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Northern terminus of the Niles Canyon railway. It's unlikely a locomotive has passed by here since 1984, at most a work crew with Fairmonts.
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Yah, the UP runs semi parallel to much of the Niles Canyon Railway.
The line that the Niles Canyon Railway is on former SP, and was abandoned in either 1983 or 1984 (I forget the exact year) due to very bad mud slides from the spring rains. SP then ran through the canyon on the WP.
These tracks are actually ones laid by the volunteers of the NCR over a decade ago as the SP pulled the rails back to Pleasanton after abandonment. If you look at them closely though, they are 'laid' really only in a figurative sense, note how many of the Tie Plates actually have ANY spikes in them. Thus at most they would have run Fairmont speeders or other very lightweight vehicles over this track since 1984.
The line that the Niles Canyon Railway is on former SP, and was abandoned in either 1983 or 1984 (I forget the exact year) due to very bad mud slides from the spring rains. SP then ran through the canyon on the WP.
These tracks are actually ones laid by the volunteers of the NCR over a decade ago as the SP pulled the rails back to Pleasanton after abandonment. If you look at them closely though, they are 'laid' really only in a figurative sense, note how many of the Tie Plates actually have ANY spikes in them. Thus at most they would have run Fairmont speeders or other very lightweight vehicles over this track since 1984.
In Spring they have a spur track that looks almost like that one and they use it to store equipment and other special things of MOW or passenger equipment.
The tracks look a lot like those do but they are only used to store things and nothing more.
I'm not surprised to hear equipment still uses them but don't expect a huge trains to go down them because it would snap them in half like twigs.
The tracks look a lot like those do but they are only used to store things and nothing more.
I'm not surprised to hear equipment still uses them but don't expect a huge trains to go down them because it would snap them in half like twigs.
Well, it's not as bad as it looks. I'll be posting the new crossing 180° from this shot. The NCRy wants to lay track all the way back to Pleasanton so they can run their steam and diesels on longer trips.
http://www.ncry.org/
http://www.ncry.org/
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