| 词条 | Minarets and Western Railway |
| 释义 |
railroad_name=Minarets and Western Railway| logo_filename=| logo_size=| marks=| locale=Fresno County, California| start_year=1921| end_year=1933| old_gauge=| hq_city=Pinedale, California|}} The Minarets and Western Railway was a Class II common carrier that operated in Fresno County, California, from 1921 - 1933. The railway was owned by the Sugar Pine Lumber Company and was built the same year the lumber company was incorporated so that it could haul timber from the forest near Minarets (northeast of Friant) to its sawmill at Pinedale (near Fresno). The southern portion of the line was operated with joint trackage rights with Southern Pacific. During the Great Depression, in 1933 the lumber company went bankrupt. The track north of Friant was abandoned and the Pinedale Branch was bought by Southern Pacific, where it was later known as the Pinedale Spur of the Clovis Branch. Southern Pacific later sold the spur and Clovis Branch to the San Joaquin Valley Railroad (SJVR). SJVR abandoned the line in the 1990s and today the Pinedale Spur is preserved as the Fresno-Clovis Rail Trail.[1] Pinedale BranchThe {{convert|4.7|mi|adj=on}} Pinedale Branch ran west from Pinedale Junction (today at North Willow Avenue at East Shephard Avenue, Fresno) on the Southern Pacific, to its lumber mill. The branch ran west along the north side of Shephard Avenue. Just west of Millbrook Avenue the railroad crossed Shephard heading in a southwest direction toward Fresno/Pinedale. The depot at Pinedale was located near Highway 41 and East Nees Avenue. Today a granite monument (California State Historical Landmark #934)[2] is at that depot/camp location in remembrance of the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Pinedale was the destination where the Japanese disembarked the trains for their internment camps. In the moviesMinarets and Western Railway rolling stock was used in the filming of "Carnival Boat" (1932), which starred Bill Boyd and Ginger Rogers. In action scenes featuring Boyd and other actors atop flatcars carrying loads of timber, the film is intentionally reversed, making it difficult to read the "Minarets and Western Railway" markings. The designation "M & W" is readable at times, and the locomotive is marked "Sugar Pine Lumber Co." References
1. ^{{cite web| url=http://www.traillink.com/ViewTrail.aspx?AcctID=6015226| title=Fresno-Clovis Rail-Trail| year=2007| work=Traillink.com| publisher=Rails to Trails Conservancy| accessdate=September 10, 2008}} 2. ^{{cite web| url=http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/ListedResources/Detail.aspx?num=934| title=Temporary detention camps for Japanese Americans - Fresno assembly center| publisher=California Office of Historic Preservation| year=2008| accessdate=September 10, 2008}} External links
6 : Defunct California railroads|Logging railroads in the United States|Railway companies established in 1921|1933 disestablishments in California|1921 establishments in California|American companies established in 1921 |
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