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Tishimself
01-15-2014, 10:41 PM
In keeping with GRADS previous post on Folsom Lake....this is Lake Don Pedro. We are in deep kim chee up here....not just talking about boating...

Before, in better times....

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GotHalos
01-15-2014, 10:47 PM
They showed Folsom Lake on the local news here tonight. Said it's becoming a tourist attraction because of everything that is now exposed due to the low water levels.

We need some rain quick.

Tishimself
01-15-2014, 10:54 PM
They showed Folsom Lake on the local news here tonight. Said it's becoming a tourist attraction because of everything that is now exposed due to the low water levels.

We need some rain quick.

I can imagine, Shasta is like that also....lots of stuff buried down under that lake, old towns, old SP right of way...more than Folsom I believe...as for Don Pedro, water bosses took a field trip out there this week, think they might have been shocked at how low it is...

Photos of the old SP (Southern Pacific) mainline tunnel which has not seen the light of day since the lake was filled.....

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Tishimself
01-15-2014, 11:29 PM
More on the Lake Shasta lake levels....

This is the lowest the lake has ever gotten....from 1976...

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This is from 2008....the lake is 25' from this point....

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From tunnel 6 which has not been exposed since 2008, and is still not....notice the black stains on the ceiling? That is stained in there for all time from the thousands and thousands of steam engines that have pounded their way through there for almost a century....

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Tishimself
01-15-2014, 11:37 PM
Tommy should like this....there a LOT more under Shasta than there is at Folsom, no offence GRADS..I find this kind of stuff fascinating....if I lived closer to either lake, I would be out there all the time....Take a read on this...


http://www.redding.com/news/2008/oct/05/relics-exposed-in-lake-shasta/

GRADS
01-15-2014, 11:46 PM
Cool pictures. I also find it really interesting. Thanks for posting.

Tishimself
01-15-2014, 11:55 PM
Cool pictures. I also find it really interesting. Thanks for posting.

GRADS, check out the link I posted..lots of pics of the old highway 99 bridges....anyone for a road trip??