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Noticed an article in today's Sacramento Bee about the Clarksburg sugar mill: http://sacbee.com/content/news/story/10935539p-11852909c.html That, combined with...
It's Crunch Time and The Portola Museum Needs Your Help Preserving Rare Quincy/Southern Pacific/EMD Demo Diesel Locomotive ! In 1950, EMD built their first...
We're still looking for help during the FRRS/Portola Railroad Museum Work Week starting October 9. As a special gift to those who can help out, we will be...
URL Correction, the URL should be: http://www.wplives.org/FRRS_Home/Donate/donate.html Blame it on Eugene...he wrote this hehehehe ... From: "David Epling"...
UPDATE: With less than 24 hours passing since the transportation requirement was announced, $895 has already been donated toward the estimated $5000 required ...
Hi yall, A steel CNS&M car, no. 154, is available from the Ohio Railway Museum to the best offer and best home they can find for it. I don't know if it would...
There happen to be some good photos for sale on Ebay showing Key trains and car 271. Even if you don't want to bid, the preview photos are large enough just to...
Does anybody out there know if the SN had a switch key with the letters SNSY? The "SY" I was told was for "stockyard". Can anyone shead any information on...
Those SNSY keys are fakes, pure and simple. A correct SNRy key will say just that. There are SNRR keys out there with Northern Electric bits BTW. ~Bill...
Hello all, Has anyone noticed recent construction on some areas of the Sacramento Northern ROW in Oakland? (1) 40th & Shafter: demolition of the condemned...
The Portola Railroad Museum is open 10-5 daily March thru October. As we are coming up to the end of the tourist season, and winter has come early to the...
Listers, The Portola RR Museum's *monthly* Trainsheet has been hurting for articles. One of the things I sent to the Trainsheet Editor was to pick up on an old...
Well, the fast approaching weather is going to require that we winterize the museum a bit early this year. We're setting up a quick work weekend for the last...
Debra -- Are they really constructing something on Reata Place itself? I know that there is some construction off of the Rock LaFleche access road, but I'm...
Hi Everybody-- Working TWO jobs doesn't leave too much time to play.. But I wanted to let everyone know that I hadn't forgotten my idea about doing a ...
... Just put them all together on a DVD, Ken. Stop wasting time writing about what you have to do. :-) I was on several of those excursions, had no decent...
Yes, we can dream. How about dreaming that Mr. Cabaldon wears out his welcome in West Sac. and moves to some higher office like all the rest of them. That guy...
Effective immediately, we are returning to an approval only format for membership. this is due to in the last 24 hours, we have seen 3 attempts to spam the...
That is the best thing to do. I have had to do it with most of my 47 groups as the spam has increased dramatically in the last three months. I was beginning to...
Greetings: I have some confusion about the timeline of the SN near the end of western electric operations -- 1957. Even though I observed SN freight...
The timeline shown in Garth's site is correct. I have a copy of the Coast Guard letter to the SN lifting the Ramon's certificate as of April 7, 1954 unless...
Tom, Perhaps you could scan that and post it in files? If RAMON had stayed running longer would that have made much difference on keeping the south end of...
Thanks for the reply. But I have no answer to my question. I guess what I am asking now that it's confirmed that the Ramon stopped operating in April, 1954, ...
Norm: You have it right, diesel via WP-Santa Fe from Sacramento to Pittsburg, then SN (electrified) to Oakland. The Subway was on this main line. The track...
Sir Norm-- After the Lisbon Trestle collapse in 1951, the SN eventually rebuilt the trestle. But all service South of Sacramento to Chipps was dieselized.....
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