Re: 2019 Madera Sugar Pine Explorations

Driving down the road towards the bottom of the incline I began wondering why the road did not follow the incline as many have done. I could see the incline coming down from above the road and then intersecting the road at a gentle angle. The answer was right at the intersection: there was a sizeable trestle on the incline. The photo below is looking across the trestle location up towards the incline. The road is on the right had side skirting the trestle location:

I would guess the trestle was about 80-100 feet long and about 30-40 feet high.

The photo below shows the spot where one of the bents had been located:

You can see the depression between the burnt and fallen trees.

Further down the road is on top of the grade:

We are almost at the bottom of the incline looking back up it.

There was some miscellaneous pipe off the side of the grade:


And of course an obligatory spike:


To be continued...



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/19/2019 10:22PM by Dave Peterson.