Splitting the signals. Spewing out a plume that would make Beebe & Clegg smile, Clover Valley Lumber Company's saddle-tanker #4 splits the twin semaphores just west of Sunol Depot, in the late afternoon sun, trailing a mixed local freight. The semaphores pictured here are apparently not original to the line. As the story goes, when the SP pulled out, they pretty much took everything with them. The Pacific Locomotive Association (PLA) folks who operate the Niles Canyon Railway have methodically been working to restore many of the features of the line and these signals are part of that. My understanding is that these were obtained from a location someplace in Arizona. They look right at home on this winding stretch of the original Transcontinental Railroad, built back in 1869.
Scenes of Clover Valley Lumber Company #4 and Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7 in action with freight and log trains, on a portion of the original Transcontinental Railroad.
