| Around the Balloon Track | |
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| Before billionaires and boutiques, Tiburon was a railroad town. |
NWP bridge & wood trestle crossing Swauger Creek
Early railfans were notorious for their poor safety. | Early railfans were notorious for their poor safety. |
My grandpa William King, standing next to his locomotive 1906, in Pt Reyes. He was the engineer |
The NWP local out of Eureka is seen below circling Arcata Bay enroute to serve the mills at Arcata |
A Northwestern Pacific freight rumbles past the depot at Ukiah, California and then hits the vineyards. From the Pentrex show “Today’s Northwestern Pacific” |
| Happy anniversary of the start of Interurban service! |
The California Western Railroad & Navigation Co. in 1908 was still an isolated common carrier and it’s easternmost railhead was “North Fork” |
North Pacific Coast Railroad’s single-end ferry steamer ‘Tamalpais’ (the first vessel to carry the name) heading out from San Francisco for Sausalito. |
The Northwestern Pacific’s far-flung branch lines often saw a myriad of older, secondhand equipment. Of the more unique cars to grace them |
A bit faded but still a cool color transparency shot of Cal Western Baldwin DS4-4-750 No. 52 switching at Fort Bragg, probably around 1965-68. |
Northwestern Pacific Railroad Depot, Glen Ellen, California. Image taken 1911-1912 |
Wreck at East switch Redwood Valley 1959 Mendocino Co.
| In 1980, California Western acquired three AlcoRS11s via Kyle Railways which purchased them in Jan. 1980 | Amazingly, SP had two big GEs, U30C 7913 and U33C 8713 there at Willits
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| More coming soon! | More coming soon! | More coming soon! |
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