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Jamestown is a unincorporated community in Tuolumne County, California, United States. Formerly a California Gold Rush town, Jamestown was designated a California Historical Landmark on March 16, 1949. [3] It is the home of Railtown 1897 State Historic Park and the Sierra Railway, which operates steam passenger trains.
Railtown 1897 is located in Jamestown, California. The entire park preserves the historic core of the original Sierra Railway of California (later reincorporated as the Sierra Railroad). The railway's Jamestown locomotive and rolling stock maintenance facilities are remarkably intact and continue to function much as they have for over 100 years.
Main St with Emporium on the left side — Jamestown, CA. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America . Its reference number is 78000817 .
California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, California; Cole Palen's Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, Red Hook, New York; National Museum of Transportation, St Louis County, Missouri; New York Museum of Transportation, Rush, New York; Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, Jamestown, California; San Francisco Cable Car Museum, San Francisco, California
The former Overland Emigrant Trail, which was used by travelers from points east to the California gold fields, crosses the present day SR 49 near Wolf Creek. [46] Empire Mine was in constant operation from 1850 to the late 1950s. [47] Gold Hill in Grass Valley was the site of one of the first discoveries of quartz gold in California. [48]
2-8-0 Consolidation number 28 was built in January 1922 for the Sierra Railway Company of California by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] It was built in response to the increase of freight traffic on the Sierra with the construction of the Don Pedro and O'Shaughnessy Dams requiring carloads of rock and cement. [1]
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Sierra No. 3, often called the "Movie Star locomotive", is a 19th-century 4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler" type steam locomotive owned by the State of California and preserved and operated by the Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown, California.