Re: WW&F Railway receives the Amherst Railway Society's 2016 Founders Grant Award
| February 04, 2016 03:42PM |
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I'm really excited about the turntable project, but I somehow hadn't realized how quickly it would be coming together! There are so many projects happening at the WW&F this year, either already underway or in the planning stages (e.g. turntable, boxcar 67 restoration, boiler work on No. 10, site preparation for the sawmill/shingle mill complex, and of course the continuing northward extension of the main line) that it's difficult to keep up. It makes me wish I didn't live 400 miles away so I would be able to get up there more often and help out.
For those who are curious, the original piece of turntable hardware mentioned above is one of the 8 queenpost caps that carried the truss rods (see red arrow below). It's amazing not only that a little piece of metal like that survived, but that the memory of what it was survived with it.
-Philip Marshall
For those who are curious, the original piece of turntable hardware mentioned above is one of the 8 queenpost caps that carried the truss rods (see red arrow below). It's amazing not only that a little piece of metal like that survived, but that the memory of what it was survived with it.
-Philip Marshall
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
The NGDF was started by Don Richter and is currently operated in his memory by Nathan Holmes and others. Others who have contributed to the upkeep of this board are (in no particular order): Charles McCandless, Everett Lueck, Ted Wilton, Cole Adams, James Bane, John Moellmer, Jon Bentz, Linn Moedinger, lloyd lehrer, Rod Jensen, John Craft, Steven Forney, Herb Kelsey, Bill Ramaley, Russ Sperry (El Russo Loco), Josh McNeal, John West, Jim Armstrong, Bob Bergstrom, Greg Scholl, Blake Forbes Doug van Veelen and Mark Fuller.