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Elvas Tower Interlocking - Contolling
SP (UP) traffic into Roseville between Bay Area, & Los Angeles
& thru traffic out. Located off of I80 business in Sacramento
CA
Elvas Tower never sleeps, 24/7
for 90 plus years!
Inside looking a the dispatchers
desk. Traffic up and down the SP in Northern California can be
viewed from these monitors
Close up of the interlocking
controls that were still in use-1999
The status board of the interlocking
layout and the listing of control handle combinations to actuate
particular switch combinations
Another view of the control console
and the official time.
Los Angeles bound piggyback on
the east leg of the wye - 1996
Out the window south towards
Stockton
Same shot at twilight
Looking towards the north end
to Roseville
Same shot at twilight
Evening view out the north window
looking over the freeway
Next few photos... Evening views
of the Oakland shuttle pulling in to wait for cars off the Fresno
turn.
A Roseville bound LA trackster
flys by on a chilly spring evening
At Haggin looking east towards
Elvas, the Canyon sub of the old Western Pacific, now UP (Sacramento
sub), branches to join the Martinez subdivision at the signals.
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