Aside from the spectacular nature of this location and the impressive engineering that went into it, I find it peculiar that such a desolate line would have enough traffic to require semaphore signals.
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You are correct, this was dark territory and there were no signals along the route. However, there was a pair of signals guarding the approaches to the wooden trestle in this photo and this one is the eastern such approach signal to the Goat Canyon trestle. Course, once radios were common in train cabs, the need for the signals was rendered moot.
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| Posted by on March 26, 2014 | |
No regularly scheduled traffic on this line since 2008, but has there been any traffic? When was the last train, regardless of purpose?
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How about irregularly scheduled traffic. Has there been any of that? ;-)
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Excellent series! I am enjoying each shot a lot.
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These are great shots. Keep em coming. I am very interested in this line. Very cool. So does this embargo order mean that no traffic whatsoever will travel on it anymore? Is it even connected still at any point to any main line that could place a train on it if it could?
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