Lake Elsinore, California
Lake Elsinore is a city in western Riverside County, California, United States. Established as a city in 1888, it is on the shore of Lake Elsinore, a natural freshwater lake about 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) in size. The city has grown from a small resort town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to a suburban city with over 70,000 residents.
View from Santa Ana Mountains via Ortega Highway, 2009
Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service Northrop N-3PB carrying out a test flight over Lake Elsinore, California, 1941
Crescent Bath House, or "The Chimes", 2006
Newly constructed housing tract in the Alberhill Ranch neighborhood. Pacific Clay Products company mine in background.
California Southern Railroad
The California Southern Railroad was a subsidiary railroad of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in Southern California. It was organized July 10, 1880, and chartered on October 23, 1880, to build a rail connection between what has become the city of Barstow and San Diego, California.
California Southern's original station in San Diego. This station was demolished and replaced in 1915 by what has come to be known as the Santa Fe Depot.
The station and yards at San Bernardino in 1915. A year later, the station was destroyed by fire.
A westbound train pauses at Cajon siding to cool its wheels before continuing down the pass in March 1943. The station and facilities are at left.
A Santa Fe train working through Cajon Pass in March 1943.