Highway 84 Stroll and Roll ~ Sunday, September 22, 2019

We attended the Highway 84 Stroll and Roll, a once-ever-other-year (there's a word for that which I can't spell) closing of Niles Canyon Road to car traffic, so that people can walk/run/bike/scooter/whatever up the canyon.

You can get a nice view of the rights-of-way of the two railways that go up the canyon (one being the Niles Canyon Railway, formerly Southern Pacific, and originally Western Pacific (1862-1870), and the other being ACE-Rail/Union Pacific, formerly the (better known) Western Pacific (‎1903–1983)).

And Alameda Creek itself, too.

Our friends from the Niles-Essenay Silent Film Museum had a display at the site of the closing scene of Charlie Chaplin's The Tramp, where we tried on hats:

We biked as far up as the Niles Canyon Railway yard at Brightside. Wigwag!

There are a few other things you can notice at bike speed that you can't see while driving (especially on a twisty road where you really shouldn't be lollygagging while driving), like this masonry culvert under the NCRY/SP/WP right-of-way, which might well date from the original construction in the 1860's.

I also saw this random Christmas display, which as far as I know is up all year.

After this ride lunch at Bronco Billy's Pizza was in order.