Yard Names

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Originally posted by Bob-Fryml
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<<The J.R. DAVIS YARD in Roseville, Calif. is named after the Southern Pacific's last president. GEMCO YARD, just north of Van Nuys, honors what may still be its biggest customer, General Motors. But what about some other Espee affiliated yards like TAYLOR in Los Angeles, J-YARD in East Los Angeles, ENGLEWOOD and STRANG in Houston, and ROPER (ex-D.& R.G.W.) in Salt Lake City? What are their origins?>>

Taylor Yard is named after the Taylor Family. They donated the property to the old SP to build the yard and SP named it after them. The property was to revert back to the Taylor Family if RR operations ever ceased which did but aparently an aggrmnt was made between the SP and the family for the operations that exist there now( alot of non-RR). Taylor wasn't really an affiliated yard, it was the Main yard, consisting of A,B, C yards + the Local yard. ( where locals originated) for the Los Angeles Division. Back then that went from Santa Barbara to the north and Indio to the south.
J-Yard ( which is actually in central LA- not east LA) was originaly called Butte Street yard and was the main operating yard on the Pacific Electric Railway. When I hired out this was the yard I worked out of. All PE extra boards were located there until 1968 or so when they were moved to Taylor yard. During WWII Butte St. was the busiest yard in the LA area seeing about 4000 cars per day.
Gemco still exists... but there is no longer a General Motors plant there. (the other GM plant was located near 92nd and Alameda streets. This yard was called TWEEDY Yard, and if I am not mistaken has been obliterated.
Hope you find this history lesson interesting......


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