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Revisiting the California State Railroad Museum
Photo: George Gabritsch
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Winter on the Strasburg,
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WINTER 2012 MANIFEST - ISSUE #78
1. PULL HARD! STEAM WHISTLE FESTIVAL, YOUNGSTOWN
2. TOYS FOR TOTS AT CLEVELAND ROUNDHOUSE
Owned by the Pacific Locomotive Association, Southern Pacific 4-6-2 No. 2467 is featured in a roundhouse scene at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.
ONE OF MY FAVORITE ACTIVITIES is to visit railroad museums. When it’s sunny I prefer to be trackside, but when snow and rain set in, I head indoors. Last winter in Sacramento, Calif., after several days of beautiful weather, it turned cold and rainy — the perfect excuse to reacquaint myself with the California State Railroad Museum. The museum has a lot to offer, but I’ll focus on the History Building. The 23,000 square foot History Building anchors the north end of Old Sacramento State Historic Park, 28 acres that comprised 19th-century Sacramento’s business dis- trict, designated a National Historic Land- mark in 1965. The partially hidden modern structure blends in with the park’s historic buildings, some of which date back to the 1840s. The setting is appropriately historic; steamboats plying the Sacramento River called here, and it’s also where Pony Ex- press riders started their 1996-mile journey towards Missouri. And it was here, on Janu- ary 8, 1863, that ground was broken for the Central Pacific, which built the western por- tion of the Transcontinental Railroad. It had been a number of years since I’d vis- ited CSRM, and while most of the major ex- hibits have not changed, the museum has updated and refreshed many displays and added new ones. In 2005 most of the exhibit galleries were renovated and reinstalled, so the museum still seems “new” despite the fact that it opened over 30 years ago. Some of the interactive exhibits have been removed because they were outdated and likewise, the “People Gallery” of costumed railroad characters has been replaced with a terrific
tracklaying exhibit. Some items of interest only to railfans, like the switch stand dis- play, have been exchanged for exhibits geared more toward the museum’s goal of ed- ucating the public about railroading’s “big- ger picture,” including its social and econom- ic impact, rather than just hardware. One of the first artifacts you’ll encounter is a personal favorite in the foyer: Overfair Rail- way 4-6-2 No. 1915, one of four 19″ gauge, ¹/₃ scale Pacifics built by Louis MacDermot for the San Francisco 1915 Panama-Pacific In- ternational Exposition. The engines featured cabs that a grown man could sit in, and were operated over five miles of track. Only three were finished; a fourth was never completed. Its pieces were stored at MacDermot’s Oak- land estate for many years and were acquired by Billy Jones after MacDermot’s death in 1948. The parts were donated to the museum in 1989 by the late Al Smith, and the locomo- tive was finished by the Sacramento Valley Live Steamers as it would have looked if it had operated at the fair.
After purchasing a ticket you may pro- ceed directly into the museum, or better yet, ascend the walkway to the second floor and start your visit with the orientation film, with its heavy emphasis on California and its contributions to railroading. At the end of the movie the screen lingers on a scene of the Sierra Nevada mountains, then lifts to reveal Central Pacific’s first locomotive, the 4-4-0 Governor Stanford, which is depicted in the mountains about to enter a snowshed. It’s a dramatic way to introduce visitors to the museum, and a good example of the de- sire to portray railroading in context
3. AMTRAK FALL JOURNEY- CAPITOL LIMITED & CARDINAL DOME (Night cab ride on #51; Kanawah River Terminals veteran diesels)
4. RED CABOOSE MOTEL-STRASBURG 5. WINTER RECREATION OF THE "VIRGINIA CREEPER"- N&W 475
6. CP HOLIDAY TRAIN - COLORFUL WINTER CONSISTS ON D&H LINE
7. BOSTON & MAINE PLOW TRAINS AND WINTER ACTION
8. ROTARIES ON DONNER - WINTER 2011
9. "WESTBOUND LIMITED" - 1937 FILM EXCERPTS
10. LAST DAYS OF GREEN BAY & WESTERN ALCOS - 1993
11. N-S F-UNIT AND STEAM SPECIALS, #630
12. ODDS AND ENDS
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