Santa Cruz Railway
| September 18, 2010 04:06PM |
A recent trip to Washington, D.C. took me to the Smithsonian and the Transportation musuem, home of SRY No. 1401, beutifully displayed. I was surprised to find another locomotive looking not unlike the Eureka. It was also a narrow gauge 4-4-0, built 1876 for the Santa Cruz railroad in California, then sold to a banana grower in South America, and in 1976 donated to the Smithsonian for the U.S. Bicentennial.
The lighting in the museum was horribly dark. It looked sort of sad, sitting on a short length of rail inside the museum, instead of out on the open road where it belongs.
The lighting in the museum was horribly dark. It looked sort of sad, sitting on a short length of rail inside the museum, instead of out on the open road where it belongs.
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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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