I agree with you, Bill -
The tipple at Sawpit was equally far from the road, but hidden behind a dense growth
of trees and underbrush - if I hadn't been intently looking for it, I would have driven by
without even noticing it. The model that I built from a kit
* several years ago is clearly
of the Sawpit tipple, as the ore bins enter on the same side as the chute, and it has a
simple, rectangular wooden roof - not the larger complex corrugated roof in the photos
of the one near Placerville.
I spent about half an hour there ten days ago, and got the impression that from what little is left of the r-o-w that the RGS passed close by on the chute side of the tipple - no room for trucks to back up, but possibly enough for a short siding. If the mine remained active after 1952, then of course with the RR gone trucks would have taken over
...
- Russ
* I don't remember who produced the HO-scale kit - it may have been Campbell, but more likely Histörical Scale Miniatures.