Irv Spence's Cartoon Diary: March 26, 1944

The roundhouse at Bakersfield, ca. 1952.




Still active in June, 1974.




Prior to its removal in 1991.

Irv Spence's Cartoon Diary: March 25, 1944

Thanks to Tom M. for providing the map and the postcard of the Ridge Route to Bakersfield. "I actually remember traveling on parts of this when I was very little," he wrote. "It was a pretty harrowing trip. All praise Interstate 5!!"