Foothill Rails--Mountain Quarries RR Maps and Photos
Mountain Quarries
MAPS
Auburn Street Map
1940s Topographic Map
7.5 Min 1981 rev. Topographic Map
PHOTOS
AERIAL VIEWS
Aerial 1 1940, Flint to Robie Point
Aerial 2 1940, Robie Point to No Hands Bridge
Aerial 3 1940, No Hands Bridge to Quarry
Aerial 4 1975, Flint to Robie Point
Aerial 5 1975, Robie Point to No Hands Bridge
Aerial 6 1975, No Hands Bridge to Quarry
THE LOCOMOTIVES
1. Switcher #6 near the crusher. (Mike Lynch Collection)
2. Baldwin builders photo of locomotive #101 (Mike Lynch Collection)
3. Locomotive #102 (Mike Lynch Collection)
4. #102 seen at Flint(Auburn),CA (Mike Lynch Collection)
5. Builder photo of #102 (John Barnhill Collection)
6. #103 is distinguished from #101 and #102 by the steps on the front. (Mike Lynch Collection)
7. Classic shot of #103 on No Hands Bridge (Mike Lynch Collection)
8. Again we see #103, this time at the Twin Trestles, #3 and #4. near the switchback. (Mike Lynch Collection)
9. The only surviving loco, #202, was a small saddletank switcher. (Mike Lynch Collection)
10. #202 seen at Silverbend Farms, a Christmas tree farm in Clarksburg,CA. 10-17-00. (Dave Epling image)
11. During Auburn's Depot Days, #202 was briefly on display at the Chamber of Commerce. (John Rosser image)
"THEN AND NOW"
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| FLINT, Interchange With SP Near Auburn,CA |
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| THE SWITCHBACK |
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| HWY 49 GRADE CROSSING |
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| EAGLE ROCK WATER TOWER |
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| QUARRY CRUSHER/LOADOUT |
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| NO HANDS BRIDGE |
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CRUSHER/LOUDOUT REMAINS
1. Approaching the loadout along the right of way.
2.-4. Remains of the crusher/loadout building.
Blasted limestone was dropped through a chute called a glory hole to a cavern that ran beneath the quarry.
This cavern was partially natural, partially man made. The limestone was loaded into ore cars inside and
brought to the crusher/loadout on a curved trestle.
5. A look into the tunnel, Hawver Cave, which was once a natural cavern.
6. A newly constructed gate keeps tresspassers out.
7. The original concrete tunnel portal through which the ore cars passed.
8. This building just outside the cavern housed heavy equipment of some sort.
9. Inside is the base the equipment sat upon.
10. A view from above of the area, now developed for recreation.
11. Looking down river towards the engine house remains and eventually Auburn.
12.-13. Two interpretive signs have also been erected at the site. One explains the use of limestone,
the other has a timeline of the quarry and railroad.
14.-15. With investigation, ties and rail can still be found at various points.
ENGINE HOUSE REMAINS
Just a few hundred feet down river from the quarry loadout sat the single stall engine house. All that remains are
whats left of the fairly shallow servicing pit. The last photo shows the engine house intact just below the loadout/crusher.
MORE
1. A pack train brings supplies to a trestle construction site.
2. One of the couple of line poles that still exist.
3. Another view of the quarry crusher/loadout. Note a locomotive is visible.
4. The new patch for the California State Parks Auburn SRA now features "No Hands" Bridge.
5.-6. These images show trestles under construction or recently completed. (Auburn SRA Collection, courtesy Mike Lynch)
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