Santa Fe remnant (now Metrolink), Arcadia-Glendora, CA

[MP57313]

I explored some of this line today. At some point the MTA Gold Line might be extended along this segments, but if that ever happens it is years away. Metrolink runs passenger trains as far west as Arcadia only for New Year's/Rose Parade.

The line is still in service, and several sections still have lineside poles/wires, and many old lineside signals still in place (though I don't know if they are "live"). I can't imagine there ever being more than one train running at the same time these days. Only near the end of track at Arcadia has Metrolink installed its standard three-light signal.

There are a few large girder bridges over highways along the route, but only the one in Azusa still clearly shows the Santa Fe herald. (The abandoned section in the median of I-210 also has SF heralds on the bridge over Michillinda Ave.)

[Anonymous]

I see this line regularly. In Arcadia, there is a private railcar on a siding about a half mile from the end of track. They also still have the old-style crossing gates with two strips of wood coming together (like in the Lionel catalog), not like the newer, one-board, gates.

[DaveBr]

Okay you engineers,Is that one engine with the Sante fe car and caboose still across from Carpenters Drive in?If you remember it's just west of the pacific electric tracks on
on Hunington dr.Can the horses still go up Double Drive(Santa Anita)? " remnant of Arcadia. '

[MP57313]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainjunky29
In Arcadia, there is a private railcar on a siding about a half mile from the end of track. They also still have the old-style crossing gates

The private car is SP 151, Pine Bluff, and Amtrak express (?) car 1413 is there also; both cars have solidly rusted wheels. Amazing the crossing gates on Santa Anita Ave. are still there because they are past the bumper post in the main line, and a few yards of each rail have been removed.

As for the other post, I don't know of any display and the PE is long gone...though there is a short bridge across Santa Anita Wash near Santa Clara St. and the extended-stay hotel. Could that be a PE bridge (now used by the flood control district?)

[vsmith]

This section of old ATSF track is slated to become the Gold Line extension all the way out to Claremont where it can connect with the MetroLink commuter train lines all the way out to San Bernardino. This will probably occur sometime in the next 5 years if all goes well. It will most likely have to parallel the remnants of the old mainline that still service the Miller Brewery in Irwindale. I dont know what will become of the old railcars in Santa Anita.