(rshsdepot) ISTEA Funding

[William Church <bbjr_@_ix.netcom.com>]

In regards to the ISTEA funding, I can attest to it's impact on depot
preservation. Here in Whittier, California the former Southern Pacific
passenger and freight depot sat empty for many years, after it was
uprooted to make way for a retail center it sat for another 7 years
until the City of Whittier received an ISTEA grant of $1.2 million,
after 2-3 applications, for it's renovation. Today, it sits at it's new
location, with work 85% complete, where it will become home to the
City's local transit office, an interchange point with the Los Angeles
MTA bus service, with the freight house becoming available for community
meetings and presentations.

On a side note to the restoration, the Depot was equiped with a
Fairbanks No. 8 scale whose under floor mechanism has been damaged and
whose above floor ballance column is long gone. Fairbanks nolonger has
any drawings nor catalogs on this model from which to base a
repair/restoration. Should anyone know of a similar scale please contact
me with details.

Thank you,

William Church

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