Re: Photo at Bottom (Kimball's "Emma Nevada"

Most likely they will continue to be Grizzly Flats. After all they have now been that as long or longer than they were on the railroad.

Emma was on the NC from 1881 to 1938; that is 57 years. Then announced gift to OERM in 1990 and moved in 1992; that is 54 years and up to now it is 71 years as GF. The coach was also built in 1881 and bought by the Kimballs in 1938 -- it carried lettering for the C&C, SP's Nevada & California and then Southern Pacific during those years.

Also keeping them as Grizzly Flats reflects the early preservation work of Ward and Betty Kimball. Ward proposed to repaint the coach to C&C or SP for the donation; but our VP of Collections at that time talked him out of it stressing the desire to acknowledge their own efforts at preservation.

The coach is unique as it has only served as a coach. It has had different seating arrangements over the years -- but it was always a coach. Most other passenger cars existing from the early 1880s have spent time as work cars or on the ground. But not coach #5!

Brian Norden