Re: Sierra Valley Railroad

As of 1901 the Sierra Valley Railway had the following equipment:
3 - locomotives #1, 2, 3
23 - flat cars
5 - combination box cars
1 - combination coach & baggage car
2 - hand cars
This equipment is listed in the N-C-O Board of Directors minute book. In 1900 the SP won a foreclosure award against the SVRy for unpaid bills and then purchased this equipment and the railroad at sheriff's sale. The N-C-O then acquired the sheriff's sale certificates from the SP. The N-C-O then canceled the sheriff's sale and provided more money to the SVRy and its owner in exchange for a 3-year note. This appearently done to keep the SVRy operating.
The locomotives were Porter 2-6-0's that were obtained from the SP's narrow gauge operation in Oregon. The SP also sold a combine to the "SVRy;" for the year that the sale took place it could only have gone to the Sierra Valley.
Some time after the N-C-O renumbered its passenger car fleet and numbered its combination cars #10 and up it obtained the combine from the SVRy and it retained its #1 operating on the N-C-O.
Brian Norden