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The route of this rail line from
San Diego was up 32nd Street to Chollas Valley, bisecting Mount Hope Cemetery,
along Imperial Avenue through Encanto, Lemon Grove, La Mesa and then up
the 741 foot Alta (now Grossmont) Grade. It skirted El Cajon Valley to
Santee. It then went along Woodside Avenue through Riverview to
Lakeside, across Moreno Valley to Foster (now part of Lakeside). The
trains would stop any place along the route if signaled. The fare to
Lakeside from San Diego was 85 cents -- $1.50 a round trip -- taking 1 1/2
hours for the twenty-five mile trip. That was quite an improvement over
the all-day wagon trip. At
the height of the boom days, there were eight passenger and four freight
trains coming to Foster each day. After the Lakeside
Inn built the racetrack, there were special excursion trains run for
special events to lure the crowds. More
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1906
Foster Station
No. 2 at Foster's Station.
Pat Patters, Fireman & Charles Robinson, Conductor.
No. 15 approaching Foster Station. Weston Dairy barns and silo, house at the left edge.
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1910 - Foster Station
Left ==> Right
Mrs. Joe Foster, Mrs. Churchill,
Mrs. Pearl Brown,
Myrtle Robinson, Iva Churchill,
Ray Swanigan (top),
Mrs. Katie Nicolson Leng,
and Mrs. Carrie Robinson.
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1893 - El Cajon Station
Robert
C. Palmer standing on dock,
he worked for the railroad.
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1915
Gasoline engine at Foster Station. Ed Rhinehart, Mrs. Joe Foster, John Turner.
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