taylor Yard sits adjacent to

4087-446: The structure has retained its traditional name. The alternative term engine-house encompasses both semi-circular and rectangular structures and broadly describes all buildings intended for storage and servicing of locomotives. Shops or workshops are buildings containing hoists and heavy machinery capable of major repairs beyond routine servicing. Some roundhouses include shop facilities internally or in adjoining buildings. Since

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4154-426: The turn-table, and wheeled into any stall that may be vacant. Each of the 16 stalls will hold two, or perhaps more, engines. This roundhouse narrowly escaped demolition when the works closed down, and was classified as a listed building . It was restored in 2010, being converted into a brand new site for Derby College , with a new addition called the 'Stephenson Building' including the other survival of demolition –

4221-428: The turntable as well as the stalls under cover. Once locomotives became too large to fit in these structures, they were torn down and replaced with "doughnut"-shaped structures that surrounded an open turntable. Although some roundhouses used by Class 1 railroads were built as a full-circle with as many as 52 stalls, the vast majority were only part of a circle with 12 or fewer stalls. Nearly every locomotive terminal in

4288-445: The years. Valley Heights roundhouse , 75 kilometres (47 mi) west of Sydney , New South Wales , is the oldest surviving roundhouse in Australia, and has been preserved as a railway museum. The London Roundhouse Project London, Ontario , Canada, is an extensive renovation of the Michigan Central Railroad steam locomotive repair shop which was built in 1887. It is to become the new home of Ellipsis Digital and Engine SevenFour,

4355-546: Was also marketed under the Southern Pacific name. Along with the addition of the SPCSL Corporation route from Chicago to St. Louis, the former mainline of the Chicago, Missouri and Western Railroad that once belonged to the Alton Railroad , the total length of the D&RGW/SP/SSW system was 15,959 miles (25,684 km). Rio Grande Industries was later renamed Southern Pacific Rail Corporation . By 1996, years of financial problems had dropped Southern Pacific's mileage to 13,715 miles (22,072 km). The financial problems caused

4422-428: Was fully merged into the SP in 1961. In 1969, the Southern Pacific Transportation Company was established and took over the Southern Pacific Company; this Southern Pacific railroad is the last incarnation and was at times called "Southern Pacific Industries", though "Southern Pacific Industries" is not the official name of the company. By the 1980s, route mileage had dropped to 10,423 miles (16,774 km), mainly due to

4489-430: Was split into three operational zones, "with the receiving unit at the west end, then the classification unit, and at the east end the departure unit." Competition from the trucking industry and the closure of American manufacturing plants led to the decline of the Yard after the 1950s. In 1983, an average of 25,000 railroad cars moved through Taylor Yard and 1,200 workers were employed in its operations, down from 5,000 in

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