Eye on the Hills: Montclair Village train mural gradually coming to life

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Eye on the Hills: Montclair Village train mural gradually coming to life
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When the mural is complete, it will appear as if the train is entering Montclair via the same concrete trestle bridge that passed across Mountain Boulevard from 1913 to 1957 — transforming an unsig…

And now you see the old Sacramento Northern/Short Line engine pulling into town as if from a time machine. When the mural is complete, it will appear as if the train is entering Montclair via the same concrete trestle bridge that passed across Mountain Boulevard from 1913 to 1957 — transforming an unsightly abutment into an eye-popping tribute.

The railroad had two passenger stops in Montclair — Thornhill and Havens. Most trains were three cars long and received their power through a pole connected to a wire overhead. And just a note about the artist, John Pugh, who has ties to the Oakland hills. His expertise is in transforming nondescript pieces of infrastructure into amazing pieces of art with multiple levels of visual discovery.

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