Re: Heritage Square to close (Magic Mountain) - 3748
| February 17, 2015 02:45PM |
I don't have any shots of it as the restaurant, but here it is in its last use at Heritage Square, as a concession stand;
May 5, 2005. The pipe across the roof is the remains of the sprinkler system from its days as a restaurant.
And here it is leaving Heritage Square, a little after 9am on June 24, 2005;
None of the boxcar body survived the Magic Mountain rebuild in 1958, so there was no way to confirm its D&RGW number. "3748" was found on one of the truck bolsters, so that is the number that I ran with. Given that 3748 does not exist anywhere else that I know of, I am reasonably sure that the car was D&RGW 3748, but I would not be willing to bet even a small amount of money on it!
Hard to believe that it has been up at the Loop for a decade. Kind of neat that it and GLRR 15 (another ex Magic Mountain car) are in a moving train together again.
Jason Midyette
May 5, 2005. The pipe across the roof is the remains of the sprinkler system from its days as a restaurant.
And here it is leaving Heritage Square, a little after 9am on June 24, 2005;
None of the boxcar body survived the Magic Mountain rebuild in 1958, so there was no way to confirm its D&RGW number. "3748" was found on one of the truck bolsters, so that is the number that I ran with. Given that 3748 does not exist anywhere else that I know of, I am reasonably sure that the car was D&RGW 3748, but I would not be willing to bet even a small amount of money on it!
Hard to believe that it has been up at the Loop for a decade. Kind of neat that it and GLRR 15 (another ex Magic Mountain car) are in a moving train together again.
Jason Midyette
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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