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Niles Canyon Railway Winterail Photo Special 3/9/2013 Part 3



by Chris Guenzler

Now we would have Photo Runby 3 in Niles Canyon.



















Photo runby 3.











Reverse move 4.











Photo runby 4. We walked down the track a short way for another two runbys but I chose to stay aboard the train and relax.





Once everyone was off, we would reverse up the tracks.





The photo lines have been set up.





We reversed west down the railroad.





Now we are heading for the photo ines.







The photographers were in action as we passed them on the train. We reversed for photo runby 6.





Some of those who stayed on the train during the runbys. Once the runby was finished, the train started its journey back to Sunol.





Two views of Niles Canyon on the return trip to Sunol.





Views of the PLA's Brightside Yard.





The train ran through a pair of semaphore signals.





The train returned us to Sunol where we all detrained.





One last view of Clover Valley Lumber 4. We left and headed to Pleasanton for lunch at Subway and one other last stop.





The Pleasanton Southern Pacific station built in 1894.





The Pleasanton sign board. From here we dropped Bob and Elizabeth off at the BART station so they could get to Oakland Airport to fly home later this evening. Chris and I headed back towards Reedley on the most direct route we could find.





Along California Highway 180, we shot this scene. The last stop of this trip will be back at the Hillcrest Tree Farm to ride the train there.



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