Buttonwillow to Olig

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The McKittrick Branch

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The "last" road crossing of the McKittrick Branch is still guarded by a lone crossbuck. This is in Buttonwillow at Buttonwillow Drive. Photo by Bill Steck, October 2005.

ICC Abandonment Filings

SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
Docket Number: 12633	Date: 11/7/1939	Section: 1
Application of Southern Pacific Railroad Company to abandon operation of portion of so-called McKittrick Branch owned by Southern Pacific Railroad Company, near McKittrick, Olig, Kern County, Calif, a distance of 2 miles, together with all sidings, spur tracks and appurtenances.
Length: 2 miles	Citation:

SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
Docket Number: 20965	Date: 1/6/1960	Section: 1(18)
App. for auth. to aband. that portion of the McKittrick Branch (San Joaquin Div'n) betw. M.P. 347.000 at or near Buttonwillow, and the end of said branch at M.P. 361.048 at or near McKittrick, a distance of approx. 14.048 mi. together with the wye track at McKittrick, all sidings, spur tracks and appurtenances, all in Kern County, Calif.
Length: 14.048 miles	Citation:

I drive though Buttonwillow to McKittrick every day notice where the track ends in Buttonwillow heading towards McKittrick just kinds disappears in a mount of dirt on the west side of town. Trying figure out if the abandoned track followed State highway 58 present day (State highway 178 pre 1964). I found renants of an old RR bridge and track bed due south of Hwy 58 on an old dirt road about 3 miles from Lokern road. I cannot find any maps of this abandoned track.

Robert Edgar
Bakersfield, CA
6/27/2011

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For maps of the McKittrick Branch, go to the USGS historic topographic maps website and look up the "McKittrick" quadrangle and a portion of the "Buena Vista Lake" quandrangle west of Buttonwillow. In addition, the map room of the Kern County Engineering and Survey Services Dept. in Bakersfield has railroad maps of the branch.

John Sweetser
Bakersfield, CA
2/6/2012

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