03-17-2021, 02:24 PM
Quote:Did you know about this tg?
Oh yeah...for ages. My old boss at the SJSU library used to tell me stories of taking the Suntan special from SJ to the boardwalk. I shared a house in Lompico when I first moved to SC. My housemate was a train buff. We often poked around Roaring Camp and the Zayante line. Once, we snuck on to the SJ Water property to visit the Laurel ghost town train depot site. I've also been to the Glenwood tunnel off Old San Jose Rd. It's behind a home and closed off (dynamited). I bookmarked this a long time ago:
http://coursetrained.blogspot.com/2008/0...-cruz.html
More pictures here:
https://flickr.com/photos/15749958@N03/s...790558038/
It's a tragedy that Standard Oil et all forced the death of that rail line. Imagine if it was maintained as a viable transportation option? I would have used it daily.
--tg
PS: when I lived up in Zayante/Lompico, the neighbors' teens told stories of riding their bikes across the trestles and if you road fast enough, it looked like you were flying when you looked down....Mountain folks!