. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ad runs from San Diego City to LaJolla Beach and caves, passing throughOld Town, where the old Mission at SanDiego (the first of the old California mis-sions) was built. It was founded byPadre Junepero Serra in 1769. The oldpalms, and the home of Ramona, as de-scribed in Helen Hunt Jacksons famousbook, are situated there. From here theline continues on to Pacific Beach andto La Jolla Beach, where the famous cavesare. These caves and rocks are a peculiarformation of sandstone, that extend inan
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ad runs from San Diego City to LaJolla Beach and caves, passing throughOld Town, where the old Mission at SanDiego (the first of the old California mis-sions) was built. It was founded byPadre Junepero Serra in 1769. The oldpalms, and the home of Ramona, as de-scribed in Helen Hunt Jacksons famousbook, are situated there. From here theline continues on to Pacific Beach andto La Jolla Beach, where the famous cavesare. These caves and rocks are a peculiarformation of sandstone, that extend inand out, in grotesque shapes along theshore. The La Jolla Line has two little loco-motives. No. I, as shown in the photo-graph, is a Baldwin 0-4-2. and if I amnot mistaken, was built in 1888. as was September, 1909. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 383 stated on the plate in front of the engine,and is a dandy puller. The line has quitea number of flat and box cars, and fiveor six open passenger cars, as shown inthe picture, and about a dozen little closedpassenger cars. These little cars I noticed. FIG. I, BALDWIN 0-4-2 ENGINE. were built by Hammond & Co., San Fran-cisco, Cal., in 1888. The La JoUa Line also has two new-gasoline motor cars of the Lhiion Pacifictype, which ply regularly between SanDiego City and La Jolla Beach as does thesteam dummy. They were built by theMcKeen Motor Car of Omaha, andthey are regular wind-splitters. The depotat San .Diego City is situated at the footof C street, near the Santa Fe station,and the companys offices are located atFourth and C streets. I noticed that there was an electric carmarked Los Angeles to San Diego BeacliRy. No. I, and that there were two trol-ley lines stretched above the tracks forquite a distance from San Diego City,en line to La Jolla, and I have no doubtthat in the near future the La Jolla linewill become an electric inter-urban railway. I was told that the road was built in1888, and was first known as the San
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