I am at a junction town that no longer exists. The rails and town are both long gone. One railroad was narrow guage and ran north/south. The other railroad was a logging line running NW/SE and was named for the county it served and the town at the connection with the SP. Changes in traffic and ownership, plus new construction rendered this town obsolete. Virtualy no trace of anything is left here. What ghost town am I in?
Are you in eastern Oregon?
No
If every trace no longer exists, are you at the bottom of a lake?
Owenyo
MS, No but next to a lake. When the level is high it would be under water, but most years the level is low. This does have something to do with this town being bypassed.
Vic, it’s not Owenyo.
I’m outa here. You all have all night to figgure it out.
Felton
Wheeler or Valsetz.
The Middle of Nowhere
Is it near The Great Salt Lake?
OK how about a few more hints.
The narrow guage railroad, although abandoned in this spot, had sections that were later standard guaged and incorperated into the Southern Pacific and the Western Pacific. Both sections were abandoned when the SP-UP merger made them redundant. Some of the narrow guage locomotives went on to live out there lives on the Carson & Colorado, a SP railroad south of here. This town is named after one of the principals of the narrow guage.
Colfax, Ca? on the NCNG RR?
No Vic, Wrong side of the Sierras(hint hint)
Is this spot in Nevada?
UUURRRRGGGG!!!
Alturas, on the NCO
Herlong ?
MS, it is very close to Nevada.
Vic’s got the right railroad.
Dale is very close too.
But remember I am looking for a former junction (crossing) town that no longer exists, and hasn’t for many decades.
Hackstaff ?
Good guess but the crossing wasn’t in Hackstaff.
Was it in Lassen County ?