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Trespassing with a speeder on the Westside
Author: Drew Jacksich
Date: 10-11-2009 - 00:32

As a followup to the NWP posting below, this took place long before any organized speeder or motor car groups existed, so I guess this can't be an insult but since I am the one posting it, I am sure someone will @#$%&. Yes, I was trespassing. Yes, the motor did not have a proper spark arrestor. So there. Even so, 44 years puts this a little beyond the statute of limitations. I also carried a handgun while doing this even though I was under 21---but GCA '68 hadn't happened yet so it didn't matter.

These were taken on the then dormant (and being scrapped) Westside Lumber Company's 3 foot gauge railroad behind Tuolumne, CA in 1965 and 1966. The car itself was destroyed by fire (what hadn't rotted out) about 15 years ago.

At the Camp 8 Water Tank
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2524/3999705741_a9f7f6e456_o.jpg

About 1.5 miles (rr)East of Camp 8
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2637/3999705585_cab26dd91d_o.jpg

Water tank below Camp 10
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3430/4000471298_0380307c5d_o.jpg

At Camp 9
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2462/4000471378_a754795d70_o.jpg

Water tank below Deadwood
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2424/3999705961_304129ac53_o.jpg

Deadwood
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2520/3999706069_463aa1bec5_o.jpg

I covered the Westside from Big Rock Cut outside of Tuolumne to the Clavey River. The bridge over the Clavey burned on Memorial Day weekend of 1966 about a week before I got that far out on the line. The track beyond Clavey had been de-spiked so it was a mute point. I last ran this contraption in November of 1966. By the following Spring, most of the rail beyond Camp 8 had been removed and construction of the new Cottonwood Road had made using the remaining track impossible.

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Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Trespassing with a speeder on the Westside Drew Jacksich 10-11-2009 - 00:32
  Re: Trespassing with a speeder on the Westside Tom Moungovan 10-11-2009 - 07:11
  Re: Trespassing with a speeder on the Westside Freericks 10-11-2009 - 08:39
  Re: Trespassing with a speeder on the Westside JWL 10-11-2009 - 09:40
  Re: Trespassing with a speeder on the Westside Drew Jacksich 10-11-2009 - 09:56
  Re: Trespassing with a speeder on the Westside Double standard 10-11-2009 - 10:23
  Re: Trespassing with a speeder on the Westside Freericks 10-11-2009 - 10:55
  Re: Trespassing with a speeder on the Westside Johnny M. 10-11-2009 - 15:48
  Re: Trespassing with a speeder on the Westside Dick Dorn 10-12-2009 - 09:18
  Re: Trespassing with a speeder on the Westside Tom Moungovan 10-12-2009 - 10:59
  Re: Trespassing with a speeder on the Westside OPRRMS 10-11-2009 - 13:14
  Re: Clavey Tom Moungovan 10-11-2009 - 18:47
  Re: Rough-assed track car Steven D. Johnson 10-12-2009 - 03:50
  Re: Trespassing with a speeder on the Westside Drew Jacksich 10-13-2009 - 00:13
  Re: Trespassing with a speeder on the Westside Bob Jennings 10-12-2009 - 05:59
  Re: Trespassing with a speeder on the Westside David Dewey 10-13-2009 - 18:02


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