| Simonian Farms is located in southeast Fresno at Jensen and Clovis
Aves. They sell dried fruits, nuts, and produce. The Simonian family has
also preserved many artifacts from the farm growth era around Fresno, including
old tractors, wagons, and a steam shovel. Other railroad collectables include
switchstands, crossbucks, and a semaphore. They have had this wigwag in
their possession for the last year or two, and it probably came from the
ex-ATSF branch that ran from Visalia to Reedley. (We're not sure of this,
but it is definitely a former ATSF wigwag, and many wigwags were recently
removed from that now abandoned branch) Ernest adds that when President
Clinton stopped there a couple of years back he wanted to see the overhead
train run! |
