Altamont Press Discussion Board

03-07-2024 - 13:04

Mental Health Consultant

1. Re: Carrizo gorge old passenger coaches- I only know them by site, while out shooting in Jacumba...

Mike, relax, the poor fellow just asked a few questions.
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03-07-2024 - 11:44

Spider Web

2. Re: Carrizo gorge old passenger coaches- I only know them by site, while out shooting in Jacumba...

Posted: 3 years ago Sp1110 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For years there were old passenger cars stored on > a spur on the SD&AE mainline. The Spur is in > Carr
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03-06-2024 - 11:57

BOB2

3. Re: Carrizo gorge old passenger coaches- I only know them by site, while out shooting in Jacumba...

Back before CA became a little too weird about it, we'd go out to another friend's "private property" located high on a hill, just outside of beautiful downtown Jacumba, to shoot his AR's (nowadays, w
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03-06-2024 - 10:58

Dindu Nuffin

4. Re: Carrizo gorge old passenger coaches

BOB2 has X-Ray vision. He evaluated all the steam boilers at Merrill, OR just by looking at them from his car window.
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03-06-2024 - 10:49

Blank

5. Re: Carrizo gorge old passenger coaches

BOB2 knows.
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03-05-2024 - 22:35

El Indio

6. Carrizo gorge old passenger coaches

Are there still passenger cars at Carizzo Gorge? I thought the SD MTS had decided to scrap the bi-level ones, but I don't recall. https://live.staticflickr.com/7617/16405036764_7e10b3c9cd_c.jpg E
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03-28-2023 - 13:57

John

7. Re: The Second Most Asked Question In Railfanning

I cry Shenanigans. That line is at best the 5th most asked question. When will it reopen questions in order: 1: Tennessee Pass 2: Donner Track 1 3: Saluda Grade 4: NWP to Eureka (Or even just to
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03-13-2023 - 13:33

Grain Theft Rail Baja

8. Re: Tijuana dead line or locomotive theft?

Those were stolen by the bad Carrizo/Pacific Imperial crooks. They parked it in a shippers private spur. The owner of the spur was NOT happy. Would you be happy if someone parks a car on your own d
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03-13-2023 - 11:41

CZRY

9. Tijuana dead line or locomotive theft?

Some derelict locomotives in Tijuana. I notice an ex-Carrizo Gorge unit in there: CZRY 3878 Ex-CNW 4324 This very intriguing comment is under the video (translated from Spanish): "Technical
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11-29-2022 - 13:48

Ghost of Baxter Ward

10. Re: Newspaper Article About San Clemente Erosion Problems

miscellaneous musing Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 1) Freight traffic was stopped for a couple of > days according to the story. It's moving again. > But I agree
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09-10-2022 - 10:35

D. B. Arthur

11. Submitted For Your Approval - One-hundred-forty-first Installment

There was a recent discussion on another thread about the San Diego & Arizona Eastern, so here's a photo I took FORTY YEARS AGO, on June 08, 1982, when a friend of mine and I made our way to Campo, CA
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05-24-2022 - 12:56

WebDigger

12. PARAMOTOR CARRIZO GORGE TRESTLE GOAT CANYON w/ a History Lesson | Video 12m, 25s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r-gEwW0l4I&ab_channel=cloudzrest
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05-21-2022 - 20:08

WebDigger

13. Eastbound Cab Ride Through Carrizo Gorge HD | Video 59m, 27s, Nov 8, 2012

"This video is of a cab ride one on of the recent Maintenance of Way trips from Jacumba, through the famed Carrizo Gorge and across the Goat Canyon trestle, before continuing on east to Plaster City."
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05-20-2022 - 12:59

WebDigger

14. Westbound Cab Ride Through Carrizo Gorge HD | Video 1:42:11, Jul 23, 2013

"This video is of a cab ride on one of the final CZRy Maintenance of Way trips from Plaster City, through the famed Carrizo Gorge and across the Goat Canyon trestle, before continuing on west to Jacum
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05-05-2022 - 10:21

BOB2

15. Re: Submitted For Your Approval - Forty-eighth Installment

D. B. Arthur Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > V Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > How safe is the old right of way these days
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05-22-2021 - 16:42

Bill Root

16. Re: 'Play Safe' (1927 silent film)

Great scenes on the SD&AE in Carrizo Gorge.
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05-12-2021 - 16:59

PPP

17. Re: Big Boy club foam

TTT Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > * Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Since the announcement of a Big Boy run, people > o
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05-12-2021 - 16:15

TTT

18. Re: Big Boy club foam

* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Since the announcement of a Big Boy run, people on > social media are doing their thing... > > Donner Pass, up the Valley Sub,
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05-06-2021 - 09:07

Foamguzzlin

19. San Diego Super Bowl Rail Specials

Charger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 1988 Super Bowl info: > > Super Bowl XXII was played on January 31, 1988 at > Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, Californi
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12-09-2020 - 18:23

SwampyJoe'sCafe

20. Re: I wish PSRM could run to mexico again : (

El Chappo's tunnel digger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > we do not have a timeline for > > restoring service to Tecate due to the track > > conditions and sever
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12-09-2020 - 18:10

El Chappo's tunnel digger

21. Re: I wish PSRM could run to mexico again : (

> we do not have a timeline for > restoring service to Tecate due to the track > conditions and several other outside factors. > Maybe one "outside factor" is that the cost to reopen Carrizo Go
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09-17-2020 - 07:26

Bozo Texino

22. SDAE - Desert Line

https://www.sdmts.com/about-mts-meetings-and-agendas/sdae Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Report on the Desert Line Ms. Landers revisited the status of the progress on building a new Customs facilit
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01-09-2020 - 15:53

Negin

23. Re: "Wonderhussy Does Big Boy" ? ?

She has cover other train stuff, such as the Carrizo Gorge tracks.
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12-22-2019 - 22:16

...

24. Re: SP 2355 - A brief history of fencing

Found a 2008 article in the Mesa news. Citizens didn't want to let 2355 go. Carrizo Gorge Railway made a bid?? What the? A California-based company expressed interest in buying the train in
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08-09-2019 - 18:40

Jorge

25. Re: Let's Go to the Gorge

Here's the Wikipedia thumb-nail history. Looks like SDIY was operator and SDIY power was used on this excursion. In March 1984, the Metropolitan Transit Development Board signed an agreement with
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07-21-2019 - 15:45

JOHN

26. Re: Great News on Yreka Western

Curtiss R. Milburn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If one is to go off first impressions of their > website, they seem to be as reputable a company as > RailMark.
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05-20-2019 - 22:26

Goatie

27. Re: Carrizo Gorge

Shortline Sammie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Tommy...glad to see you're alive and kickin' > > Sammie Sammie should fix the Gorge!
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05-19-2019 - 01:16

Shortline Sammie

28. Re: Carrizo Gorge

Hi Tommy...glad to see you're alive and kickin' Sammie
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05-19-2019 - 00:22

T

29. Re: Carrizo Gorge

SDMTS will do SMART DMU Tijuwana n connec Smurfs. BFF Rob in Redlands say this year Carizzo get 136 lbb welded conrete tie FRA class 4 PTC
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05-18-2019 - 21:55

Gavin Rail

30. Re: Carrizo Gorge

Gonna be turned into HSR to move illegals quickly into the PRK to replace fleeing taxpayers who are headed to free states escaping persecution. Get on the Gavin rail or risk being sent to a Demo
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