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Sunol >
Niles Canyon Railway
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Niles Canyon Railway is a 7 mile functional railway, using antique rolling stock. These pictures are from their yard, who were nice enough to let us explore while they worked.
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Type: Outdoors
Status: Active
Accessibility: Easy
Recommendation: check it out if you're nearby
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rust
unsafe flooring
water
trains
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It's a functioning antique train system.
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fences
barbed wire
locked gates
It's active, volunteers are there on wednesdays and the weekends
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From their website (http://www.ncry.org):
Steam locomotives pulled trains through Niles Canyon for eighty years before diesels took over in the 1950’s. In 1984, after twelve decades of railroading in the canyon, the Southern Pacific ceased operating trains on the right-of-way, pulled up the tracks, and deeded the land to Alameda County.
The Pacific Locomotive Association entered into an agreement with the County and began rebuilding the rail line in 1987. Association volunteers worked for over a year on the first part of the track reconstruction between Sunol and Brightside. On May 21, 1988, almost 122 years after the first Western Pacific excursion, the Pacific Locomotive Association brought railroad passenger operations back to life in Niles Canyon.
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Opheliaism on 4/26/2011 12:54 PM.
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on Apr 26 11 at 12:54, Opheliaism validated this location
on Apr 26 11 at 2:38, bonnie&clyde changed the following: Latitude, Longitude
on Aug 9 10 at 8:44, Opheliaism validated this location
on Aug 8 10 at 4:03, RomanKam updated gallery Niles in the Sun
on Aug 8 10 at 3:59, RomanKam added some pictures to a gallery
on Aug 8 10 at 3:53, RomanKam created a new gallery
on Mar 15 10 at 0:57, Steed validated this location
on Mar 14 10 at 10:01, edsel reordered images in gallery Night Time
on Mar 14 10 at 10:00, edsel updated gallery picture 100130-Matt Smith-060-Edit
on Mar 14 10 at 9:59, edsel updated gallery picture 100130-Matt Smith-025.jpg
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