Looking south, this whistle post was located just north of the Alturas Street crossing.  The right of way is the gravel path to the left of post.  The track curved slightly to left behind the Eucalyptus trees and passed between the trees and the building in the distance after crossing Alturas and Ammunition Road.  Aviation Road is on the berm to the right of the whistle post.   Note ties on bank.

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Concrete culvert stamped 1946 was located just north of the whistle post above.  In this photo, the building at the right of the picture is a Circle K store, which is now vacant and boarded up.  The bus is on Ammunition (Ammo) Rd, heading for Camp Pendleton.  A small manufacturing building is now located about where the tank truck is in the picture.  The grading in the upper left of the image is where a shopping center now sits.  This culvert provided drainage from the west side of the right of way to Fallbrook Creek on the east side of the tracks.

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Taken just north of the culvert, the right of way crosses the picture from left to right.  Right is north in the picture.  The silver building has a sliding loading door that was too close to the tracks to allow for a siding, yet too far away to load cars on the "main" so I don't know if it ever had rail service.  It used to be a packing plant; I think it is now a recycling center.   Pinkish building at right of pic is the Aero Publishers building that sits above Aviation St.  The trailer park I used to live in as a kid would be on the near side of the tracks here and extend to Aviation Street.  It is now a self-storage complex and shopping center.

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At the old Fallbrook Lumber Co. siding adjacent to the Fallbrook Street grade crossing, Fallbrook's last remaining lengths of rail are being ripped up in January 1984.

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