Nostalgia & History > Motorcar'n Up the NWP (Part 11 of 13)

Continued...
SR

Photo 1.  Now there's the cutting edge of technology- a solar wig wag!   A high-water mark, for sure!
Photo 2.  The Humboldt Bay coming up on our left...
Photo 3.  Street running-  THRU EUREKA, NOT AROUND IT!  

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Food at the Samoa cookhouse sure was good and plenty of it.

Mr.Bush Sir; If you might consider parting with your old friend ( M-51 )

please PM me. TIA Bill

Man, back when there were still two paper mills on the peninsula...

I moved into the HSU dorms in Arcata in the late summer/early fall of 1994, the smell of the pulp mills was always the harbinger of an approaching storm front off the Pacific.

Thanks again for the continuing coverage!

Jeff Moore
Elko, NV

Whatever part of Eureka that was, it sure looks like it had seen better times....

Pictures were respectively right behind Bayshore Mall (historically the site of one of the larger sawmills in Eureka), in what was NWP's "New" yard (a three or four track yard built south of the downtown area to handled overflow from the main Eureka yard), and then in old town Eureka. Old town has undergone a major renaissance in the decades since the railroad quit and is now almost unrecognizable from what it was in the middle 1990s- for example, here is a capture from Google Streetview that almost duplicates SR's shot from inside the motorcar, this image dates from 2012. That part of Eureka doesn't appear at least at face value to be missing the railroad all that much...

Jeff Moore
Elko, NV

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