Re: Ray maker steam outlines

tractor Wrote:
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> One mistake in Ed's information is the guy in
> Biggs doesn't own the one form Kennedy Park which
> is Hayward. It was in the park till last month
> when it moved to central California area.

That was Olin talking, not me — I've been to that park so I know it's Hayward There was at least one Maker train in Alameda, though, which was the Viewliner-lookalike in the aforementioned blog post. No clue where the Biggs stuff came from, but wondering it might have been the second Oakland Zoo train, which was a 4-4-0 outline and the first to go.

Hank Pastorino, who bought the Maker train that Erich Thomsen had, is still running the farm in Half Moon Bay last I was aware, though the current battery engine they were using with one of the coaches is a homebuilt job. The farm in Oregon is gone, so unsure where that one went. The Daylight-painted PA down in Carpinteria was still local, last I heard.

As for the park in Merced, I don't believe they have the Aerotrain anymore but do still run a smaller outline with Maker's mark (see what I did there?) all over it. The coaches seem to be from an MTC G-16 with a caboose that also looks to have Maker lineage.