RJ, Take a peek at the Sanborn Chico map #39 and again on map #36 (see file section where my Chico drawing is). It appears to me that the SN ROW does not come...
Karl, Obviously I look in the wrong dumpsters, where did you find those? Of all the times Išve been to Rio Vista, Išve never inquired about archives or...
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The library at Rio Vista Junction has lots of neat stuff. Go talk to Bart or Mike or, really, any of the archive crew back there in the library, and let them...
Hi Scott, Pieced together those Sanborns. It may explain a lot. I've studied the picture on Garth's site of Union Oil many times in the past, and always ...
As for Diamond Match, I used to go there quite often in the 60šs and 70šs to the Diamond Lumber beekeeping supply outlet. I remember the SN trackage went...
Does anyone know where the Meinert branch of the SN began and ended? I know that very near the BART tracks between Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill that there...
Greetings all, Does anyone know where the Meinert branch of the SN began and ended? I know that very near the BART tracks between Walnut Creek and Pleasant ...
The Walwood Branch, ran from Meinert south along Oak Grove Road. I've not been able to pin down the exact end of the line. But it did have a spur that can be...
Karl: You are correct about the California Midland's trackage on 6th. While doing research for my master's thesis on the SN, I found a great source of CM...
underthefrog wrote: "I have a picture of an ornamental iron street arch, possibly on 5th. It is similar to those in San Francisco on Fillmore, and in the ...
I have found the recent discussions about Chico to be very interesting and useful. Thanks especially to RJ for his 8/22 post and to Garth to his excellent...
Check out Microsoft TeraServer ( www.terraserver.microsoft.com ). The USGS map dated July 1973,while probably not entirely trustworthy, gives a more correct...
I took my SN books & papers along for reading at the cabin this weekend. Herešs what I think happened with the Hamilton City Branch. * 5th St trackage from...
Holy C**p!! http://vintageairstream.com/sn_images/RRSanborn/DiamondMatch.jpg I just took a look at Google Earth of Diamond Match where the hell did it all...
... photo ... Special ... have ... Correction: The map on Terraserver.microsoft is dated 1993, however the tracks configeration is the same as 1952 LandVoyage...
I question the connection between the Dantoni Branch and the Cal. Midland. The Dantoni Branch was built in 1927 according to the corporate history in the...
Radio: The Hamilton City Branch was not torn up until about 1927. There is a Calif. RR Commission decision published in their bound volume of decisions that...
... corporate ... track ... title ... You could be correct. I don't really know. However the short entry I read said that they were allowed to paid Yuba County...
My copies of the Yuba City and Sutter 7.5's show as 1952, photorevised 1973. I do have a question about what I mentioned, the placement of the Tierra Buena...
Hey, now we are getting somewhere. Strike my hypothesis in my last post that the trackage was removed 1912-1914. Wish I had done my thesis on the Sac Northern...
I'll see what I can answer. See below. RJ ... There is the one at Mulberry (22nd & Chico Ave) It is still there, although not used as packing shed anymore,...
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... 101 and ... A bit tardy, but I've been away for a while busy with other things. The only cab signal operation on the SP was a 1 mile segment of the red...
I did speak a litlle hasty when I made that post. yes see, years ago I saw photos of the cab interior of SF-1 at it did show cab signals. But now I realize...
... The Sacramento and Woodland (Northern Electric) opened July 4, 1912, and as far as I know Mikon was the crossing of that line (SN Woodland Branch) and SP...
Nope, there were recalcs on the Cal-P mileages, but they were much earlier. I just looked and found the date for the SN's alignment plat for that area. The...
Cal. Midland did build about a miles and a half of track in Marysville, and delegated operation to the NE. Construction began the day after the NE opened to...
... 79 mph ... signals were ... locomotives, ... The change of location of Mikon on the SP came about because the crews had been calling the SN diamonds...
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