Re: If Ansel Adams had "foamed" the YVRR . . .

hank Wrote:
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> Think of all the neat pictures we'd have of the old
> Yosemite RY!    

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> On page 153 of 'The Age of Steam' Beebe & Clegg
> refer to "the Yosemite Valley Railroad . . .

hank Wrote:
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> I've heard both but must admit the only references I
> have do all say Yosemite Valley.  Not enough coffee,
> I guess.
>
> Considering the state the roads around there have
> been in for the last 50 years or more, perhaps ab-
> andoning the YV in 1945 was a tad premature?


Just a tad, Hank — Just a tad . . .    

OTOH, if the Yosemite Valley had survived it probably would have been extended to Wawona if not into the Park itself, and we would probably be witnessing the revival of at least one of its 1950-1965 fleet of a half-dozen Budd RDC cars as a double-decker plug-in hybrid today . . .    

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