The first plan is the module that will depict "Tarragona Street." The track that runs down the middle of this street is the spur that branches off the CSX main just north of East Jackson St. and runs down the middle of Tarragona St. for nine blocks where it crosses Main St. into the yard at the Port of Pensacola. This module will capture a couple of these blocks between Garden St. and East Intendencia St. where there are locations for two rail customers.
One siding crosses the sidewalk on the east side of Tarragona St. between Garden St. and East Romana St. and serves W.R. Taylor & Co., a local brickyard.
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I have a few other photos of this siding made before I had a digital camera so I will have to scan them to add later. I did find a few shots of this location online. A couple of cars spotted on the siding can be seen here: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=735495. The next view shows the Y202 yard job passing this location on its way back "up the hill" to Goulding yard ...stacks of bricks and a bit of the siding can be seen in the background after the last car in the train: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=506021.
The other siding, located just south of the W.R. Taylor on the opposite side of Tarragona St. , has been removed but lasted, as far as I know, into the late 80's or early 90's and served the Pensacola News-Journal who received loads of news print there. The siding was fenced and ran parallel to Tarragona St. along side the loading door on the News-Journal building. I've been told by a former L&N/CSX employee that in order to get two cars in there a little gate opened in the fence on the south end of the siding to allow the end car's draw bar to stick through. That will be an interesting detail to include on the model! Unfortunately I have not been able to locate any photos of this siding. I have one photo I took of the building in 2002 after the track had been removed. It is not a digital image so I will have to scan it to share here.
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