> On Dec 27, 2021, at 3:11 AM, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Larry, I meant to ask. > > What is that 2' gauge light railway use for?
Technically, mostly to keep the right of way. As long as a train runs on it every so often they maintain the right of way. The way that is done these days is a scenic run between Roaring Camp and the Boardwalk in Felton. https://www.roaringcamp.com/ The last time I rode in a locomotive was on that run. Until WWII those tracks continued all of the way to San Jose, however due to worries about a Japanese invasion, they blew up the tunnels. This also had the unfortunate side effect that if someone wanted to ship freight between Santa Cruz and the rest of the world they now had to go through Salinas and Southern Pacific had to charge them more. One of those tunnels, however, was turned into a nuclear war proof storage facility: https://www.santacruztrains.com/2018/06/tunnels-zayante-tunnel-5.html When I was a kid there were a couple of mines producing high quality sand that were a short ways up (North and higher elevation) than Roaring Camp and they used to ship trainloads of sand. > > Alan C > > On 27-Dec-21 06:11 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >>> On Dec 26, 2021, at 8:02 PM, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Yes, Larry, that's exactly what it is. >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQl2-A1Owq0 >> Thanks. >> >>> Enjoyed your gallery. Hope you avoided the snails. >> I’m glad you liked it. For some odd reason I stayed out of the river today, >> so no snails. >> >> I forgot to mention that all photos were taken with the K-1 and 15-30. >> >> >> -- >> Larry Colen >> [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
