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Railroad Stations of San Diego County CA Then and Now By James Price Soft Cover
The Railroad Stations of Sand Diego County: Then and Now by James N Price
Soft Cover
55 pages
Copyright 1988
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction2
Bringing the Railroad to San Diego4
The History of San Diego's Railroad Lines7
The Santa Fe Roads:7
California Southern, Central California, Southern California
The Independents That Became Part of the Spreckels Empire:10
Los Angeles and San Diego Beach
National City and Otay
Coronado Railroad
San Diego, Cuyamaca and Eastern
San Diego Southern/San Diego and Southeastern
San Diego and Arizona/Tijuana and Tecate
Railroad Station Architecture14
The Santa Fe Stations16
Carlsbad16
Del Mar18
Encinitas20
Escondido22
Fallbrook24
National City26
Oceanside*28
San Diego30
Vista32
Stations of The Spreckels Empire34
Campo34
Chula Vista*36
Jacumba38
Lakeside40
La Mesa42
La Jolla Hermosa44
Lemon Grove46
Tijuana/San Ysidro48
Tecate50
San Diego's Railroad Future52
Acknowledgements53
References54
*Just prior to printing this book, the Oceanside and Chula Vista railroad stations have been razed.
INTRODUCTION
There's something special about train stations. These buildings somehow transcend the brick, wood, and glass that define their structure. To the communities they serve, train stations represent the railroad, with its attendant nostalgia on the one hand and no-nonsense business on the other. While many fine stations have met the wrecking ball and bulldozer across the country, we are fortunate in San Diego County and the neighboring border cities of Tijuana and Tecate to have 16 buildings that serve or have served as train stations. A strong sentiment plus action and money have saved a number of these symbolic buildings. Communities have banded together to find funds to buy and physically move three stations from trackside to streetside locations. And at least a half dozen others have been spared thanks to historical preservation efforts. Three train stations have been razed in San Diego County in the past twenty-five years - Fallbrook, Oceanside, and Chula Vista.
The stations in San Diego, Del Mar, and Oceanside still bustle with daily Amtrak and freight activity. Many others lead productive second lives - from offices and museums to restaurants and gift shops. The buildings range in architecture and size from the elegant mission-style station in downtown San Diego to tiny woodframe edifices, such as La Mesa, that held little more than an agent and serviced only a handful of passengers. But they all represent the railroad in America, and they have each seen countless arrivals and departures of both trains and the people who have ridden them.
Come, then, whether an armchair traveler, a Sunday afternoon explorer, or an eager railfan to visit San Diego County's reminders of both the past and present of railroad travel. You'll be impressed and surprised as I was at the number and beauty of the railroad stations that we can still enjoy today.
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