The Wheels on the Bus go round and round, round and round, round and round. : Lone Pine, California

Manzanar War Relocation Center

Manzanar is most widely known as the site of one of ten concentration camps in the US where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from December 1942 to 1945.

After the war, the government removed most of the structures, and buried gardens and basements.

Interred within the fenced enclosure are 16 of the 27 people killed when one of the largest earthquakes ever to hit California rocked Lone Pine leveling the town at 2:35 am on March 26, 1872.

Onion Valley area

Sequoia Kings Pack Trains

Est 1872 - Oldest Pack Station in the High Sierras

Owens Lake Silver Lead Furnace

Airing down at the Swansea Trailhead

It's been years since we had seen a Horny Toad.

Burgess Mine

The Saline Valley cable tramway was constructed between 1910 and 1913 by the Saline

Valley Salt Works to transport pure salt deposits from the salt lake in Saline Valley across the

Inyo Mountains to Owens Valley. There it was milled and shipped via the Carson & Colorado

narrow gauge railroad north to Nevada. Gondola cars carrying 800 pounds of salt, traversed the

series of tramways at a rate of 20 tons per hour over the Inyo Mountains. A total of 30,000

tons of high grade salt was carried over the tramway on and off through the early 1930’s. The

main salt tram summit control station straddles the crest of the Inyo Mountains. It once was

totally enclosed with metal siding. A unique crossover system allowed the gondolas to go from

one tramway to the other without stopping. Salt tram towers can be seen from the Swansea Grade on the west side of the Inyo Mountains. No two towers are exactly alike.

Cerro Gordo Mine

Mining operations were undertaken from 1866 until 1957, producing high grade silver, lead, and zinc ore. Some ore was smelted on site, but larger capacity smelters were eventually constructed along the shore of nearby Owens Lake. These smelting operations were the beginnings of the towns of Swansea and Keeler.

2 story Hotel

Smelter

Keeler

"Keeler End of the Line - From Mount House, Nevada, narrow gauge rails of the Carson & Colorado reached this site in 1883. As Cerro Gordo and other mines faltered, the rail line fell on hard times, so plans to extend the line to Mojave were abandoned, leaving Keeler as "End of the Line".

Train Depot

Have dish will travel

Look closer. Those are not rocks.

Reward Mine

Kearsarge Station
Built originally as a stagecoach depot in 1866, it evolved into a railroad station in 1883 to carry freight and passengers on the Carson & Colorado Railroad line, known locally as the "Slim Princess". It served the Independence community from 1883 until it was closed during the Great Depression on June 29, 1932. The station was torn down in 1955 and the railroad line ceased operation on April 30, 1960.