Bakersfield, CA: Santa Fe Railyard, Roundhouse, Icing Machines and Depot

Railyard: (Satellite)

Roundhouse: (Satellite, they did a good job of removing the foundation.)

Depot: (Satellite?)

Many of the tracks in the railyard are still left.

Street View, Mar 2022

Robert Hogan posted
Bakersfield, CA roundhouse on January 5, 1969.  Nice pair of GP30's on the left and another in the center.

Tim Starr posted
An illustration of the Santa Fe's concrete, 35-stall roundhouse at Bakersfield CA just after it was built in the spring of 1907. It states that the one in San Bernardino was built with the same blueprints. (Railway Age)

Brian M. Taggart commented on Robert's post
I took this shot at the roundhouse on January 1st 1976. The S-2s were all gone, replaced by S-4s (which were all stored), the GP30s were still around (although renumbered), and a number of CF-7s have crept in and will sadly replace all those S-4s.

Bill Rettberg Jr. posted
Bakersfield service facility in 1977.
Daniel C Carroll Jr. shared

2 of 3 photos posted by Robert Hogan with the comment: "January 5, 1969 found ALCo PA's #64 & #71 on the whisker tracks at Bakersfield, CA.  ATSF was testing the PA's on freights over the loop."

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Comments on the above post

Bob Chaparro posted two photos with the comment:

Bakersfield Icing Machines

Photos posted by Mark McGowan on the Facebook Kern County of Old group.

These were taken at Bakersfield in 1962.

Bob Chaparro

Moderator

Railroad Citrus Industry Modeling Group

https://groups.io/g/RailroadCitrusIndustryModelingGroup

Tom Cockle: These machines were the reason that Santa Fe’s safety-minded “reversed hatches” were changed to the somewhat less safe standard, flat-lying hatches. It was easier to move the icing machines along if the hatches laid down flat, but this meant that now workers dealing with opening and closing the hatches were closer to the car ends.

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Bob commented on his post
A number of Santa Fe's reefers kept their reverse opening hatch covers right through the end of the ice bunker reefer era. There are still photos and a couple of videos showing icing machines working around this inconvenience.

Robert Hogan posted

1954/55 Gosford Quad @ 24,000

Bob Chaparro posted

Santa Fe Bakersfield Yard (Plot)

A post by Mark Mcgowan on the Facebook Kern County of Old group.

Sorry, no date.

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA