S·IERRA RAILWAY

OURNA The Offici~J Publication of the Sierra Railway Historical Society

SIERRA RAILWAY

JOURNAL The Official Publication of the

Sierra Railway Historical Society

NUMBER FOUR SPRING 1993 Journal Staff: Editor ........ )' ...................... ?curt Bianchi Associate Editor ................. Lari:y Jensen Contributing Editors .............. Kyle Wyatt

Ted Benson Malloi:y Hope Ferrell

Cartographer ....................... Rick Mugele

Contents: Rail town Report ........................... Page 3 The Sierra at Nigh_t ....................... Page 6 The Stanislaus River Bridge ....... Page 14 Business Member Directoi:y ........ Page 18 SRHS Shopper ........................... Page 19 :Balltown Calendar ...................... Page 20

Submission of Material: Articles, photographs, and news about Railtown, the Sierra Railway. or related topics are welcome. Material or queries should be sent to: Curt Bianchi 12234 Brookglen Drive Saratoga. CA 95070 (408) 973-8110 Publication is not assured and there is no compensation. (Only gloi:yl) Please in­clude return postage with submissions.

Subscriptions:

Curt Comments

New Member Benefits This issue of the Sierra Railway Journal completes our first year of pub­lishing. Actually, it took us a little longer than a year to get four issues done, but we crune pretty close! Our charter members will find a renewal letter included with this issue. Most of the charter members joined the SRHS without knowing just what they were getting into. When we got the SRHS started last spring, we had no tangible benefits or products other than an advertising flyer, but we signed up about 70 members before the first Journal was published. (Since then we've grown to well over 200 docent and Historical Society members.) We certainly appreciate your faith in us early on, and we hope you have been pleased with our activi­ties and we look forward to your continued membership.

• As promised in the last Journal,, I run pleased to announce two new SRHS member benefits. First, the Railtown concessionaire has generously pro­vided a two-for-one discount for SRHS members on "Mother Lode Can­nonball" excursions at Railtown 1897 State Historic Park. You will be able to exercise this benefit once during each year of membership, and you can use the two-for-one discount to purchase a total of four tickets (two paid, two free). A membership card will be mailed to you shortly, which you must present at the Railtown ticket office to receive your two­for-one discount. Second, by arrangement with the California State Rail­road Museum, SRHS members will receive two free admission tickets to the Railroad Museum. These admission tickets will be mailed shortly to all active members. The combined value of these benefits is $28, so using them will more than pay for your SRHS membership. We thank Railtown concessionaire Larry Ingold, and Cathy Taylor of the California State Railroad Museum for making these benefits possible. ' The Sierra Railway Journal is published

quarterly by the Sierra Railway Historical Society, a project of the Railtown 1897 / • Docent .ASsociation, a California non- /The last issue of the Journal contained Larry Jensen's piece describing profit coxporation. Subscriptions are , ffi b 1 b ld 1 ti 1 included as a benefit of Historical Society / , Gerald M. Best's e arts to o tain rep acement ui ers p ates or ocomo-membership. A membership application/ tive No. 3. The new plates were unveiled on No. 3's first outing after being appears on the back cover. Dealer terms\ rebuilt, a Railway & Locomotive Historical Society excursion on May 30, are also available. Send membership and\ 1 f h' d f th · · business correspondence to: \ 1948. Al Rose wrote to re ate some o · is own anec otes rom at trip. Railtown 1897 Docent Association \ "When Jerry sent the plates, he asked that the application of the new P.O. Box 1001 'plates be kept secret because he wanted to listen to comments during the Jamestown, CA 95327 excursion.Sure enough, he enjoyed hearing the arguments pro and con Railtown 1897 Docent Association · b~tween various railfans on whether the plates had been on the engine 1993 Board of Directors: all\the timK (and just not noticed), or were new additions. At least fifty President ................................ Bob Boyle per~ent of,_ the comments were that the plates had always been on the Vice President ................. David Johnson srnbkebox!-~'

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Norm Little Joe Bispo as ~ell as 'the second installment of John Scott's series on the Angels

Copyright© 1993 Railtown 1897 Docent brartch. My thanks to Ted and John, as well as to George Sapp, Joe Association. All rights reserved. The con- Bispo, Larry Jensen, Linda Scott, and Guy Dunscomb. See ya next time! tents of this magazine may not be reprinted without the permission of the publisher. Typeset entirely on Apple Mac­intosh computers with Framemaker soft­ware by Frame Technology Coxporation .

