Foothill Rails--Mountain Quarries RR Maps and Photos

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

#6 Mike Lynch Collection	#101 Mike Lynch Collection
#102 Mike Lynch Collection	#102 at Flint(Auburn),CA Mike Lynch Collection	#102 Bldr Photo John Barnhill Collection
#103 Mike Lynch Collection	#103 on No Hands Bridge Mike Lynch Collection	#103 at switchback. Mike Lynch Collection
#202 Mike Lynch Collection	MQ#202 as Silverbend #202 Clarksburg,CA 10-17-00 Dave Epling	MQ#202 as Silverbend #202 Auburn,CA John Rosser

"THEN AND NOW"

THEN	NOW
FLINT, Interchange With SP Near Auburn,CA

THE SWITCHBACK

HWY 49 GRADE CROSSING

EAGLE ROCK WATER TOWER

QUARRY CRUSHER/LOADOUT

NO HANDS BRIDGE

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. A side note, the cave also contains ancient pictographs.

5. A look into the tunnel which has now been named Hawyer Cavern.
6. A newly constructed gate keeps tresspassers out. Tours are available with special permission.
7. The original concrete tunnel portal through which the ore cars passed.

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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.

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