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  Diamond and Caldor 64

  This 15-ton 24' flat car was found near Placerville, California, where it had been abandoned by the Diamond and Caldor Railway. On the D&C it was numbered 64. This car was built by the Holman Car Works in 1907. This car was restored in 1983 and was the first car used for passenger service on our railroad. For many years the car was incorrectly numbered as shown below as South Pacific Coast 439.
  
  The car was redecked and repainted to D & C 64 in 2001.
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  South Pacific Coast 47

  This is the car that started it all. 47 was built by Carter Brothers in their Newark shop in 1881. While 47 looks like a passenger car, it was considered to be a caboose and was used as such. As a caboose, the car was equipped with link and pin couplers instead of Miller Couplers like the passenger cars. Like many other SPC cars, 47 was sent to the N&C in 1907 after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and the subsequent standard gauging of the SPC. On the N&C the car was renumbered 455. The car was set aside in 1915 in Keeler, California. The body of the car was brought back to Newark in 1975. The car is currently stored in the carbarn. It is being surveyed and cleaned to determine what the next steps are with this car.
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  ASARCO 2

  12 ton converted to 14 ton diesel-mechanical locomotive - more details to be added.
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  SPCRR No. 581

  A 5 ton Plymouth gasoline powered locomotive with a hydraulic transmission. It is a modern industrial locomotive used for operations, switching, and maintenance of way. This engine was purchased by the SPCRR in August 2004 after leasing it for several years from a member.
  
  It is nicknamed 'Katie'.
  
  After a few years of service, the yellow paint was starting to show it's age and a 'guerrilla' spray paint job of rust red primer was applied and the engine was renumbered SPCRR 1.
  
  By 2016, the 'guerrilla' paint job had deteriorated badly and in the winter of 2016 this engine was refurbished, stripped to bare metal, painted, and lettered as SPCRR 1.
  
  During the winter of 2018 The gasoline engine was replaced with a diesel and air brake controls and pump were added to allow State air braking requirements for the passenger train. In 2020 then engine was renumbered #581.
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  Kiso Forest Railway No. 9

  The Kiso Forest Railway No. 9 is a Baldwin 0-4-2RT 6-10 1/3 C91 steam locomotive built in June 1929 in Pennsylvania. It is one of ten locomotives in the last of three total orders built for the Imperial Forestry Bureau of Japan, for use on the Kiso Forest Railway, a 30-inch gauge logging railroad in the Nagano Prefecture in the center of Japan- west of Tokyo and north of Nagoya.