photo 5
Whit Tower and Watson House are prominent in this picture peering over the trusses of the high bridge across Port harbor. The town of Port extends to the…
photo 6
The Port Plastics complex around 1968. A mirror reflects the scenery and traveling crane between the two buildings. Curving double track at bottom is part of…
photo 7
The switcher has unloaded the car ferry Anabel in Port harbor. PO tower is in front of the ferry and a freight on the main in Great Divide is ready to depart…
photo 8
The Great Divide engine terminal and stone roundhouse. The steel bridge in the background is on the mainline from Great Divide to Angels Camp. Lots of details…
photo 9
From near the control panel looking over the Bulline stock pens. Port Plastics is in the center background, and Whit Tower looms at the right. The dark area…
photo 10
A view from the Great Divide yard looking down the main heading for Angel’s Camp. Austin St. station is in the center and the Cooper Electric trolley has just…
photo 11
The rock bunker (Superior Detritus?) at Great Divide. Track repairs underway on the Cooper Electric line. Looks like one of the trolleys has become a diner…
photo 12
The Great Divide freight yard with the passenger station in the rear left. Half the station building is a mirror image as well as the office tower. The GD…
photo 13
Turning a bit to the left from slide 12, we see Cross Jct. station (also serves Corsa) and the coal/gravel dealer trestle at Corsa. The passenger platform…
photo 14
Angels Camp is on the top level of track with the station having a witches cap steeple. The long truss bridge connects Cross Jct. and Gorre on the cutoff line.…
photo 15
Looking over the seldom photographed end of Gorre with the oil dealer at bottom along with several other industries sharing the spur. Daphetid Trestle is above…
photo 16
Here we see the straining beam wood pony truss bridge over Gorre and the trestle to Daphetid. Angels Camp is high in the mountains on the right.
photo 17
Sowbelly is near the bottom and Angels Camp is high above. I don’t see the witches cap steeple in this picture, indicating it may be from an earlier era, not…
photo 18
The bridges at French Gulch, including the stub of a trestle at Sowbelly to allow switching the town.
photo 19
Looking into Devil’s Gulch with the bridges at Rjeldgaard Falls on the right. The town above is “Nika”, a mirror reflection of Akin, out of the picture to the…
photo 20
The Squawbottom Cinnabar mine inside Sim’s Loop high bridge. The mine was served by a spur from Squawbottom, and had an operating mine car which brought ore to…
photo 21
Facing Texas Draw, we see the steel arch approaching Akin as well as the steel deck truss on the line from Cross Jct. to Squawbottom, the town at bottom center.…
photo 22
Looking toward Texas Draw after the big steel arch from Cold Shoulder to Scalp Mt. has been installed. Squawbottom now has the new station, and a train is…
photo 23
A side-on view of the delicate Helengon Gap high bridge with Cold Shoulder in the background. This area was John’s snow scene. There’s a mirror in this…
photo 24
Turning left from the previous view, we see the steel girder and stone arch which form the approach to the steel truss. A passenger train has penetrated the…
