[sup][/sup]NWPExpertRick Wrote:
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> Remember well the 1006. Of course it handled all
> freight on the NWP south of the San Rafael Tunnel
> through the 1960s starting that tunnel was
> destroyed by saboteurs in 1959 and not reopened
> for nearly 20 years, finally opening to rail and
> bike traffic in 1974 when the abandonment of the
> Sausalito Branch occured.
>
> It was a deal with the Feds: shut down Sausalito
> in exchange for opening the San Rafael Tunnel.
>
> You could find 1006 sitting on the rails and old
> sleepers in San Rafael in the Lost Decade known as
> the 1960s.
>
> Later it brought 2472 to Larkspur where that now
> restored engine sat oxidating on the sleepers as
> lorries trundled by on 101 high above it where I
> saw it--eyewitness account--highly often, sitting
> amid the flowers that Larkspur is named for.
>
> I was the first railfan I believe to advocate for
> and envision the rehabbing of 2472, visiting early
> SMART board meetings in 1969-72 to speak out for
> fixing it for commute service. So I take a great
> deal of pride in what we have accomplished in
> rebuilding that engine--first in Concord, later in
> Martinez where it sat on a spur across from the
> station, then moving to other places and now at
> the NWP where it sits on the sleepers in sleepy
> Schellville soon to be in work on daily Beer Train
> service from Larkspur to Cloverdale nightly.
>
> Of course I am speaking about the SP, formerly NWP
> line (NWP became SP in 1946, after NWP sold itself
> to SP in exchange for a share in the ATSF
> subsidiary Richmond Pacific Railroad--merger
> between the Northwester Pacific and Richmond Bay
> Railroad which is why the railroad today is called
> "Richmond Pacific".


Off you meds again, My Friend? My guess a lot of you trolls will off to the Napa State Hospital once the Red Flag laws go into effect