Research Ouestion Question: Taken from a letter to Steve Honegger from Harry Bender, Past President of Central Coast Chapter, National Railroad Historical Society. "Was the passenger shelter shed at Asilomar the same one as Lake Majella?" See also Train Memories in this issue. Answer: There were two passenger sheds. The front cover shows the Asilomar shed and the first map to the right shows the Station location on Crocker Avenue at Sinex Avenue. The second map shows the track switch for a spur immediately beyond Crocker and Sinex. Evidently Asilomar was used for non-schedule special passenger trains at Asilomar and Lake Majella was used for sand operations. In the timetables shown on page 5 Asilomar was Station #32665 at the 129.9 milepost and Lake Majella was Station #32670 at the 130 milepost. (in 1978). According to Russ Heisinger in the article "Travels Aboard Del Monte" in the South Bay Historical Railroad quarterly, Santa Clara Block: "The Monterey Branch Line actually extended a couple ofmiles beyond the depot at Pacific Grove, where it provided service from the dunes for the shipment ofhigh-grade sand that was used in the processing of glass by Midwestem and east coast glass makers. They loaded the sand in bags. It was pure sand, and most of it was shipped by train. They washed it, dried it, and bagged it up and shipped it out." He also recalls that what the railroad called Lake Majella really was more of a pond than a lake, one where the water went after the sand had been washed of impediments. These dunes are today part of the development at Spanish Bay golf course. The Lake Majella passenger shed was outside of the Pacific Grove city limits. j AN , OCR Text: Research Ouestion Question: Taken from a letter to Steve Honegger from Harry Bender, Past President of Central Coast Chapter, National Railroad Historical Society. "Was the passenger shelter shed at Asilomar the same one as Lake Majella?" See also Train Memories in this issue. Answer: There were two passenger sheds. The front cover shows the Asilomar shed and the first map to the right shows the Station location on Crocker Avenue at Sinex Avenue. The second map shows the track switch for a spur immediately beyond Crocker and Sinex. Evidently Asilomar was used for non-schedule special passenger trains at Asilomar and Lake Majella was used for sand operations. In the timetables shown on page 5 Asilomar was Station #32665 at the 129.9 milepost and Lake Majella was Station #32670 at the 130 milepost. (in 1978). According to Russ Heisinger in the article "Travels Aboard Del Monte" in the South Bay Historical Railroad quarterly, Santa Clara Block: "The Monterey Branch Line actually extended a couple ofmiles beyond the depot at Pacific Grove, where it provided service from the dunes for the shipment ofhigh-grade sand that was used in the processing of glass by Midwestem and east coast glass makers. They loaded the sand in bags. It was pure sand, and most of it was shipped by train. They washed it, dried it, and bagged it up and shipped it out." He also recalls that what the railroad called Lake Majella really was more of a pond than a lake, one where the water went after the sand had been washed of impediments. These dunes are today part of the development at Spanish Bay golf course. The Lake Majella passenger shed was outside of the Pacific Grove city limits. j AN , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,E through F File names,L through M File Names,Millet,MILLET_011.pdf,MILLET_011.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: MILLET_011.PDF, MILLET_011.pdf 1 Page 1