. Printed in the U.S.A by Valley Color Graphics, Inc., Modesto, California.

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On the cover: Sierra enginemen Mike Pardina and Ed DeGiobbl wait at Warn­erville on a winter's eve, ready to couple helper engine No. 28 ahead of the diesel road unit returning from Oakdale on an eastbound dinner train, Decem­ber 4, 1976. Photo by Ted Benson.

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Railtown News Compiled and edited by Curt Bianchi

Third Annual "Walking the Rails of Yesteryear" O, The Railtown 1897 Docent Asso­ciation will present the third "Walk­ing the Rails of Yesteryear'' living

groups of up to fifteen visitors will be guided throughout the park, where various scenes will be pre­sented. Stops will include the roundhouse, the machine shops, and the restoration shop. Following the presentation, a delightful rail­roaders dinner will be served in the

history program. During the picnic area of the park. evening of Saturday, September 18, visitors to Railtown 1897 state For railfans the event is a rare Historic Park will be able to take a opportunity to see some of Rail­step back into the colorful railroad- town's historic equipment in opera­ing history of the Sierra Railway in tion. In particular, the Model T California's Mother Lode district. railcar will run, the belt-driven Railtown docents, as well as machine shop will be operated, and Columbia docents and other the roundhouse will be manned, friends, will stage a number of including the blacksmith's forge. vignettes depicting Sierra railroad- *1ong with No. 28, locomotive No. 3 ing long since past. Individual /~ill be steamed up for the event.

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Tickets are $20.00 per person. Ticket sales are limited and reser­vations are required.

For ticket sales and reservations:

Railtown 1897 State Historic Park (209) 984-3953

For further information:

Railtown 1897 Docent Association P.O. Box 1001 Jamestown, CA 95327 (209) 984-3248

Beaver Creek Model Company O Beaver Creek.· Model Company has a history of importing authen­tic brass replicas of famous short­line railroads. Yosemite Valley and Virginia & Truckee fans have many Beaver Creek models gracing their layouts and collections.

Beaver Creek now plans to recreate many Sierra Railroad pieces in HO scale. Three-truck Shay locomotive No. 12, 2-8-0 Consolidation No. 28, and the "blackjack" hopper cars are already on the drawing board. Bulletins and bimonthly newslet­ters announcing these pieces are available for the asking. The bulle-

Left: Locomotive No. 28 leads the ~Mother Lode Cannonball· on Rail­town's opening day, March 6, 1993. Number 28 made it out· of the shops just in the nick of time after undergo­ing major boiler work over the winter, a task the shop crews completed in two months. Joseph T. Bispo photo.

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Right: Sierra Railroad No. 42 undergo­ing repairs In the Jamestown round­house, where Don McCoy uses the drop table to remove one of the loco­motive's traction motor and axle assemblies. Photo by George Sapp.

tins include approximate costs, bits of history and photos of each project.

Future plans .depend on customer . demand. Beaver Creek would like to produce the Angels Branch cars which, incidently, were pulled by Shay No. 12. Locomotives No. 38 and No. 3 are also high on the list.

Unfortunately,. past response to brass models of Sierra equipment has been lukewarm. Beaver Creek proposed some Sierra models a few years ago but did not receive enough response to proceed with the project. A project by Precision Scale Company was also shelved some years back for the same rea­son. So if you're interested, let Bea­ver Creek hear from you!

Beaver Creek Model Company P.O. Box 609 Tuolumne, CA 95379 (209) 532-8090 FAX: (209) 532-8543

1994 Park. Bond , I

Measure Proposed~ O The Planning and Conservation\ League, a private, non-profit parks advocacy group, has proposed a $2 billion Park and Wildlife Bond Mea­sure which they hope to put on the June 1994 ballot via the initiative process. Among the projects that would be funded· by the measure are several submitted by the Cali­fornia State Railroad Museum Foundation, including acquisition of the Sierra Railroad for the State Park System [would that be great or what?), and rehabilitation of Railtown 1897 State Historic Park.

-On Track!, published by the Cali­fornia State Railroad Musewn

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O Sierra Railroad No. 42 spent a I

week in the Jamestown round-ho~se hav.:ing its traction motor replaced after it suffered a "flash over." Ordinarily this type of work is performed at the Oakdale enginehouse using electric screw jacks borrowed from the Amador Central, but they weren't available

so the Sierra Railroad took advari., tage of the roundhouse's drop table. The drop table was added to the roundhouse in 1922 for replac­ing steam locomotive driver sets.

Unfortunately, shortly after the work was completed No. 42 cracked a cylinder head, putting it out of service once again. The Sierra is now down to one operating

One topic discussed was the repro­duction of Sierra Railway track plans and drawings by Sierra Chief EngineerW. H. Newell. These draw­ings include hard-written updates by Newell to 1924. We have access to reproductions of these drawings; the originals were most likely destroyed when the Jamestown depot burned in 1978. The draw:.

locomotive, with No. 44 running four days a week, one direction each day,. between Oakdale and Fassler. Sierra No. 40 has been out of service for years, and has been cannibalized for parts. I've heard various rumors about how the Sierra might address its motive power situation. In perhaps the most ironic scenario, the' Sierra has asked permission to use one of state's ex-military Alco RSX-4 loco­motives, which were donated to the State of California by the United States Navy. As late as last New Year's Eve the Sierra denied the Railtown concessionaire's request to operate one the locomotives, claiming it would damage the tracks. This despite the fact the railroad permitted the locomotives on the tracks to get to Railtown, and despite the fact that these loco­motives were designed to run on track built to relatively light stan­dards.

· ings are large, but it is hoped to reproduce them full-size and make them available to SRHS members in sections, starting at Oakdale.

Spring Filming on the Sierra D In March Railtown and the Sierra Railroad were the sites for the filming of a television pilot enti­tled "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr." Most of the shooting /

took place near Chinese Camp,/ using locomotive No. 3, shorty\ combine No. 5 (made up as a prison car with bars on the windows), a \ box car, and caboose No. 7. Rail­town concessionaire Larry Ingold had . a role as the train engineer. The pilot should ·air· later this year on the Fox network.

SRHS Meetings

Modeling was a:lso a topic of discus­sion. Rick Mugele brought his HOn2-l/2 "Yosemite Short Line in a suitcase." Glen Tyra brought his ha:lf-inch sca:le West Side Shay No. 15 for everyone to drool over, as

well as an original blueprint of the Angels turntable with Newell's sig­nature on the back. It looked like a standard Southern Pacific turnta­ble like the one at Laws, California and at the Nevada State Railroad Museum. Plans for upcoming meetings include an Al Rose slide show, a Jamestown shop tour, and Paul McClenehan's father's films of the Sierra and West Side in the 1950s.

Meetings are held on the second Saturday of the month starting at 11 :00 a.m. Lunch is available for a $2.50 donation. Give John Scott a ca:ll at (209) 533-9522 for more information. Also check the calen­dar in this issue of the Journal.

-John Scott

O John Scott has begun leading monthly Sierra Railway Historical Society meetings. The meetings provide an opportunity to gather with other members to discuss var­ious aspects of the Sierra. The sec­ond meeting was held on May 8, with seven members present.

Above: Locomotive No. 3 storms across Sullivan Creek Trestle as part of a pho­tographer's special on February 6, 1993, sponsored by the Railtown concession-aire. Photo by Joseph T. Bispo. ·

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The Sierra After Dark Photographs and Text by Ted Benson

The hazy winter sun has surren­dered at an early hour this second Saturday of December 1977, and the air is fragrant with scents of burning oak and cedar. Christmas is two shopping weeks away and the mood in the Mother Lode turns toward hearth and home. Around the collected conifers in many foot­hill living rooms, toy trains vie for attention amid the tinsel and other traditional trappings. In the woods lining Woods Creek, the Sierra Rail­road's real live trains of tradition command attention, their passage proclaimed by distant chime whis­tles and the growing thunder of a steam locomotive working hard against an adverse grade.

By day, the railroad is difficult to ignore.

After dark, the Sierra seems larger than life.

Railroading has always been a tw~nty-four hour business, a fact lost on most shortlines where the clock tends to run twelve hours a day between dawn and dusk. But the Sierra has never been a typical ~hortline. When diesel supplanted steam on revenue freight service in 1955, Sierra's twelve-hour clock

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ass~med a noon-to-midnight shift as one crew took on the work of two.

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wins 40 and 42 in the Oakdale engine house.

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Jamestown·~:; revival as an operat-ing h~b in 1971 only added to the nocturnal J:Dystique. Dick Rey­nolds''1, philosophy of excursions and entertainment [Sierra Railway Journdl Number 2] created a num­ber of schedules that made the night their special venue. Through­out the 1970s, the Sierra offered a

steam after dark experience unmatched in the nation.

The action was robust, as por­trayed (left) by Mikado No. 34 and diesel No. 44 storming the 2.5% grade westbound out of Woods Creek Canyon with a dinner train in tow on December 10, 1977. And the Sierra after dark was subtle, as witnessed by Consolidation No. 28 (above), leisurely filling her tender under the Warnerville water col­umn in December 1976, as the 2-8-0 helper waited for a diesel-pow­ered dinner train to return from Oakdale. By the late 1970s, the Sierra was as much a steam rail­road as it was diesel, perhaps more so considering the two hundred plus stream trips carded out of Jamestown during the regular tourist season. The railroad had been trying to dieselize for twenty years - and failed, gloriously.

By day, the Sierra had become a timeless treasure.

At night, time stood still.

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The hills and plains between Jamestown and Oak­dale are one of California's loneliest, lea~f-.popu­lated landscapes. On moonless winter nights in the late 1970s, Sierra trains were often the only sign of life. ·

December 1976 finds helper No. 28 pdusing on the wye at Cooperstown (above), where th~ 2-8-0 will turn and run light to water at Warnerville a.fter road engine No. 44 departs for Oakdale with the west­bound dinner train. An ex-Great Northern heater car, left over from GN's Cascade Tunnel electrifica­tion, charges the passenger train's steam line. \

Three miles west of Cooperstown, a nippy Ded!'lm­ber's eve in 1977 sees 2-8-2 No. 34 filling up from d fire hose at Warnerville (left), where the water tank that gained celluloid immortality in High Noon disiinte­grates in a final winter of drought and dry rot. St~am power on the ~supper Specials" had been redUf::ed to supporting roles, saving a few miles and gallons of fuel, creating in the process an aura of ~everyday" railroading that recalled America's steam-diesel transition period two decades before. 1.

Ten years earlier, the Friday after Thanksgiving foui;id a short freight pausing at Keystone (right) to add a few chip gons before Baldwin No. 42 dropped down Dry Creek Canyon on the way home to Oakdale. Electric markers on caboose No. 7 cast cheery

accents of red and green in the misty air as conductor Al Moreno sat down at his desk to make one last addition to the wheel report for November 24, 1967.

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service ending on uncertain terms, the future much in doubt. On this festive December 31, 1989, Jamestown's success as a state historic park is just cause for full-throttle celebration.

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Twenty-one years after High Noon, the hour is closer to mid­night as filmmaker Stanley Cramer returns to the Sierra to gather footage for Oklahoma Crude. Production crews cre­ate ethereal lighting effects in the Jamestown yard on November 20, 1972 as Rogers No. 3 simmers in a ghostly sil­houette (left), before making a switching move off the main­line (right). Alas, all but a split second of the Three-Spot's efforts wound up on the cutting room floor.

A much warmer evening in Jamestown (above) finds Bald­win No. 34 being put to bed by enginemen Mike Pardina and Joe Francis on July 31, 1971. This memorable Saturday night has seen the handsome 2-8-2 make the first of countless dinner runs to come, a service destined to add immeasurably to the magic that will always be the Sierra after dark.

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Hiking the Angels Branch

The Stanislaus River Bridge .1

By October of 1992, several years {)f · drought · in California had reduced the waters of the New Mel­ones reservoir to a river running through the Stanislaus River can­yon near the site of the old town of Melones. This provided a unique opportunity to investigate the remains of the area. Last fall I made five trips to the canyon bot­tqm to locate and measure what I found.

