How about a ride across the tallest, longest curved wooden trestle in the world. Enjoy the slideshow.
http://picasaweb.google.com/DaveDiGiorgio/GorgeTrip2908/photo#s5165918460371074498
This originates at Seeley in the Imperial Valley where a S. F. S-2 is on a flat and headed for the museum at Campo. It really gives one an idea of how rugged and desolate some of the San Diego county back country really is.
Doug da G,
This is cool! Justifies winding mountain routes with wooden trestles on modern RRs! Check out the S curve view much later in the presentation…
Well, I saw the moel in HO and N at your museum. Did not realize the thing was so remote until watching those.
I found it on google earth, you have to see it from the air. here are the coordinates:
lattitude: 32°43’44.69"N
longitude: 116°11’0.59"W
inncase anyone wants to drive there from NJ here are the directions[:P]
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Take the ramp onto New Jersey Turnpike S Partial toll road |
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Take exit 6 toward Florence/I-276/US-130/PA Turnpike Toll road |
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Merge onto New Jersey Turnpike Ext Toll road Entering Pennsylvania |
5.3 mi 6 mins |
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Continue on I-276 W/Pennsylvania Turnpike Toll road |
32.7 mi 36 mins |
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Continue on I-76 W/Pennsylvania Turnpike Toll road |
252 mi 3 hours 56 mins |
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Take exit 75 for I-70 W towar |
Great pics! The Carrizo Gorge route was the inspiration for my outdoor layout.
Man that’s cool, thanks for sharing - my FiL and I really enjoyed it! [:)]
Thanks for the memories. I was stationed at the Navy air base just outside of Seeley in the late 60’s. By the way, the gypsum plant at Plaster City had it’s own narrow gauge rr that ran some pretty long trains to it’s mine back in the moutains. As legend has it, there is a cave in those hills with a cache of old army guns that were destined for Poncho Villa. Ken
Ray,
Based on your interest in desert themes, you would have loved the (since torn down and replaced with HO) O gauge layout at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. Huge. There may be some pics out there on the web. For starters, Try www.midnightrailroader.com/museum/htm.
The original 2 rail O gauge layout was completed in 1941 and covered 2,340 square feet, utilized 1000 feet of track, and contained 22 switches. For its time, it was thought to be the largest layout in the world. The theme was “orange groves to the Grand Canyon.”
Jack
Doug…Very nice pictures. I liked the wooden trestle bridge.
That is some desolate country.
Chuck
