Interesting History in this Pic
 

Carpenteria, CA State Beach today.

Is this very, very old small gauge railroad track for loading/unloading shipping freight from a long gone pier, or was it to move tar from the tarp pit bluffs, which have been around for at least 100,000 years. I won’t speculate on global warming, since it’s very, very old.

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Clearly it's old, before there were cameras! :D

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Rod Stewart said every pictures tells a story.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1617236480.jpg

Really poor WIFI but you get the idea.

Yeah, that’s real interesting.

Pretty cool, Hugh!

Could this have been a ramp dolly system for launching boats?

Are you sure they’re not long lost camera dolly tracks from C.B. DeMille’s “10 Commandments”?

https://www.outsideonline.com/2023921/cursed-buried-city-may-never-see-light-day

Hope all is well Hugh, have fun!

That would be too cool. No idea, BUT VERY SMALL GAUGE TRACK...like a camera dolly track. The thin wood suggests its wasn’t meant to support much weight over a long period of time.

Same spot?

http://www.psaapg.info/cloud/sjgs/2018_Fieldtrip_Wilkerson_Carpinteria.pdf

STOP W16: Railroad Tracks
Archaeologists have exposed a buried railroad track that used to service the Alcatraz open pit asphalt mining operation.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1617238921.jpg

Hugh, I think just 12 month old steel made in China.

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There are several "tar seeps" in and around Ventura County. The modern oil industry actually got it's start just up the hill from Santa Paula where the old Union Oil headquarters has been turned into an oil museum.

Anyway, tar was mined to roof houses of the day, and before that the local Chumash used it to seal their fishing boats.

Chumash used to caulk their boats with the stuff. White folks used it in patent medicine......who were the smart ones?

BTW, ever notice that there is no "1st" Street in Carp?

Wow! quite the interesting (and huge) PDF

Very cool, thanks for posting.