ABANDONED CALIFORNIA RAILROAD // Goat Canyon Trestle Bridge

This was the San Diego and Arizona Eastern, once operated by the Southern Pacific as a shortcut between San Diego and its transcontinental mainline near Yuma. Last operated in the early 1980s.
Canadian Pacific's Myra Canyon east of Kelowna BC is equally impressive, and the province has made it into a recreational trail!

It was accessible like 10 years ago
Somewhere the north tunnel after the trestle totally collapsed
Completely impassable
Hiking out there is an issue because it's remote
Go in a group take the necessary gear and go on a good weather day

Beautiful scenery, but for some reason, I kept thinking about you encountering a rattle snake.

Nice video

There is a place where you can experience what train travel on the San Diego and Arizona was like. It’s called the pacific southwest railway museum and they offer train rides through and area of the line as well as a museum with cool train cars and a steam locomotive

The 3 cars at mile 4 in your videos were built in the 1950s for the railways formerly known as Canadian Paciric Railway (now CPKC) for use on the Montréal-Rigaud commuter line in Québec, Canada. They were steam heated, no ventilation. In winter, they put a window glazing over the single pane windows to keep cars warmer. The service was taken over by government in early 1980s, and those cars were upgraded to electric heat (head end power) in late 1980s/early 1990s after tyhe govt started to buy new locomotives (which no onger generated steam for heating) and before it started to receive new cars (Comets) to replace them.

During the CP era, those cars were also sometimes used to haul skiers to Mont Tremblants and Mont Laurier up north (but generally service was on Budd RDCs). I have most likely ridden on at least one of those 3 cars in my life.
Earlier videos of the train line show these cars still intact and clean. Then with graffitti and recently , with the fire. The reporting mark on them is not that of CP, or AMT/EXO who owned the cars so they would have been sold off to someone. The fleet was much larger. I guess the last onwer foujd room for3 cars on that railway and woudl have found other "permanent" parking spots elsewhere.

At the time these cars stopped their service, the agency that operated them was called AMT , Agence Métropolitaine de Transport and there should still be its logo or signage on those cars.

That...was awsome adventure. Would love to know the history of events causing abandoned rail cars and route.

Thank you very much for the upload.

This should designate this as a national/state park

How sketchy is the one walk around section with mountain bikes?

Awesome video!!! Do you think it's safe to park by the tracks on that dirt road spaces as far as people breaking into your car?

Awesome video!!! Do you think this hike is too much for beginner hikers? I'm in pretty good shape but I don't know if this might be too much as far as elevation, heat, terrain, etc.

This is amazing! Wish I could have joined.