Amazing bit of history there...also no graffiti too!
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Excellent photo of a very neat train order office and location
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Could you tell me what the comment entails? I love the caboose, the period car and the typically smoky SP geeps, but what does 'The second message is still on the triangle.' mean? Where is it? Sorry to seem higgorant, but we share the same language, but we are an ocean apart!
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Jez, I refer to some other pictures to this Hiland Train order caboose: see also ID No's 297759, 312240, 310047,
313920, 327258, 331853, 338653 and 348653.
The caboose served as office for the Train Order operator at Hiland.
Here the comment of an insider: The Train Order Operator received his instructions from the dispatcher located in downtown Los Angeles at the Pacific Electric building. For the first few years the Colton Cutoff was operated by train orders and retired cabooses (with their ends painted white so approaching trains would not mistake them for an active caboose) were placed at several sidings between Palmdale and West Colton.
John Wiesmann
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