Phil,
Let me extend an offer from another direction!
2 hours or so to the East to be imprecisely exact. Reedley, Ca. (near Fresno). After you're setteled in you need to come vist us at the 15" gauge Hillcrest & Wahtoke RR.
I've been entranced by tall-tales (and long video clips) of "The Great Phil Reader" from the likes of Jeff Badger and John Bishop. I'll buy you, and any other former GLR people you can convince to come along, dinner.
Take care & safe journey,
Curtis F.
PS. Thank you for all the information the locomotives, equipment and general goings-on at the loop.
PPS. One stipulation about the dinner thing, the more GLR people you bring the more likly it is we'll go out to Taco Bell.
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