Re: NG and RR preservation happenings that you are thankful for?
| January 19, 2009 08:49PM |
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Hi, Andrew -
I've been involved with #2472 in a small way almost from the very beginning, since the West Bay Model RR Club took the Freedom Train's engine crew and a couple of us volunteers to dinner in early December of 1975 when the train was on display in San Jose. Mike Mangini of the WBMRRC instigated Project 2472, and traveled with the AFT as a volunteer as much as possible in 1976 to learn all he could about maintaining and operating a steam engine.
The Memorial Day trips in Niles Canyon were great! I rode the photo special on Friday, and again with my daughter & one of her uncles for two trips on Sunday.
- Russ
p.s. Here's "Resurrection" - 2472's return to service in May of 1991:
The southbound Pacific Shore Limited in September, 1992 (northbound a week later was called The Earth Train):
... and the San Luis Obispo Centennial Special in 1994:
I've been involved with #2472 in a small way almost from the very beginning, since the West Bay Model RR Club took the Freedom Train's engine crew and a couple of us volunteers to dinner in early December of 1975 when the train was on display in San Jose. Mike Mangini of the WBMRRC instigated Project 2472, and traveled with the AFT as a volunteer as much as possible in 1976 to learn all he could about maintaining and operating a steam engine.
The Memorial Day trips in Niles Canyon were great! I rode the photo special on Friday, and again with my daughter & one of her uncles for two trips on Sunday.
- Russ
p.s. Here's "Resurrection" - 2472's return to service in May of 1991:
The southbound Pacific Shore Limited in September, 1992 (northbound a week later was called The Earth Train):
... and the San Luis Obispo Centennial Special in 1994:
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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