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Old SP Placerville Branch

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 1:22 am
by Caltrain927
This trackage has been out of service for quite some time, but a few signals remain on this line.
http://goo.gl/maps/yXR8j
http://goo.gl/maps/6sDVS
http://goo.gl/maps/epcZY

Here's where this old wig-wag used to stand,
http://goo.gl/maps/Bn9XD
http://www.trainweb.org/dansrailpix/shi ... rings1.jpg

Re: Old SP Placerville Branch

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 6:55 am
by freebrickproductions
This trackage has been out of service for quite some time, but a few signals remain on this line.
http://goo.gl/maps/yXR8j
There is a concrete base where a gate mast used to be next to the cantilever. You can also see where there is another signal if you spin around a bit.
I wounder what those poles with bells on them were for. Maybe old cantilever masts?
Edit: I think so, I can see where some lights used to be mounted in this screenshot I took:

Re: Old SP Placerville Branch

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 6:19 pm
by cabman701
That's just crazy that they would install new signals but not completely remove the old one's.

Re: Old SP Placerville Branch

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 10:33 pm
by freebrickproductions
PaulSP wrote:
freebrickproductions wrote:I wounder what those poles with bells on them were for. Maybe old cantilever masts?
They are obviously ex Griswold Cantilevers.
I thought that they resembled griswalds.

Re: Old SP Placerville Branch

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:09 am
by freebrickproductions

Re: Old SP Placerville Branch

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:10 am
by freebrickproductions
I think that this might have once been a wigwag:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Placervi ... 14.43&z=20

There was a signal here:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Placervi ... 16.58&z=19

There were signals at this crossing too:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Placervi ... ,7.51&z=20

There were signals as evident by the bases that were left:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Placervi ... 22.06&z=19
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Placervi ... 18.41&z=19

Here is where what is left of the line ends:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Placervi ... 11.31&z=19

Re: Old SP Placerville Branch

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:24 am
by freebrickproductions

Re: Old SP Placerville Branch

Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 2:31 pm
by Evansville64
That is.. Bizarre.. :Smile: The rail and turntable are there at least, preserved in time, for now..