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Dick Dorman's book "The Chili Line and Santa Fe, The City Different" concurs that the last train was on Sept 1, 1941. Otto Perry was on it and took a photo at the Santa De Depot (now Tomasita's Restaurant). There are none of the narrow gauge tracks left anywhere. I am in that train yard a lot and there were excavations of old inspection pits, the water tank footings and the old freight depot. No tracks hiding under the soil surface either. Dorman indicates the rail went for scrap in WWII.
The Espanola depot was about where the new 'fountain and pools' are in the Plaza by the Convento, near the current Rio Grande Restaurant, at least from the photos in Dorman's book and the maps he included.
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