From the Winter 2024 Issue of "Coast Mail" (#90)
More signals along the Walk of History
It's great to have a truck and crane to move large
and heavy items. When you don't have them, you
improvise. Above, Ted Van Klaveren (red shirt) and
Equipment & Restoration Superintendent Brad LaRose
are doing so, using hand trucks at each end of the mast
for a grade-crossing signal. This particular signal and its twin warned drivers
approaching the Camp San Luis Obispo track on Colony Drive, which is now the main entry to California
Men's Colony (CMC) [Summer 2018 Coast Mail]. CMC
donated them to the Museum about 2005. More...
Modeling Southern Pacific's Engine Facilities at SLO
The sand house model was built in 2008
from photos and Southern Pacific plans in the
archives of the California State Railroad
Museum in Sacramento. The heavy framing
wood is weathered and distressed. Many
vertical framing members had rotted, so they
had to be replaced by short struts driven into
the ground and bolted to the existing member. The metal roof had rusted and worn over
time, exposing the wood below. The new sand
supply pipes required the addition of a
vertical support at the northeast end of the
sand house.
PCRy cars in Alaska
Eighty years after the last train ran on the Pacific Coast Railway, few large pieces of rolling stock
exist. But in PCRy's twilight years, just after the
Railway & Locomotive Historical Society's 1937
excursion, four narrow-gauge passenger cars were
loaded on standard-gauge flatcars near Southern
Pacific's SLO roundhouse. Their destination was
nearly 3,000 miles north. More...
And much more...
