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<span class="rltitle">[[Butt Lake Dam|Butt Lake Dam.]]</span><br /> | |||
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<span class="rlbottom">Butt Lake near Chester, Plumas County. 1906 - 1930</span> | |||
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Revision as of 10:02, 27 March 2021
Industrial Railroads.
Butt Lake Dam.
30in Gauge, Later 36in Gauge.
Butt Lake near Chester, Plumas County. 1906 - 1930
Crown-Willamette Paper Company.
24in Gauge.
Floriston, Nevada County. 1906 - 1930
El Dorado Lime & Mineral Company.
36in Gauge. Operated a large underground limestone mine near Shingle Springs at a place called “Sprecklesville”. Initially constructed a 1.9 mile long narrow gauge system to connect the mine with the Central Pacific's Placerville branch at Limestone (MP 133.5). This lasted until 1918 when kilns were relocated to Bullard (MP 131.7) in late 1918. The operation converted to standard gauge around 1925 operated until the late 1970s.
Limestone to Sprecklesville, El Dorado County. 1916 - 1925(NG)
Italian Vineyard Company.
30in Gauge. The Italian Vineyard Company was once the largest single vineyard in the world. To move grapes around the expansive property a railroad was constructed. Track of temporary and permanent nature was constructed upward of 22 miles total. Trucks began to replace the railroad in the 1920s and the railroad was removed by 1940.
Guasti (Cucamonga), San Bernadino County. 1908 - ca.1940
Natomas Consolidated Company.
36in Gauge. Formed through the consolidation of several dredging companies that engaged in mining and reclamation on the Sacramento and American Rivers. The company operated rock crushing facilities at Natoma, Fair Oaks and Oroville. Processed rock was graded and sold as architectural cobble and crushed gravel for highway paving projects throughout the central valley.
Natomas and Fair Oaks, Sacramento County. Oroville, Butte County. 1909 – 1962.
Union Construction Company.
36in Gauge.
Strawberry Dam, Tuolumne County. 1907 - 1911