I was able to buy a book at their gift shop titled, “Thunder in the Mountains: The Life and Times of Madera Sugar Pine,” by Hank Johnston that contained many old photos. I was lucky to find Pam Rank, the very nice bookstore manager, at the Sugar Pine Railroad, who shared a lot of information and let me look through an old notebook with pictures of the old flume. Here again, I didn’t know what a Wigwam Burner was until I happened to spot this one on my way to Fresno Dome. There is another mill site, below Sugar Pine just off Sky Ranch Road along Lewis Creek. Most of the old logger’s cabins have been replaced by large vacation homes that are crowded on small lots along Lewis Creek. The old concrete power house is about all that is still standing. The log pond is used for recreation and fishing today. Today not much of the Sugar Pine Mill remains. I visited Sugar Pine just a mile off of Highway 41. It seems hard to believe that something this big, that was over 50 miles long, could just disappear. Look for the ECCO sign on the right side. There is a section of the original Madera Sugar Pine Flume on display at the Fresno Flats Museum and another section on top of a E Clampus Vitus Monument, on the way to Yosemite along Highway 41, just past Rd.
One word of caution, it has narrow metal walkways that take the flume and trail over gullies and creeks. It has a trail that runs alongside the flume. It brings water down to Bass Lake from Willow Creek. is where the entrance to the trail begins. I also discovered there is a “modern day flume” called Brown Ditch, located at the Southeast end of Bass Lake.
I thought it was old, but I have since learned it is part of the water intake into Bass Lake. I was on my way back from Manzanita Lake when I came upon a large structure, made from wood and steel, crossing the road. When I started looking at the old structures around Oakhurst, CA. It was said people actually rode the flume either on top of the lumber or in small handmade boats. An E Clampus Vitus Monument marks the location. One such Herder Station was located at Poison Switch on Rd. The flume carried 1.5 billion board feet of lumber to Madera during the years it was in use.įlume Herders were stationed along the flume to keep the lumber moving. The flume built in 16 foot long sections, 5 feet across consumed all the lumber the Sugar Pine Company could produce in the two years it took to construct the flume. It was made to float the milled lumber using the water in the flume to the railroad in the Central Valley by gravity.Ĭonstruction began in 1874, and by the time it was finished 2 years, later the flume was over 50 miles long, extending from Sugar Pine to the railroad head in Madera. then known as Fresno Flats, to the railroad in Madera. Thurman came up with the idea of building a V-shaped wooden flume from his mill site in Oakhurst, CA. If 6 cars is leaving people waiting for a new car to show up in line though, then yes you can totally handle more cars right now.A gentleman by the name of William H. And also huge impatient babies who will tank your ride statistics outside of what your testing numbers are over the slightest variance.īecause of course, testing your ride to see how customers like it, doesn't test how they react to customers actually getting in and out of the ride. Because the customers are both too stupid to exit at any time but when they reach the very fron of the station/too stupid to board except when the very front one is empty. That said, if you do manage to get it working for more than 6 cars, try to eyeball how many you can have before they start backing up to exit.
This game can me wonky as hell at times for the actual details (just look at the sorry state block brakes are in compared to RTC3). But it's not willing to extend close to the bendy bit that is the start of drops.Īgain, normally. Noormally it is is letting me increase my cars count even through splashdown parts, up the downhill section of drops (WTF). I have NO IDEA why you are limited to 6 tops, unless you have the start of a drop section near the end of your ride.īecause doing some token testing in sandbox mode.
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