Remnants: (Was 62 Trafford - repaving)

[Kenneth and Tracie Josephson]

Jim Holland wrote:

>         A classic case was Los Angeles.  Within weeks after abandonment the
> streets were tarred - not dug up to remove rails, simply tarred - but
> the wire was still up.  Saw this myself after I got out of boot in June
> of 1963.
>

I forget where (perhaps a stretch of Pico Boulevard) in L.A., but in 1968, there was an area
where the tracks were still intact and the cross spans still up...five years after
abandonment! The tracks I could understand remaining, but the cross spans? Where the line had
turned, the tracks were asphalted over, but the cross spans continued down the cross street
toward downtown. Ken J.