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Posted 06 June 2023 - 04:28 PM
Now here is a massive undertaking -
As Virginia City's Comstock Lode mines got deeper and deeper, heat and ground water were challenges. Adolf Sutro came up with the idea of a long tunnel to drain them.
Sutro also had the idea to bore through the Sierra Nevada Mountains to Lake Tahoe to supply water to San Francisco. I'm sure glad that never happened.
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Posted 06 June 2023 - 05:22 PM
Adolf Sutro has a very interesting history.
Thanks for the story link.
Frank
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Posted 06 June 2023 - 10:53 PM
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing, and thank goodness Sutro’s plan for Lake Tahoe didn’t get traction.
It seems draining lakes for agriculture and supplying water to the cities was popular in the last century. A similar scheme was approved for Waldo Lake in the Oregon Cascades. It was started, but failed for financial reasons.
Where’s Waldo? Why it’s east of Eugene.
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Posted 07 June 2023 - 09:32 PM
My Grand Parents use to talk about the Sutro Baths in San Francisco. They both grew up down in the Bay Area. Pictures are so cool.
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Belay On
Posted 08 June 2023 - 01:04 AM
I recall the first time we had breakfast at the Cliff House and seeing the historical photos of the nearby Sutro Baths and being amazed.
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Posted 08 June 2023 - 05:58 PM
It's a long sad story about what's going on with the "now" Cliff House.
Hope some group gets together with NPS and gets it open again.
Frank
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Posted 09 June 2023 - 08:49 PM
Back in my working days we had a new hire who was making numerous trips south to move his train. I figured he had a large HO setup until I went to his house to see it. What he had was the Joe Douglass narrow gauge locomotive from Dayton, Sutro & Carson Valley Railroad. He had found it in front of a real estate office in Palm Springs, did some research and restored it. Its history included the Dayton Valley and building the Lake Arrowhead Dam.
He had a great photo album of the restoration which included making molds and casting missing or broken parts. I don't think he certified the boiler but he could run the locomotive off his air compressor. He had a couple hundred feet of track in his yard and a flat car.
I think he sold it to the Nevada Railroad Museum in 94.
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