Among the more prominent man­made objects in the canyon are the piers that supported the Sierra Railway's Stanislaus River bridge. At over 550 feet in length, the bridge was the longest on the Sierra. It consisted of three sec­tions: a 144-foot trestle on the Tuolumne County (south) side, a 140-foot truss section in the mid­dle, and a 272-foot curved trestle on the Calaveras County side. Many of the concrete piers to either

Text and Drawings by John Scott

side of the truss section still stand. From a distance they give the can­yon the appearance of having a lower set of teeth. Up closer, they look like old war relics used to turn back invading tanks.

In my search for information on the Pendola switch [Sierra Railway Journal Number 2] I found no drawings of the bridge, so I took measurements of the piers with the help of my wife, who because of her interest in the Sierra Railway endured the hot and cold days and kept me from stumbling around in the dark.

Upon close inspection of the piers, the most striking find was the marks on the outside of each pier. You could almost make out wood grain cast into the concrete. I deduced that the marks are from the outer bent post crossing the

1tipper corner of the piers. At the

bottom of the piers there are square holes where the mud sills crossed through the piers and some were filled in and patched. This led me to believe that the piers were added while the bridge was standing.

In checking area history, and inspecting photographs chronolog­ically, I found that the bridge was originally constructed with wood bents, and the concrete piers replaced the lower bents in 1926, when the Old Melones Dam was constructed with the Sierra's help. Supporting this date is a grocery list I happened upon in a local antique shop. It dates when the bridge crew constructed the con­crete piers: February 1-24, 1926. It has the Sierra Railway voucher attached. See if you have check #03808, dated March 12, 1926.

Above: A view of the Calaveras County side of th'e Stanislaus River canyon in October, 1992. The missing fourth pier set from the left was probably removed for vehicle access. Note the notches at the top of the piers where the bent sides crossed the replacement piers. The hole at the bottom of the far right pier was for the mud sill. In front of the ~econd pier from the right is a small steel tube filled with concrete which held up the mud sills. John Scott photo.

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With the piers containing the bent impressions, I was able to obtain the dimensions for the bents. So I went to the 1916 ICC photos with a magnifying glass in order to make drawings of the bridge. Up to then I had believed that the truss section of the bridge was made of steel. However, under magnification cer­tain photos plainly reveTu.l that the truss section was constructed with .. large wood beams. The inner four diagonals are two-inch wide flat steel. The vertical deck cross brac­ing, and the central truss cross bracing are one-inch rod. The bot­tom of the truss is four-inch flat steel. All of the metal bracing is doubled on each side. There were cast angles bolted under each beam that held up the stringers. The rest of the bridge was wood. Photos from the late 1930s show the tops of the main truss beams covered with tin to help preserve the wood. Also note that the spacer beams between the truss sections just below the deck were moved up when the concrete piers were added.

Unfortunately, the ICC photos revealed limited detail but were the best photos I had. So I completed my initial drawings based on these photos and my measurements of the piers. A week later Curt Bianchi / · received a letter from Al Rose in ·· response to my Pendola switch\ article. I subsequently pa,id Al a \ visit, and along with Rick Mugele and George Sapp we spent the entire day looking through Al's librazy of photos and railroadiana. During my visit I came across a wonderful photo of the bridge from the Tuolumne side looking up into the truss section. What detail! Back to the drawing board, liter­ally. Al was gracious enough to loan me the photo to study. It had all I needed to complete the bridge detail and revise the drawing.

A reproduction of my Stanislaus River bridge drawing is shown on page 1 7. Copies of the drawing in HO scale can be purchased from

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Above: This grocery list for February 1-24, 1926 was found at an antique shop in Drytown, Cal[fornia. It was among various Sierra Railway documents which the shop\owner s(!1id were purchased though estate sales. I bought the most interest­ing items for future Historical Society research. Note Chief Engineer Newell's sig­natur,e and okay at the bottom. John Scott collectie>n.

the (1Histori<;:,al Society for $5.00 Angels Branch? Check out Rick

postpaid. Sehd your request with a Mugele's track plan in Kalmbach chec~ to SRHS, P.O. Box 1001, Books' Handbook #29, Walkaround Jame~town, "CA 95327. Model Railroad Track Plans by Don

I Mitchell. If I eve{ finish the framing drawings of cab0ose No. 9, I'll make an HO scale model of the bridge for SRHS display until my future layout gets started. Interested in modeling the

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My thanks to Al Rose and his wife for their hospitality. Next time, more information on the switch­backs and the Melones area.

