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1. "Old Arcadia train depot to be dedicated at Pomona." News clip with picture, no date. (Picture is the same as photo #10)

2. "The old depot." News clip, September 20, 1966.

3. "Arcadia landmark threatened." Daily News Post, parts I and II, September 4, 1965.

4. "Arcadia adds to railroad annals." Arcadia Tribune, September 12, 1971.

5. "A glimpse of Arcadia's past." Arcadia News-Post, September 1, 1971.

6. "Depot to pass into history." Arcadia News-Post, August 20, 1979.

7. "Arcadia's depots head for history." Arcadia News-Post, August 6, 1969.

8. "Two volunteer workers begin work on depot." News Post, September 12, 1969.

9. "Train depot tells sad, sad stories." Arcadia Tribune, circa 1969?

10. "Working on the railroad." Arcadia Tribune, August 16, 1973.

11. "Old Arcadia depot lives." Arcadia Tribune, August 29, 1971.

12. "A bit of Arcadia." Arcadia Tribune, September 17, 1969.

13. "Abandoned station not forgotten." Arcadia Tribune, March 9, 1978.

14. Information on Wm. Kreutzkamp, station agent, Santa Fe Station. Summer 1978.

15. Arcadia Santa Fe Station was apparently completed early in 1887. Information based on the research of Sandy Snider, Los Angeles County Arboretum, November 1979.

16. Postcard size drawing of the Arcadia Station in three colors. No date.

17. "Santa Fe reaches California by overcoming many obstacles." Arcadia Historical Society, no date.

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Railroads-Arcadia Railroad Station

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1. "View from the foothills." Arcadia Tribune, November 23, 1947.

2. "How railroad opened valley." Arcadia Tribune, May 7, 1969.

3. "Early transportation." The View, Sierra Madre, September 27, 1973.

4. "The San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railroad." Historical Society of Southern California, p. 213-220. September 1951.

5. "Projected rail lines in area." Sierra Madre Vista, 1888.

6. "Prices on rapid transit line." Sierra Madre Vista, September 8, 1888.

7. Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad - Orange Belt Route. (2 pages showing map and schedule of stops) Southern California - a Semi-tropic Paradise by Warner Brothers, published by Times Mirror Company, Printers, 1886-1887.

8. "If we announce in these columns that Sierra Madre would have two additional rail lines." Sierra Madre Vista, April 19, 1889.

9. "It has transpired that agents of the Rapid Transit Road have been quietly buying." Sierra Madre Vista, September 6, 1889.

10. Railroads-chronology. List complied by Sandy Snider, Los Angeles County Arboretum Historical Section, June 1979.

11. "History of City's first railroad line traced." News clip, no date. It refers to Pasadena, but is related to Arcadia.

12. Report of derailment of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad at Santa Anita, California on September 4, 1945. Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington D.C.

13. "Five dead and 100 injured as Santa Fe train derails here." Arcadia Tribune, p.1, September 6, 1945.

14. "The police and the wreck." Arcadia Tribune, p.1, September 10, 1945.

15. "Inquest in wreck of limited to be held tomorrow." Arcadia Tribune, p.1, September 10, 1945.

16. "Crew negligence blamed at inquest of Santa Fe wreck." Arcadia Tribune, p.1, September 13, 1945.

17. Official time tables of Pacific Electric Railway, including to Baldwin's Ranch. Effective Jan. 15, 1904. photocopy.

18. 1923 map of Pacific Electric Railway routes.

19. 1914 map showing routes for the A.T.& S.F. RY Coast Lines, other railroads and electric roads in Los Angeles County.

20. Travel Town Museum souvenir album. c.1992.

21. Travel Town Coloring Book from the Travel Town Transportation Museum. Printed 1997. The second coloring page features a maze to the Arcadia Depot. Caption says "Arcadia Freight Depot was a Southern Pacific freight station located at First and Santa Clara Street in Arcadia, California. It was saved from demolition by Parker Lyon and moved to Travel Town in 1955."

22. Arcadia's Railway Transportation Chronology timeline from 1883 to 2016. Presented on January 26, 2017 by Arcadia Historical Society at the dedication of its History Lives Here Historical Marker at the Gold Line Arcadia Station. See also

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Railroads

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