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Golf Club Drive Trestle
The most southern trestle on the Southern Pacific Mountain Route and also the shortest, the Golf Club Drive Trestle is located south of Golf Links and crosses over the similarly-named road that once...
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Tanglewood Flag-Stop
Location of Tanglewood with possible sites of flag-stop(Map courtesy Duncan Nanney; annotations mine)At the base of San Lorenzo Avenue south of Felton, a small community developed in a clearing beside...
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Summit Tunnel
South portal of Summit Tunnel, enteringBurns Creek basin, c. 1882.Summit Tunnel, often also called Wrights Tunnel, was a major undertaking made by the South Pacific Coast Railroad beginning in 1878....
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Glenwood Tunnel
Map of the route of Glenwood Tunnel. (Courtesy Duncan Nanney)Neglected and largely forgotten due to the overwhelming shadow cast by the Summit Tunnel and its history, the nearly equally-long Glenwood...
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Journey: Zayante to Mt. Charlie Tunnel South Portal
My journey of April 7, 2013, was between Zayante Flag-Stop and Mountain Charlie Tunnel (South Portal) and included visits to the sites of Tank Siding and Virginia as well. The following map charts this...
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Eccles Tunnel
Location of Eccles Tunnel (Courtesy Duncan Nanney)Eccles Tunnel, formally SPC Tunnel #5 then later Tunnel #4 and sometimes known as the Zayante Tunnel, is a fairly well-known and easily accessed tunnel...
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Laurel Trestle
Location of trestle at bottom. (Courtesy Duncan Nanney)Skirting Burns Creek and eventually crossing it immediately before the Summit Tunnel's south portal, the right-of-way north of Laurel supported...
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Fahihn & Forest Lakes Flag-Stops
Location of Gold Gulch and its spur along theFelton Branch. (Courtesy Duncan Nanney)Two Southern Pacific Railroad flag-stops were located near the bottom of Gold Gulch Creek south of Felton along the...
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Felton Grove Trestle
Map showing Felton connecting spur including the locationof Felton Trestle, at left. (Courtesy Duncan Nanney)After a number of years of service to Old Felton only via a spur at Felton Junction, the...
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Journeys: Harmony Acres to Waterman Switch
After three emails from two colleagues praising the exploration value of the upper Dougherty Extension Railroad, I could not help but check it out. As a bit of background, the Dougherty Extension...
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"Old" Felton Station & Depot
Google Map location of Old FeltonA failed railroad venture in the 1860s brought to light the first conception for a railroad depot in Felton. Ten years later, in 1875, another venture funded primarily...
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Holmes Kiln Spur
Google Map rendering of the right-of-way in Old Felton.The Felton Branch of the South Pacific Coast Railroad hosted two major spurs of its own, the longer lasting of the two being the Holmes Kiln Spur....
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Felton Grove Auto Camp Flag-Stop
In all likelihood, Felton Grove was a rare flag stop for the South Pacific Coast Railroad and probably only served the Southern Pacific half a dozen times, if that. While initially there was an appeal...
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Zayante Creek Trestle
Map showing location of Zayante Creek Trestlebeside Graham Hill Rd. (Courtesy Duncan Nanney)Once prominent on the drive between Old Felton and Felton Depot along Graham Hill Road sat the Zayante Creek...
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Bonnie Brae Flag-Stop
Map showing rough location of Bonnie Brae. (Courtesy Duncan Nanney)Located a mile north of Felton Depot, roughly at the modern-day site of Rose Acres Daybreak Camp at the end of San Lorenzo Way, once...
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Brackney Flag-Stop
Location of Brackney station and region (Courtesy Duncan Nanney)It is common knowledge that the narrow pair bridges along CA State Route 9 between Felton and Ben Lomond are two of the most despised...
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Rubottom's Spur
Rubottom—an entry in the most unfortunate surnames in America—had the added privilege of also lending its unusual family name to the Rubottom's Spur, located along the Southern Pacific Railroad's...
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Glen Arbor Station & Spur
Location of station (Courtesy Duncan Nanney)Quite possible the most important way-station between Felton and Ben Lomond, the small station at Glen Arbor was a late addition to the Southern Pacific...
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Newell Junction Spur & Flag-Stop
Map showing Shingle Springs & Newell Junction at the baseof Newell Creek near Ben Lomond. (Courtesy Duncan Nanney)Newell Creek was named after a man from Maine named Addison Newell who established...
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Ben Lomond Station
Topographical map of Ben Lomond (Courtesy Duncan Nanney)The area around modern-day Ben Lomond was a lush redwood forest in 1868 when the U.S. Government opened the land for profiteering. For the first...
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