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A Stanislaus River Bridge Gallery

Top left: 1916 l.C.C. valuation survey photo. Note the wooden lower trestle bents to either side of the truss section. John Scott collection.

Top right: A Ralph Kerchum photo, summer, 1926. The lower trestle bents have been replaced with concrete piers, and the spacer beams in the truss section have been moved up. Guy Dunscomb collection.

Left: An early photo of the bridge, with Heisler No. 9 pulling the Angels train. Joe Azevedo collection.

Below: Another Ralph Kerchum photo taken in 1930. The large concrete cyl­inder in the foreground Is a standpipe for the Carson Hill Mine power house flume. The standpipe still exists. Guy Dunscomb collection.

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Railtown Calendar Historical Society meeting, 11:00 a.m.

Docent Association meeting~ 8:00 a.m .• breakfast, $2.50 donation.

Joe Bispo Photographers Special, "The Hetch Hetchy Junction Limited." Four~hour excursion to Hetch Hetchy Junction, recreating a classic 1930s passenger train. Seat­ing is limited, many photo run-bys. Price: $50 before June 1, $60 after. Joe Bispo, 4260 S. Fruit, Fresno, CA 93706.

Historical Society meeting, 11:00 a.m. Paul McClenehan's father's film of the Sierra and. West Side in the 1950s .

.Docent Association meeting, 8:00 a.m., breakfast, $2.50 donation.

Historical Society meeting, 11:00 a.m. Al Rose slide show.

Docent Association meeting, 8:00 a.m., breakfast, $2.50 donation.

Historical Society meeting, 11:00 a.m. Jamestown shops tour. Bring your camera!

Docent Association meeting, 8:00 a.m., breakfast, $2.50 donation.

Ttllrd Annual "Walking the Rails ofYesteryear" living history program, 5:00 p.m. Staged vignettes take the public back through the colorful history of the Sierra Railway. $20 per person, including dinner. Tickets and i:eservations: (209) 984-3953. For further information, contact the Railtown 1897 Docent Association, P.O. Box 1001, Jamestown, CA 95327; (209) 984-3248.

Historical Sodety meeting, 11 :00 a.m. Field trip to Cooperstown.

Saturday, .Octob~r 16 · Docent Association meeting, 8:00 a.m., breakfast, $2.50 donation.

Note: Docent Ass;tiatii:m meet.lngs tcike place ~t the east end of the park at the state's Tri-Dam restoration shop building. Please RSVP to Dottie Bolarid.er at (209) 586-4202. AU Sierra Rallway Historical Society meinhers .are welcome. Historical Society meetings also ·take place in the Tri-Dam building. RSVP John Scott at (209) 533~9522 .

. ·_ Jojn the ~ierra Railway Historical Society The Sierra Railway Historical Society was fo~med in 1992, under the auspic~s of the Railtown 1897 Docent Ass~~ ciation.The Docent Association is· a bon;P.tofit volunteer organization that has been active atRailtown 1897 State Historic Park since 198~. interpreting tp:e park for visitors, conducting tours .. and working in the restoration shop. The Docent Association.formed the.Historlcal SoCiety with three goals in mind: to provide a way,to support the preservation of the Jamestown rai!foad facilities Without performing regular volunteer work; to.help raise frmds for this preservation; and to provide a means of disseminating information at?out the Sierra Railway, Railtown, and associated railroads:, _ . \ . . . · . . - · · .. Historical Society member benefits ine}ude a subscription to the quarterly Sierra Railway Journal. as well as di;s­counts. on Railtown excursion trains, ahd,free admission tickets to the California State Railroad Museum.

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·. . · · · · · ·· .. · Member&hip Application . · Membership dues are for a one year membership Jnci are ~ deductible to the extent permitted by law. All memberships include a Sll!-bscription to the Sierra Railway Journal Additional contributions are welcome and will be used for preservation and intetpre7 tation projects at Railtown 1897 State Historic Pa1k. Contributions to the Depot Rebuilding Fund will be used to.help reconstruct the .Jamestown depot. Active Docents must be at leflSt 18 y~jal"s of age, attend State Park training programs, and average 100 hours of sei-vlce per year. Business memberships include. a frame& certificate and listing in the Sierra Railway Journal ·

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