I will be using this site to distribute information concerning restoration at the NCNGRR museum in Nevada City, California. Other sites such as the SPCRR, WSLC...
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pineconelumberng@...
pineconelumb...
Feb 11, 2011 7:28 pm
Glad to see you got this up and going. You guys are doing a heck of a job there. Herman is sending the forms to me to join your group and maybe join in on the...
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JOHN CHRISTENSEN
loosecaboose1
Feb 11, 2011 10:58 pm
Hello Dennis - Welcome aboard. Please feel free to announce the site to the SPNG. Glad you like the new museum restoration site. Hope you can come out and...
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pineconelumberng@...
pineconelumb...
Mar 1, 2011 12:06 am
Think your going to have to take off the Nevada County and just call your place California Narrow Gauge Museum. I was wondering when tank 2 was going to be...
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John
loosecaboose1
Mar 1, 2011 3:19 am
Hey Dennis - Tank car #4 is also at Bev Cola's but I don't have room for any more cars. I bought five of them - flats 276 & 300 which were totally dry rotted...
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Dennis Burke
pineconelumb...
Mar 1, 2011 8:32 am
Got your hands full. Love to restore tank but I may have an SPNG Box up here soon. Did you already try Randy Hees? Heard you sent info down to Owens Valley....
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John
loosecaboose1
Mar 1, 2011 1:07 pm
Dennis - Unfortunately the brake wheels and staffs have been liberated from the flats by the time I got there. Only caboose 4 still has a wheel on it. I will...
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edsshay
Apr 17, 2011 9:24 pm
Hi Dennis. i wonder if it would be possible to get any copies of those photos you took at Glen Tyra's .Maybe i could trade you some Wslc photos . Thanks. Ede ...
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wslcocaboose4
Oct 23, 2011 8:11 pm
Hello, i am new to the group and love to build models of the west side lumber co. including wslco boxcar #1. I was wondering if during restoration of one the...
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JOHN CHRISTENSEN
loosecaboose1
Oct 23, 2011 11:54 pm
Hello Tyler - We will be working on both caboose #1 & #4 next year. I can save a piece of siding from caboose #1 in the near future since it will be first to...
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wslcocaboose4
Oct 24, 2011 1:58 am
great thanks! i will contribute it into one of my models. I can most likly pick it up, let me know when when you start restoration. Tyler Virga...
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John
loosecaboose1
Jan 8, 2012 9:43 pm
Hi Group - Just letting everyone know that the WSLC caboose #4 was successfully moved from Placerville to the NCNG museum in Nevada City on Jan. 7th. I posted...
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hwcwsl
Jan 9, 2012 7:59 pm
John: Glad to hear that it finally got there! You've now got your hands full; both caboose #4 and caboose #1 ! Not to mention all sorts of other restorations...
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pineconelumberng@...
pineconelumb...
Jan 14, 2012 4:27 pm
Thanks John. That was a little disturbing. Not the type of caboose I want to talk about on this site. Dennis...
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John
loosecaboose1
Jan 14, 2012 5:20 pm
Thanks Hart. We will be starting the new underbody framing for caboose #1 next month. The long sills are shot on both ends. We are beginning with the cleaning...
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pineconelumberng@...
pineconelumb...
Mar 31, 2012 1:05 am
For the first time the Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge Historical Society will be leaving the high deserts of California and Nevada behind to conduct there 4...
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John
loosecaboose1
Apr 29, 2012 3:42 pm
A grant funding request to the NRHS has been submitted to the District 7 board and unamanously approved and sent forward for review and approval of funds. The...
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John
loosecaboose1
Aug 3, 2012 5:25 am
I'm posting current photo's of the rebuild of wslc caboose #4 rebuild. Also beginning to post photo's of the new frame up of Swayne caboose #1...
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RickyB
richardbell56
Jan 1, 2013 3:31 am
We wish all our fellow modelers the very best in the coming New Year.May your health and the economy enble you to do great things in your modeling! All our...
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pineconelumberng@...
pineconelumb...
Jan 30, 2013 8:37 pm
I would like to announce the first ever 4 day "SIERRA NARROW GAUGE CONFERENCE" to be hosted by the Nevada County Narrow Gauge RR Museum and co-hosted by the ...
