Re: Yolo Shortline Passenger Car Heritage Question
Author: Stephen Hjellum
Date: 12-23-2013 - 12:07
If I recall, YSLR owned two coaches - YSLR 701 (Woodland), YSLR 702 (Haviland? <-Confirmation needed), two rebuilt ex-gondolas-turned-observation-cars - YSLR 501 and 502, one ex-SP Economy Baggage Car-turned-Concession Car, and one ex-UP CA-10 caboose - YSLR 601. Anything else is either leased or privately owned and stored on site in three locations, the site where Michael Greenspun shot those cars, an inaccessible spur past Hebron Spur, and the YSLR/SERA offices. I too have wanted information on the YSLR's rolling stock, as they are the least photographed pieces of rolling stock in the vast majority of sites on the web. I had worked on the YSLR (not recorded as such) in a brief summer job with my mom and younger brothers circa 2003 before the Hart Brothers sucked up the Yolo Shortline. I truly miss the YSLR as they were a neat operation before the merger. Now it's turning into the same blah, boring mess that other shortlines have succumbed to.