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| no partners | | I stopped on the way home from Redding to explore existing segment of US 99 alongside Interstate 5, just north of the Union Pacific control point known as Fisher, along the Sacramento River. I believe this highway segment was in use from about 1934, until the mid-60's, when it was finally replaced by Interstate 5. This segment in turn replaced a portion of the original Pacific Highway, which I believed ran a couple of hundred yards to the west. The Pacific Highway was preceded by the Stone Brothers Turnpike (amongst other names used) which was built in 1860 from Upper Soda Springs (Dunsmuir) to Redding. This toll road roughly followed the Siskiyou Trail, established by Hudson Bay trappers from Fort Vancouver. The Central Pacific used portions of the toll road for its rail bed in the 1880s.
Some asphalt is still visible. Until 99 was replaced by I5, travel through the river canyon was a twisty, one lane in each direction route. Between this segment and the river is the railroad, which had originally run through a tunnel at this point, but was daylighted sometime I believe in the late 1950s.
I obviously spent more than 3 minutes here. The recorded track does not reflect the time or distance I spent climbing down to the daylighted railroad segment. Use the Google Maps plus code 2JW7+QW7, Fisher, CA to view this segment in Google Maps. |
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