https://youtube.com/shorts/GcDC0rfuTDc?feature=shared
Nice engine https://youtube.com/shorts/GcDC0rfuTDc?feature=shared
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Justin Rowe
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#776
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Oakland SP Subway
Good Friends,
Another find from Wikimedia was the attached 1909 shot of a Key System
train going through the "subway" under the Southern Pacific tracks in
Oakland. The structure is still
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Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
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#775
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Key Pier
Friends,
Yesterday I ran across this photo during a scour of Wikimedia. It shows the
interior of the Key System mole in 1908 and is from the ELECTRIC RAILWAY
JOURNAL.
This shows how the interior of
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Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
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#774
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Re: Wreck Photos
Friends,
In my description of the 100 photo, I moved some sentences around during
editing, and left the impression that 100 was wrecked on an excursion. What
I originally meant to say was the photo
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Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
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#773
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Wreck Photos
Friends,
Recently I bought two photos on eBay, which I am sharing with y'all today.
The first shows Niles motor 100 on the deadline at Chico. She was wrecked
at Harter in 1935 (details unknown), and
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Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
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#772
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Re: O&A Boxmotor
Hi Bill,
Thanks for sharing this beautiful photo of O&A 102 in its original configuration and paint. Best estimate of location based on shape of hills in background is just west of Saranap on the way
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James Dolan
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#771
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O&A Boxmotor
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Bill Shippen
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#770
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Updated Yuba City Map
Friends,
I have made a few adjustments to the Yuba City map.
Most importantly, I had mistakenly switched the position of the Shell and
General Petroleum yards. Oops. I had conflicting information on
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Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
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#769
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Re: Yuba City Map
Hi
I may be way off saying "Thomas " as I'm going by memory. Some big well to
do outfit published business directories that folks use to look up
locations going by what is seen in the pictures. Say
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Bill Shippen
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#768
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Re: Yuba City Map
Bill,
I'm not familiar with Thomas guides, though I know their modern map books
well. I was given a Thomas fold-out map of Sacramento updated in 1926. It
shows all the streetcar routes. The railroads
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Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
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#767
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Re: Yuba City Map
Yes, most handy map and list. I'd? love to see one for NE, etcetera from Chico then down south. One of the ways researchers used to discover location in street car pictures was to use business
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Bill Shippen
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#766
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Re: Yuba City Map
Hi Garth,
Many thanks for putting this excellent and highly informative map together. Now, if only we had a similar map for SN trackage and industries in Sacramento, and area I've always found
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James Dolan
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#765
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Yuba City Map
Friends,
Here is the final map of Yuba City. It has some problems due to gaps in my
sources, so don't take it as gospel. It is only an approximation, and there
is a mish-mash of eras regarding some
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Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
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#764
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Re: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gl_15eeCn28&feature=shared
Amazing video. Thank you for sharing. I have some of the DVDs but did not
know there was a YouTube channel. I subscribed
[email protected]> wrote:
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Daniel Levy
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#763
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Sterling Brands / Sterling Industries Mystery
Friends,
Attached is a photo I took in 2002 shortly after operations at Yuba City
ended. The building in question is on a spur identified on the mid-1970s WP
TIP Book as "Sterling Ind.". It appears
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Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
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#762
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Re: Combined Yuba City Map, Phase 1
I have the plans for the WP station
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Justin Rowe
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#761
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Re: Combined Yuba City Map, Phase 1
Wow that is great. I had thought about doing the Spanish style WP station but didn¡¯t know where to start being so far away now.?
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Justin Rowe
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#760
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Combined Yuba City Map, Phase 1
Friends,
Attached is the combined Yuba City Sanborn map, based on the scans George
provided. No SN track yet. That is going to be difficult to add, but not
impossible. Then I will key what industries
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Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
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#759
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gl_15eeCn28&feature=shared
Charles Smiley may be on this group possibly, but here is a new video on repowering SN?Suydam steeplecabs. He also added one on repowering the Baldwin steeplecab.?
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Justin Rowe
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#758
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Re: Yuba City Industries Circa 1957
George,
Thank you very much for the scans. This is going to be an interesting
project.
Yours Aye,
Garth Groff ?
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Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
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#757
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