Southern Pacific shoo-fly

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This shoo-fly was originally built in 1908 to allow trains to pass over the summit while the tunnel was being built, then the rails were torn up and the grade abandoned once the tunnel was complete. Rails were re-laid on the shoo-fly to allow the shipment of chemicals from and coal to Trona after the Searles Tunnel fire in 1981. The fire burned in the mile-long, wood-lined tunnel for six months. Rails were taken up between Lone Pine and the abandoned Pittsburgh-Liberty Glass plant at Bartlett to construct the shoo-fly and allow rail traffic to flow once more.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Pacific_Transportation_Company
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Coordinates:   35°27'55"N   117°37'38"W
This article was last modified 15 years ago