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Re: Why no diesel or steam at Rio Vista JCT?
Author: Dr Zarkoff
Date: 10-24-2016 - 14:22
>The museum at Rio Vista Junction was always second rate compared with the state museum in Sacramento. The State museum had a mountain of money
Phooey. The state museum has always sucked hind tit in the Parks Department, and the Parks Department itself has always sucked hind tit in state appropriations.
>Eventually the BAERA Board of Directors decided to specialize in electric railways because the state museum does not include any electric railway vehicles or information about electric railways in its collection.
Misleading, to put it politely. It was about three egocentric individuals who deliberately drove off the steam and diesel departments.
>WP #94 is in a display building open to the public. The paint has been touched up to keep
and rather amateurishly at that.
>WP #334 suffers from the effects of being stored unprotected outdoors in the days before it came to Rio Vista Junction.
and after it came to Rio Vista Junction. It was either RVJ or the Purdy Company, by edict of the WP which wanted it OUT of its WO roundhouse.
>After it came to RVJ it was owned by people who did not have money needed to protect it from the weather.
It was owned by the SF Martime Association, which had no interest. Eventually title was transferred to BAERA.
Phooey. The state museum has always sucked hind tit in the Parks Department, and the Parks Department itself has always sucked hind tit in state appropriations.
>Eventually the BAERA Board of Directors decided to specialize in electric railways because the state museum does not include any electric railway vehicles or information about electric railways in its collection.
Misleading, to put it politely. It was about three egocentric individuals who deliberately drove off the steam and diesel departments.
>WP #94 is in a display building open to the public. The paint has been touched up to keep
and rather amateurishly at that.
>WP #334 suffers from the effects of being stored unprotected outdoors in the days before it came to Rio Vista Junction.
and after it came to Rio Vista Junction. It was either RVJ or the Purdy Company, by edict of the WP which wanted it OUT of its WO roundhouse.
>After it came to RVJ it was owned by people who did not have money needed to protect it from the weather.
It was owned by the SF Martime Association, which had no interest. Eventually title was transferred to BAERA.
