tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2151799760990306051.post2197795887753004174..comments2023-06-04T04:11:05.291-07:00Comments on Santa Cruz Trains: Gigling & OrdDerek Whaleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17715926686413316877noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2151799760990306051.post-39999413578455156102021-03-04T06:58:29.879-08:002021-03-04T06:58:29.879-08:00I rode this train to Fort Ord for my Advanced Indi...I rode this train to Fort Ord for my Advanced Individual Training.<br /><br />The Passenger Car was very Ornate.Joe Allisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04553706363881270253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2151799760990306051.post-40796354139029984042019-02-27T19:10:58.684-08:002019-02-27T19:10:58.684-08:00Hi I am a student at UC Santa Cruz and I would lik...Hi I am a student at UC Santa Cruz and I would like to know more about your great great aunt's land. Do you know about Gigling Ranch's land use and what they used it for? Maybe you know a relative with old maps or pictures of the land?Svengcohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01663913725662412911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2151799760990306051.post-74311126605797944742018-10-24T19:53:36.276-07:002018-10-24T19:53:36.276-07:00I was stationed at Ft. Ord 1n 1962 for 6 months. A...I was stationed at Ft. Ord 1n 1962 for 6 months. At that time I took the train from San Francisco at 3rd & Townsend to Ft. Ord, a few weekends on my 3 day pass. It was a wonderful trip and very scenic.Ray Shanahannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2151799760990306051.post-39274674832468512042018-09-09T14:54:14.811-07:002018-09-09T14:54:14.811-07:00Cliff Fox, to add to your information. My great-gr...Cliff Fox, to add to your information. My great-great Aunt Kate (nee Quinn) married Thomas F. Campbell, Nov. 27, 1895. They lived in Salinas and would visit their cabin at Gigling Ranch which he inherited from Anton Gigling. Thomas Campbell died 1940 and is buried with many other Quinns at the Watsonville Catholic cemetery (E. Lake Ave). Aunt Kate died in ca. 1962 and is buried in a Catholic cemetery in the Sacred Heart Parish in Salinas. My grandmother Belle Anton (nee Ramsay) would tell us children about uncle Tom shooting a rattlesnake under her while she was swinging at the Gigling cabin. She would tell us the ranch was “nothing but tumbleweeds and rattlesnakes.” Uncle Tom and Aunt Kate would ride horse and buggy from Salinas to the Gigling cabin for vacations and getaways. Since Uncle Tom and Aunt Kate had no children, my mom inherited their rocking chairs and other personal items.Tara Locke-Paddonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2151799760990306051.post-82305204614303109092016-11-05T13:17:31.775-07:002016-11-05T13:17:31.775-07:00Wow. Good information regarding the Giglings and ...Wow. Good information regarding the Giglings and Fort Ord. Anton and Fanny Gigling are part of my family. Anton and his brother Valentine came to America in the 1840's from Baden Prussia. My GGG father Michael Fox came to America from Ireland in 1848. By 1851 or 52 he was at Woolsey Flat, gold mining on the middle fork of the Yuba River. I have not traced his sister's movement until she was married at Woolsey Flats to Thomas Campbell in 1862. Two children were born and Thomas was working at Moores Flat until 1875. By 1880 Michael's sister Fanny was married to Anton Gigling and the two children (Mary and Thomas Campbell) were living with them. Thomas senior was noted to have died in a mining accident. I cannot determine if Anton had any children of his own, but it appears that his brother did, marrying a woman who I believe was named Manuela Girardia. By 1867 Michael and his growing family lived in Castroville. He stayed there, farming, until the fall of 1875 when he moved to Guadalupe in Santa Barbara County. My guess is shortly after Thomas was killed Fanny moved her family to Michael's place where she met Anton Gigling. Both Anton and Michael were successful farmers and entrepreneurs and likely knew each other prior to Fanny moving to Monterey County. Fanny may have visited Michael prior to '75 and had already been introduced to Anton, which is only speculation. Cliff Foxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2151799760990306051.post-33755616459282795412015-06-21T14:41:05.182-07:002015-06-21T14:41:05.182-07:00To continue, I was able to ride my bike almost to ...To continue, I was able to ride my bike almost to Castroville in 1973; I rode city streets through Monterey and Seaside, and then that nice, new bike path out to the Salinas River.<br /><br />The loop was easily seen in 1970, but construction changed that. The whole area was sandy with dunes which both tracks and the old highway went up and over. The tracks were reinstalled much lower, perfectly graded, and with a better roadbed than that seen in Marina or Seaside. There were old spurs near the loop (probably represented on the 1948 map along the southern edge of the loop, possibly with a double ended siding) that had a loading platform and probably a vehicle ramp; freight cars were regularly left there.<br /><br />The one time that I rode the Del Monte back in the evening, a few soldiers were crowded in the vestibules waiting for their stop and taking in the April sunset.<br /><br />I have a hard time remembering tracks running across the highway to reach the barracks, but I was young and probably didn't notice.Grantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2151799760990306051.post-6675608832275273432015-06-20T12:39:46.898-07:002015-06-20T12:39:46.898-07:00Much of the track was relocated when the old highw...Much of the track was relocated when the old highway was upgraded into something like a freeway; for the Fort Ord area this would have been 1971-72. The bike path was added at that time, too.Grantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2151799760990306051.post-76276554980572164192015-06-20T10:31:36.247-07:002015-06-20T10:31:36.247-07:00I have investigated this issue further and on stud...I have investigated this issue further and on studying my S.P. public timetables from 1965,<br />Ord was still shown officially as a regular stop for the Del Monte on the April 25, 1965 timetable.<br />However on the October 31, 1965 timetable it was converted to a flag stop which it apparently<br />continued to be until the train's last run on April 30, 1971.Duncan Nanneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2151799760990306051.post-50496107809021379452015-06-19T19:53:10.910-07:002015-06-19T19:53:10.910-07:00Ord or Fort Ord, if you prefer, was still listed a...Ord or Fort Ord, if you prefer, was still listed as a regular stop for the Del Monte in 1964.<br />When I rode the Del Monte in 1963, I expected it to make a brief stop here but it did not,<br />apparently treating Ord like a flag stop on the day I rode the train. Sometime after 1964<br />but by 1967, Ord was still on the public timetable but shown as a flag stop. When the Del Monte<br />made it's final run on the Monterey branch on April 30, 1971, there were still three flag stops<br />on the official timetable before the train reached the end of it's run at Monterey: Ord, Seaside,<br />and Del Monte. On that last run in 1971, the train skipped Ord and Seaside but made one of it's rare stops at Del Monte before going to Monterey station that evening.Duncan Nanneynoreply@blogger.com