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Re: Ride the NWP from Detour to Sausalito!
Author: The Odd Duck
Date: 07-20-2015 - 01:20
Retracer Wrote:
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> Odd Duck did you watch the vid? The westbound
> platform is still in place at Corte Madera. Not to
> mention there is a multipurpose path on the ROW
> all the way from Larkspur to Corte Madera. And the
> 1928 Larkspur station and warming hut is still
> standing. Also both Larkspur platforms.
>
> Watch the video and press pause when you and
> running down the Corte Madera platform and compare
> with this image from the user Railbaron of
> trainorders.com off a spinoff googlesites
> compiling his amazing work:
>
> [sites.google.com]
Yes I did and I will watch again at a later date. I have been physically at some of the sites when I live in Marin County. Why the alto power station caught my attention, I have seen the picture of the power house and there is amateur radio club house in the general area I went to, every now and then I would go look for the site with no luck until now.
Here is a funny story. I was reading on the report on turning the tunnel into a path and I notice the firm that was doing the report stated how narrow the tunnel was. I wrote to them and told them it a narrow gauge tunnel built in the 1880’s. They wrote back and ask are you sure. I sent them some info on the history of North Pacific Coast Rail Road. They sent me a nice think you note. Imagine with all the horse power in Marin County no one bother to tell them it was a narrow gauge tunnel.
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> Odd Duck did you watch the vid? The westbound
> platform is still in place at Corte Madera. Not to
> mention there is a multipurpose path on the ROW
> all the way from Larkspur to Corte Madera. And the
> 1928 Larkspur station and warming hut is still
> standing. Also both Larkspur platforms.
>
> Watch the video and press pause when you and
> running down the Corte Madera platform and compare
> with this image from the user Railbaron of
> trainorders.com off a spinoff googlesites
> compiling his amazing work:
>
> [sites.google.com]
Yes I did and I will watch again at a later date. I have been physically at some of the sites when I live in Marin County. Why the alto power station caught my attention, I have seen the picture of the power house and there is amateur radio club house in the general area I went to, every now and then I would go look for the site with no luck until now.
Here is a funny story. I was reading on the report on turning the tunnel into a path and I notice the firm that was doing the report stated how narrow the tunnel was. I wrote to them and told them it a narrow gauge tunnel built in the 1880’s. They wrote back and ask are you sure. I sent them some info on the history of North Pacific Coast Rail Road. They sent me a nice think you note. Imagine with all the horse power in Marin County no one bother to tell them it was a narrow gauge tunnel.
