Re: One more day on the Madera Sugar Pine grades....

Thanks Chris! Here's the last chapter from my trip on Sunday, Oct. 7:

I drove down the ROW to Sugar Pine(had a near miss with a passenger car who thought no one else was out on the single lane grade, but we managed to squeeze around each other).

Still standing are several buildings:

This is supposedly the Dance Hall

Here's the Paymaster's Office (converted into a home):


A nice sign tells you what it was:


Quite a few employee cabins survived (you can see one to the right of the Paymaster's Office). Most have been heavily remodeled so I didn't take any photos. The Mill Pond still exists as does the boiler house, but both are hard to photograph without trespassing.

Sugar Pine is now a very nice community which looks like it is comprised of both summer and year round residents.

That's all I did in my 5 hours in the woods. I got home in time for dinner and a couple of adult beverages to celebrate.

Maybe I'll find more next Monday when I plan to return to the woods after the YMSP Photographer's Special...