Browse Items (7 total)

• Excursion Car 318

  A renovated passenger car

• Excursion Car 5

  A renovated excursion car

• Oakland Railroad 2

  A horse-drawn trolley car- more details to be added.

• Arcata and Mad River Smoker 1

  Caboose/Coach - more details to be added.

• Southern Pacific 1010

  A narrow gauge combine car - more details to be added.
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  North Western Pacific 6101

  This caboose started out as NS 2002 and was subsequently numbered NWP 6101 and NWP 5591.
  
  It was restored by the Bethlehem ship-yard in SF in 1969 for display in Samuel Taylor State Park as NWP 5591. It was subsequently acquired by the CSRM, who in turn transferred it to us.
  
  The NWP/ICC records say this car was built by North Shore in 1904, but a NS "Requisition for Construction and Repair" show the car as having been repaired and repainted in May 1906 for $115.00. Additionally the ledger for the requisitions show no other work on this caboose, proving the car was on hand when the railroad was formed. (Text paraphrased from Northwestern Pacific Narrow Gauge Cabooses, an article by Randy Hees). Recently located photographs currently dated as from 1901-1902 appear to show this car in front of the Sausalito Shops -- research continues...
  
  The cupola on this car was damaged when being transported to Ardenwood by a lower-than-alleged overpass. During the initial repairs it was determined that additional restoration was needed if the car was to be made operable. This Caboose is currently under restoration and is being restored as NWP 6101. It is operable and is used as a passenger and crew car on our operating trains.
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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.