Re: Madera Sugar Pine Then and Now and some exploring...
| June 07, 2020 09:47AM |
The spur continues to climb and curve towards the southeast as it enters an area of burned Manzanita bushes:
Here's part of one of the many choker cables found everywhere along MSP grades:
As the grade continues to the southeast it enters a small cut:
There were various pieces of logging debris around the cut. Here's a piece of firebox grate from a donkey engine:
And a broken rod with nuts attached from either a donkey engine or log car:
I've found a number of these broken rods over the years at logging sites.
To be continued...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/07/2020 10:49AM by Dave Peterson.
Here's part of one of the many choker cables found everywhere along MSP grades:
As the grade continues to the southeast it enters a small cut:
There were various pieces of logging debris around the cut. Here's a piece of firebox grate from a donkey engine:
And a broken rod with nuts attached from either a donkey engine or log car:
I've found a number of these broken rods over the years at logging sites.
To be continued...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/07/2020 10:49AM by Dave Peterson.
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