Abandoned town of Laws, California & its Railroad near Bishop

Fond memories of driving through these towns and places during my growing up years. Thank you for sharing!

That place is a goldmine. So many places to go, and be given glimpses of the past. Thank you so much, Jeff and Sarah. I totally enjoyed this from start to finish. I think I could spend an entire day there.👏🏻🤠🤗👏🏻

Great history of the area. For an out-of-the-way museum it certainly has lots to see and learn about. Always nice to see some old things preserved for future appreciation.

Those mules I think are part of the borax 20 mule team wagon. I used to live in Ridgecrest and have been through Bishop hundreds of times. Thanks for the memories

The railroad never ran to Carson City. The Carson and Colorado Railroad went over Montgomery Pass and reached Mound House, Nevada. It was narrow guage. After the line to Mina was standard guaged, at Mina it met up with the standard guage railroad (originally Central Paciic, then Southern Pacific,). The Carson and Colorado Railroad abandoned the route over Montgomery Pass and was renamed Southern Pacific Railroad (still narrow guage with 3 foot between the rails). They continued to interchange with the standard guage Southern Pacific at nearby Ownyo. The narrow guage continued to run south to Keeler and transported minerals - including Talc and Perlite. The turntable, oil and water tanks are original (and original location)

Hi.... the two of you really know how to make history come alive. I only faithfully follow 3 youtube vloggers. Yours is my favorite! Please continue to make these fantastic vlogs

Hamilton’s portrait is beautiful!! ✨🏆✨

I was stationed at Norton AFB, San Bernardino (87’-93’). A bunch of us would travel up the 395 to Mammoth to ski every year passing through Bishop. Being young and foolish, we never “stopped to smell the roses” such as the Laws, CA. Thank you so much for this! God bless you two and have a Merry Christmas! By the way… LOVED your imitation of my favorite president Ronald Reagan!

I live in Bishop and glad you made it to Laws! It’s got so many pieces history!

I would love to visit this place! Thank you for taking us along for the tour! I worked for a jeweler back in the mid 90’s. He collected Lionel trains. He had a full village with trains set up in his basement. I could watch that for hours. There was a blacksmith shop next to my grandparents house. When I would go stay there on vacation in the early 60’s my cousin and I would go in it. There was old parts and equipment in there from who knows when. My cousin and I would say it smelled old in there. 😊A young craftsman bought my grandparents house in the 80’s. He cleared out the old equipment but kept the building intact. He uses it as his wood shop. It is still half moon shaped with the old red wood. Those horses were there to say hi to Sarah for her birthday! 🎂🎈🎉

Thanks Jeff and Sarah for a lovely step back in time at Bishop. History is so much better when you see it first hand, see how people lived and worked.

Jeff, thanks to you and Sara for putting in the time and expense to travel to these different points in time. Although this was a simpler time, these were hard times. Very interesting. I love history!

I grew up in bishop and spent my childhood summers riding my bike to laws almost every weekend. It’s the first place I fell in love with history. There was talks years ago about restoring the train and creating a tourist line (along the old route) similar to the ones in Colorado, or the Verde Valley in Arizona. A few years back they got the Death Valley rail car running for trips up and down the functional track. The library at laws is the original Presbyterian church from in town. The current 20 mule team is almost a staple of the Rose Parade down in Pasadena. I’m so happy to see that laws is still an area attraction. It’s tan solely by volunteers and there’s an entire community of railroad enthusiasts who raise money to keep it open.

Take Sarah back in May for Bishop Mule Days, she will love it! Great video Sarah & Jeff!

Jeff , Sarah ,good morning guys , the quality of your work gets better. On every one of your video's ! I look forward to every Sunday to watch your new video .. THANK YOU FRANK FROM MONTANA. PS.. Nevada Smith was a great movie, but then again EVERY movie he made was great also tv. Series " wanted dead or alive ......

I have been through that area a thousand times, and never new that place ever existed. I will have to stop there the next time through. Thanks for the video on this place Jeff and Sarah. Travel safe!

Your son’s picture of Hamilton is very good. I’ve always wanted to travel to some of these ghost towns but I’m always working. Taking a dump and bath with the option of clean water made me laugh. 😂

Hi Jeff and Sarah that is so cool that little museum is the neatest little museum it's great to see you little places like that still exists I love the view of the mountains driving into it hard to imagine though that they film Nevada Smith their how many years ago was that seems like a hundred years I've seen about a Smith I really liked it it was good that is a cool place those little items there for the kitty was cute too ❤️ that you were at I love it thanks for this video I really enjoyed it have a safe day and thanks for taking us with you along the trip. ♥️👍🙋

Fascinating place. Happy birthday Sarah!

🎉🎉🎉🎉 Happy Birthday Sarah 🎉🎉🎉