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It was named for the town and mountain range of Calico and the nearby Odessa Canyon. [ 2 ] It is a remake of the 3 ft ( 914 mm ) narrow gauge Waterloo Mining Railroad , the original narrow gauge railroad line that hauled silver ore (and later borax) from Calico to the mills of Daggett in the 1880s, although the present-day tracks do not follow ...
This photo of a Rio Grande Southern business-car train in the 1800s shows what the Ghost Town & Calico engines looked like in the 1800s (e.g., diamond stack, wooden pilot, box headlight, and trim on the sand dome and steam dome). The business car next to the engine is the "Rico," which is now at the Colorado Railroad Museum. The other business ...
Big South Fork Scenic Railway; Bluegrass Railroad and Museum; Kentucky Railway Museum; Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation (For C&O 2716 excursion trips) My Old Kentucky Dinner Train (Between Bardstown station and Limestone Springs)
Amherstburg Freedom Museum – Amherstburg. [2] The museum uses historical artifacts, Black heritage exhibits, and video presentations to share the story of how Africans were forced into slavery and the made their way to Canada. [3] Fort Malden – Amherstburg [4] One of the routes to Ontario was to cross Lake Erie from Sandusky, Ohio to Fort ...
Southern Pacific Railroad: Randsburg Railway: ATSF: 1897 1911 California, Arizona and Santa Fe Railway: Redondo Beach Railway: ATSF: 1888 1889 Southern California Railway: Richmond Belt Railway: ATSF / SP: 1902 1932 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Southern Pacific Company: Riverside, Rialto and Pacific Railroad: UP: 1915 1917 Los Angeles ...
Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: Donated to the museum in 2018. CO-19 West Side Lumber Company #12 (Shay locomotive) Shay Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: CO-20 West Side Lumber Company #14 (Shay locomotive) Shay Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: CO-21 Royal Gorge 40 2-8-0 1921 built Photographed at Colorado Railroad Museum in ...
In 1908, current on the third rail system was raised from 550 volts to 1,200 volts. [7] The extension to Sacramento began service on September 1, 1910. [1] In 1928, the railroad was sold by the original owners and was then jointly purchased by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Western Pacific ...
The Modesto Interurban Railway was incorporated on March 23, 1909, with plans to build 9.5 miles (15.3 km) of track from Modesto along McHenry Avenue and then directly to Riverbank. The railway was envisioned because only the Southern Pacific served Modesto; the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway bypassed Modesto by 5 miles (8 km) to the ...