Story by Railroad author John Schmale
Email John Schmale: [email protected]
Hi June,
I am sending the two Tunitas Ocean Shore Railway photos as jpegs. I hope they open alright. The one of the trestle missing it’s north end was from about 1938.
The photo of the Tunitas depot dates from the same time period. I recall during the late 1960s seeing the ruins of the depot after the fire. It was a great loss to me as a railroad fan. The photos are from my collection via Rudy Brandt. Rudy Brandt or Robert McFarland took the photos.
Regards,
John Schmale, author of Arcadia book: Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad
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Story by Angelo Misthos
Hi, John. Thanks very much for the Tunitas Long Bridge and station
photos–which opened up fine. I remember the station and its loading
platform, but didn’t go down to take pictures or examine it more closely–I
had only a box camera during those Depression days and don’t think I had it
with me. I think the station had galvanized siding, or maybe just the roof.
As I drove by with my friend (who’d borrowed his brother’s Model A Ford )
on our way to Santa Cruz, all that remained of the trestle was on the South
side up to about the first x-shaped reinforcements between bents. I was
driving and had just gotten my driver’s license at age 16; this places the
year as 1939. Since the photo you sent dates to about 1938, this jibes
with my hunch that the trestle was being dismantled from the north end,
though
I don’t recall seeing any such activity or equipment as we went by. Angelo