{"id":508,"date":"2010-10-07T23:13:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T07:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2010-10-07T23:13:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T07:13:54","slug":"day-trip-to-dunsmuir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/day-trip-to-dunsmuir\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Trip to Dunsmuir"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took what I call my “Last\u00a0day trip\u00a0to Dunsmuir for a while” on Wednesday (10\/6\/10) meaning, I start my new job at Schwan’s on Monday and it’s going to be a while before I have any time off to do such things. Even though I only saw one train that day, it was a very satisfying and relaxing day. Rewarding as well as I found two new things I have never seen before along the old Siskiyou Line in Northern Cal. and got to chat with an online\u00a0acquaintance at what was a chance meeting at a remote area along the line.<\/p>\n

The night before my trip, I emailed a fellow, Robert “Photobob” Morris saying I was going to be in Dunsmuir area and hoped to run into him. Well the next day as I was driving through Grenada, CA, a very small very old farm town along the Siskiyou line, I noticed a strange looking old Line-shack I had never noticed before. There was a road leading right up to it. It was an old but still\u00a0usable\u00a0“in-Motion” track weight scale used for the farmers grain cars.<\/p>\n

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As I was checking it out, up pulls Robert and his wife to take some pictures as well. Small world… We were both surprised that, after many many years, and being in a small town with high unemployment and basically nothing for the local kids to do it was in such pristine shape. There wasn’t a single bit of graffiti or vandalism, there was expensive but primitive electrical equipment inside behind unlocked doors. I have some pictures at my Picasa site<\/a>.\u00a0The first few are of the scale, shack and the old Southern Pacific concrete line shack.<\/p>\n

There are a few images of my other discovery that day. An old section of road with a cool old trestle going over it. Thought it would be a good future photo-op location if trains ever return to that section of track again.<\/p>\n

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I took what I call my “Last\u00a0day trip\u00a0to Dunsmuir for a while” on Wednesday (10\/6\/10) meaning, I start my new job at Schwan’s on Monday and it’s going to be a while before I have any time off to do such things. Even though I only saw one train that day, it was a very … Continue reading Day Trip to Dunsmuir<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,17,8],"tags":[95,18,96],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canon-sx-120is","category-trains","category-travel","tag-day-trip","tag-dunsmuir","tag-grenada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}