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Hi all. There are lots of available "adopt-a-highway" signs on 101, 37 or 121. If we had enough interest we could sign up for the program and get NWPRR.NET on the sign which might bring some extra…Continue
Started May 2
I've been wondering how many actual locomotives are still lingering at points along the line. I suppose the term "roster" isn't exactly the proper term to use, but I would like to see a list of…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Zachary M. Toler Feb 21.
Does anyone know the history of this NVR unit #62? For the last two weeks I've been working across the street from the NVR yard and I notice they use her as a switcher to push #72 and 73 around…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by P&SRkid Feb 12.
Hi everyone,It never ceases to amaze me to see how much phenomenal knowledge some of you have about railroads and the history of individual locomotives. Especially you younger guys. At 35 years of…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Isaac Kuster Feb 15.
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My daily commute takes me through Schellville and in the mornings I go through pretty early so 1922 and the Red Bandit are usually just sitting quietly in their cage. On the way home in the afternoon I always look to see if 2009 is out and about and sometimes she is back in the cage but facing north instead of south (I assume she turns around at the Novato "Y"? Please forgive my novice terminology if I'm incorrect). I haven't seen 1922 move from the back of the cage in a long time but this…
ContinuePosted on April 26, 2012 at 8:40pm — 9 Comments
It looks like the CFNR has an opening for conductor/engineer. Posted on 2/14/12. Simply choose California as the search parameter and it will come up.
http://www.railamerica.com/Employment/Opportunities.aspx
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 5:53am
Gary E. McCourt said… Hi Isaac, I'm actually near Davenport, CA. I live in Santa Cruz. I lived in Marin and Sonoma Counties til '88. Both my son and I have great memories of waiting for the Eureka bound Pool Freights, when we lived in Rohnert Park. The days of 100 car-plus trains !!
powerpawsnw said… powerpawsnw said… How best toput it? I guess that I'm the de facto CWR and FBRR + ULCpo historian. I've spent chunks of the last 30+ years researching and writing the three companies' definitive histories as a book manuscript, working title Redwood Trilogy. I more or less spent every August from 1963-1974 at a cabin m fols rented hard by the CWR tracks at MP 8.8 (right up the road was MP 9.0 "Ranch").
That said, I also used to work for CA state RR Museum (before moving to Portland OR 11 years ago) in the research, exhibits and library-collection departments, and then at CA State Archives. Lots of good material in both institutions if you know how to dig.
The bad wreck happened 5/8s of a mile below Summit after midnight...exact date escapes me off the top of my head tho' I have all the data on file at home (not there right now). Like a lot of fans, I initially assumed the remaining wreckage tossed down below the wreck site was evidence of a very bad, high speed wreck. Not so. CWR M of W people got lazy (as they tended to do) and pitched stuff they should have put in the reclaimable scrap lot down the hillside below grade. So still downhill below the wreck site is the racked cab of S-12 No.54 and bunch of smaller hardware including handrail segments, etc.
Back in Feb 1970, 1 month after the wreck, I persuaded a Sacramento pal to drive several of us up to Willits where we "inspected" the carcasses of units 51, 52 and 54 sitting 1/4 mile out of sight below the NWP depot. They were a major mess, heartbreaking, really. Little did I know then that the ex-McCRRR RS-12s were already on their way north to the CWR under lease. Their arrival and subsequent purchase healed the wounds of the losses! Alas, not all such wonderful things last forever...more's the pity.
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