Re: One last trek to the Madera Sugar Pine Grades

On our way out we stopped at one of the bigger fills on the MSP Granite Saddle line and found one of their 80+ year old wooden box culverts still doing its job:


Here's a look at a nice piece of MSP right of way:


I can almost hear a Shay coming around the bend in the distance...

We had spent a good part of the morning wandering along the grade at various locations on the MSP. We found what appeared to be a site where they had wrecked a flat car. There was a broken coupler pocket:

This is a different manufacturer than the other coupler pockets I've found on MSP. I tried researching "Royal Steel" and came up with nothing...

And nearby was some of a car's brake rigging:

It looked like the rest of the car was salvaged...


To be continued...