Oh come on... There's 4 locations to start laying track.
1) Nevada City, where the museum is.
2) Grass Valley, rebuild the station site and get the city to preserve the ROW along the sidewalk. Highly visable from &%*^#& Highway 49 it would be a great tourist trap to see the station, a couple boxcars, and a relocated-replica turntable sitting there.
3) Near the Empire Mine in the national forrest.
4) Colfax, the ROW could be relaid out of town. A railbus could be operated from the city as a fun raiser.
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Ok, you're right most of this is practiaclly impossible.
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But I do think the Colfax idea could fly and be used to drum up awareness of the RR and raise funds for the museum. The city of Colfax would probably go along with it too.
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Curtis F.