Re: Yet Another Narrow Gauge Mystery Location
| December 30, 2017 09:33AM |
And John West nails it. The Pajaro Valley Consolidated ran from Watsonville, CA to Moss Landing, Salinas, and Buena Vista with a branch to Alisal Canyon. It was built to haul sugar beets and was gone by 1930. The first photo was of the concrete bridge abutment crossing the Pajaro River just outside Watsonville. The next two photos were of the ROW just north of Moss Landing and a bridge at the mouth of Alisal Canyon.
Here's the ROW heading into Alisal Canyon:
Here's the ROW heading into Alisal Canyon:
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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