Drawbridge California - The little known South Bay ghost town

Drawbridge was created by the South Pacific Coast Railroad on Station Island in 1876 and consisted of one small cabin for the operator of the railroad's two drawbridges crossing Mud Slough and Coyote Creek. At the town's peak, 10 passenger trains stopped there per day, five going north and five going south.
In the 1880s, nearly 1,000 visitors flocked to the town on weekends . By the 1920s it had 90 buildings and was divided into two neighborhoods: the predominantly Roman Catholic South Drawbridge, and the predominantly Protestant North Drawbridge.
The town's last resident left in 1979. Drawbridge is now considered to be the San Francisco Bay Area's only ghost town.

[@FlyinCameras]

Love this!

[@DroneJunkieRc]

Nice work

[@DroneJunkieRc]

Nice work 👌

[@jonmacdonald5345]

Back In olden times folks used to bust their gats at ducks out there!

[@dusterl1472]

Awesome video. I've watched a few of them now, including ones at the Dumbarton rail bridge, and I was just wondering, are there any issues with flying in the bay? I ask because I'm doing/wanting to do some fixed wing fpv and I've been hesitant to take my plane out. CA as a whole seems so restrictive on... Well... Everything... I'm out of San Mateo but I've done most of my flying south of half moon bay thus far...

[@evmoFPV]

Thank you! I've never had an issue flying anywhere. Avoid the airports and don't do anything to endanger anyone and it should be fine. Remember, that it's all about where you launch. Municipal and state governments can only restrict where you take off and land, once you're airborne it's out of their jurisdiction. The FAA cleared that up in a memo they released a few years ago.