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Crane 9225 at Pepper Yard on June 30 1947.
Pepper Street Yard was set up as the material yard to take the place of Vernon Yard as the major track facility. It was at the back of Division 3 carhouse.
The reduction or rail mileage made redundant a facility the size of Vernon Yard. At this date, though, they were both in use.
The last real use of Vernon Yard (other than as the site of the V line turnback loop when PCCs went to that line) was as the point of cremation of scrapped cars.
Later this was replaced by the embalming and shipping of the cadavers of dead cars to Terminal Island.
Caption comment from Ken Harrison; Bob McVay photo courtesy the Joe Testagrose collection
