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The palm tree is how to get your bearings in three shots here.
Left top: Vacant lot the depot had been on until 1981, right next to the palm tree top slightly left. (2007, photo 'Bing')
Right Top: Depot in it's original spot, note palm tree behind. (1981, not my photo)
Left bottom: Note left most palm tree. Yes, it's the same one in all the shots. (2010, my photo) Depot had been turned 180°.
The Niles depot was moved originally due to the SP planning to tear it down for a new development. So in 1982 it was moved less than a 1/4 mile away to save it. The proposed development that had threatened the depot never happened and the lot, the former Niles yard, remained vacant and unused. The city acquired the land in the late 1990's and plans were put afoot to move it back. In 2009 that happened and now it hopefully has a permanent home right where it started, abet 180° from it's original orientation.
Left top: Vacant lot the depot had been on until 1981, right next to the palm tree top slightly left. (2007, photo 'Bing')
Right Top: Depot in it's original spot, note palm tree behind. (1981, not my photo)
Left bottom: Note left most palm tree. Yes, it's the same one in all the shots. (2010, my photo) Depot had been turned 180°.
The Niles depot was moved originally due to the SP planning to tear it down for a new development. So in 1982 it was moved less than a 1/4 mile away to save it. The proposed development that had threatened the depot never happened and the lot, the former Niles yard, remained vacant and unused. The city acquired the land in the late 1990's and plans were put afoot to move it back. In 2009 that happened and now it hopefully has a permanent home right where it started, abet 180° from it's original orientation.
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if that's the former s.p. line (now u.p.) near it there, i do believe i may have seen it from the capitol corridor train on my way down to and back from furcon when it (furcon, not niles, i know that's part of what's now called fremont) was in the double tree near the airport.
(in an unrelated aside, there's some guy i came across on the net, who build a monorail in his back yard that can see, and i would imagine be seen, from, bart, somewhere down towards there)
(in an unrelated aside, there's some guy i came across on the net, who build a monorail in his back yard that can see, and i would imagine be seen, from, bart, somewhere down towards there)
The Niles Monorail? I remember reading about that years ago when I was little. Was a bit inspired back then. :)
This is one of railfanning's craziest mysteries as to why they flip these depots around to face the street instead of the tracks.
What I've always heard is they don't want the public to trespass on their property.
This depot is lucky to be standing in it's original spot where a lot of them have been moved to keep them away from the wrecking ball
UP has a depot up in Magnolia Texas which celebrated it's 100th anniversary back in 2002 and it faces the mainline but is used at that time as a historical site you can't go into but you can go into the adjacent SP Bay window caboose and sit in it to relive the days of living on the railroad.
It's a neat place and it gets really neat if a train happens to roll by when you are sitting in the caboose
Depots are one of the last active memories which have yet to be torn down.
If you have one in your town or near you.. Get photos of it because who knows what it's future really is if it isn't part of a state historical society.
What I've always heard is they don't want the public to trespass on their property.
This depot is lucky to be standing in it's original spot where a lot of them have been moved to keep them away from the wrecking ball
UP has a depot up in Magnolia Texas which celebrated it's 100th anniversary back in 2002 and it faces the mainline but is used at that time as a historical site you can't go into but you can go into the adjacent SP Bay window caboose and sit in it to relive the days of living on the railroad.
It's a neat place and it gets really neat if a train happens to roll by when you are sitting in the caboose
Depots are one of the last active memories which have yet to be torn down.
If you have one in your town or near you.. Get photos of it because who knows what it's future really is if it isn't part of a state historical society.
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