Cascade trestle/mile sign

[Paul Davenport]

The Friends' MOW milepost and whistle post team is researching what signs were placed on the railroad's major trestles, and we wonder whether anybody has any older photos showing a mile sign or any other signs on Cascade Trestle, which is at Milepost 320.
A frame from film shot in 1978 by one of our team members is below. It's marked where we think there may have been a metal mile sign -- about the size of an automobile license plate -- attached to a horizontal timber at what would be at roughly the level of ties on roadbed. To see the marked piece of timber, you may have to move the vertical slider to view the bottom of the frame.
The view in the frame of film is from the west end of Cascade Trestle, looking east, toward Osier. There also may have been a mile sign on the east end of Cascade Trestle. It's our understanding that major work replacing timber on the trestle was done after the film was shot in 1978.
From what we've seen on a photo of a Lobato Trestle mile photo taken before the fire, any older mile signs on trestles were likely to be extremely faded and very hard to read. FYI, the sign on Lobato Trestle was mounted on a horizontal wooden wing off the guard rail, at about waist height.
If you have or know of images showing signs on the larger C&T trestles (Cascade, Lobato, Los Pinos, Chama River), please either post a reply here or contact me by email at pauldavenport@cox.net. Thank you.
Paul Davenport, "C" MOW team.
(photo credit to Terry Woolsey; photo interpretation by Jim Gross)

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[Paul Davenport]

The "C" session MOW crew installed mile signs on Cascade and Lobato trestles, using historical designs. Looking eastbound, here's the sign on the west end of Cascade Trestle. Mike Mahoney and Terry Woolsey did the bulk of the work on those signs and in this photo they've already installed the prefabricated signs and are standing on the far side of the trestle while waiting for two other crew members to hike back from working on unrelated signs further west on the line. The east end of the trestle also has a sign. The sign on both ends of the trestle have the same mile point on them because that's according to the RR's specs.

[Paul Davenport]

I should have included this photo with the above shot of the mission-accomplished finished product. This one shows Mike Mahoney re-measuring the Cascade Trestle signs' mounting boards before he and Terry Woolsey ventured out to put them on Cascade.

[Jason Rose]

Thanks Paul. Great photos.