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The Fair Oaks depot was on the south side of the American River, adjacent to the highway bridge across the river to the town of Fair Oaks. In 1958 my family moved to Fair Oaks and there was still a little fruit production activity in town, maybe some shipped out via the railroad? Sometime in the 60's the area from the River to Highway 50 (south) began to be developed for residential and office park use. I don't know what year the railroad no longer ran on that line, but my memory doesn't recall any active service at that time.
There was a large PCA rock crushing operation (using old gold dredge tailing piles) nearby on that side of the river but I believe all the aggregate was trucked out for freeway construction - the plant was running 24 hours a day for some years in the late 50's /early 60's.
Mike Beehler Olympia/Lacey area, WA 3/10/2012
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The aggregates operation was last run by Lone Star Industries in the mid-1970s. They did ship out rock and gravel material by rail, and had a small 4-wheeled diesel and a GE 45-ton centercab to switch cars in their facility.
lynn powell Stockton, CA 4/8/2012