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Richard A Custer commented on Ron Close's photo

1st Carload Concrete Ties

"Back when I worked on the NWP the two tracks across from the depot were called track1 and 2 were used to hold and storage cars and to ran around rail cars also.The next track 3 went back next to the PMT dock for unloading and loading rail cars and…"

Sunday

P&SRkid commented on Ron Close's photo

1st Carload Concrete Ties

"Yeah this spur was almost completely buried last time I was out there, and I was surprised when I saw the car and some SMART MOW equop sitting on it yesterday. Most of the other spurs were buried up to the heads and over in some spots too."

Sunday

Steve Atnip commented on Ron Close's photo

1st Carload Concrete Ties

"Not directly pertaining to your question, but they kept telling us the car was going onto another spur because the switch was ???, meanwhile I can see a bunch of guys working on this spur, and eventually 2009 pushed onto this one. Ron & I dashed…"

Saturday

P&SRkid commented on Ron Close's photo

1st Carload Concrete Ties

"I've got a question, the tracks that the old passenger cars were stored on (and is now where SMART is storing their hy-railers) as well as this track here in the SR Depot area, what were they used for when they were installed? I know at one…"

Saturday

Ron Close posted a photo

1st Carload Concrete Ties

NWP 2009 backs the first carload of concrete ties into SMART's staging yard in Santa Rosa 5/24/12. The car has 288 ties (6 stacks of 40 and 1 stack of 48).

Friday

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Ron Close posted photos

May 19

Ron Close commented on Isaac Kuster's photo

A Room with a View

"I'd have trouble concentrating on work if I had a view like this!"

May 9

Ron Close commented on Steve Atnip's photo

It's almost as if they're planning on using this!

"A few months ago I was getting roster shots of each hopper car, and I didn't notice the dude sleeping under the third car from the end. My shutter click evidently woke him up and he started SCREAMING at me to "Get Away, Get…"

May 1

Ron Close commented on Mike Davis's event NorthWestern Pacific 1980-2012 "Decline & Revival"

"Very nice presentation, Mike - good job!"

Apr 24

Ron Close commented on Steve Atnip's photo

Incremental Transitional progress 4/19/12

"Inch by inch, letter by letter..."

Apr 19

Ron Close posted a photo

NWP 2009 @ Lakeville Crossing

Crossing Lakeville St., Petaluma with 18 grain hoppers in tow 3/29/12.

Apr 2

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Ron Close commented on Roger Graeber's video

New NorthWestern Pacific Railroad 2011 video (NWPRR)

"I highly recommend Roger Graeber's "The New Northwestern Pacific Railroad Co." video on DVD (2 discs / 2 hrs.). This high quality video covers NWP and associated rail operations during the time frame 1964 to 2011.…"

Apr 1

Ron Close replied to Dave S.'s discussion Trouble Connecting To This Site?

"Good job, Dave - you're hired! I started having problems with my Comcast connection here in Petaluma a couple months ago. I just reset my DNS settings for Mac using Google's (8.8.8.8) and it got me right in. Isn't…"

Mar 30

Ron Close commented on Mike Davis's event NorthWestern Pacific 1980-2012 "Decline & Revival"

"Thanks Mike - it's on my calendar."

Mar 24

Ron Close is attending Mike Davis's event

NorthWestern Pacific 1980-2012 "Decline & Revival" at Monroe Hall, 1400 West College Avenue

April 23, 2012 from 7:30pm to 10pm

I will be presenting my powerpoint on the NWP's recent history covering the Eureka Southern, North Coast Railroad, California Northern, 1996 NWP, John Darling NWP, SMART, the efforts to get the NWP operating again, plus much more. I esspecially invite B Richards, Ron Close, Gus Campanga, Tim Hallman, Jerry Kitts, Trevor McGinnis, Marty Erickson, Davis Estes, Richard Custer, and Mark Drury for contributeing photos, and any others who contributed photos.See More

Mar 24

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Ron Close replied to Chris's discussion connection problem

"Not working for me either this week. I do get email notifications to my Comcast inbox everytime this particular discussion thead is updated with new replies...which means the nwprr.net function has no problem connecting with me."

Feb 28

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