Duarte to Rivas

The Duarte Branch

The abandoned railroad route between Duarte and Rivas, known as The Duarte Branch, of which .667 miles have been abandoned, was once operated in California by the San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railway and the Southern Pacific Railroad.

ICC Abandonment Filings

SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
Docket Number: 11335 Date: 9/5/1936 Section: 1
App. of Southern Pacific RR. Co. and of Southern Pacific Co. for authority to abandon a portion of so-called Durate Branch, owned by Southern Pacific RR Co. and operated by Southern Pacific Company as lessee between Durate and Rival, all in Los Angeles, County, California, together with all sidings, spur tracks and appurtenances, approximately 3520.4 feet.
Length: 0.667 miles Citation:  

Southern Pacific's Duarte Branch ran 14 miles, from Shorb, MP 487.7 on the SP Sunset Route in Alhambra to MP 501.7 near Rivas, at the west bank of the San Gabriel River near Duarte. The line was built from Los Angeles to Monrovia as the narrow-gauge San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railway in 1887, and was standard-gauged in 1892 and then purchased by SP in 1893. SP abandoned most of the line in 1941, and the section from Arcadia to Duarte became Pacific Electric Railway's "Day & Night Spur." More details on my long-under-construction website at

http://harrymarnell.net/sgvrt.htm

Harry Marnell
McKinleyville, CA
10/11/2010

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