On Ardendale Road, north of San Gabriel, California, passing motorists are treated to a sight which makes them stare, blink their eyes, and then stare again.
Puffing through the orange groves they see a ghost of the past. It is the locomotive, “Sidney Dillon,” gaudily painted and guilded relic of one of the most romantic eras in railroading’s history. Behind it rumble a tender, day coach, box car and caboose, equally old and colorful. Together, they make up the “Grizzly Flats Express.”
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