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Here I will collect items that just don't fit anywhere else...yet.
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1. Wooden replica steam engine on display in Jackson,CA.
2. Loomis station in Loomis,CA.
3. Towle Bros caboose on display in Dutch Flat,CA.
4. Caboose ex CCT #21 just outside Diamond Springs,CA on Pleasant Valley Rd.
(note: This caboose has been moved to Virginia City,NV and restored as DRGW #20041 by owner.)

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5. Between Clipper Gap,CA and Applegate,CA lies Tunnel #0.
Bypassed in 1909/1910 realignment of Donner line.
6.& 7. A shopping center in Cameron Park,CA features this small tourist ride.
8. Ex bulkhead flat SP #508093 has become a bridge
over Canyon Creek near Dutch Flat,CA.

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9. DRGW #01442 is privately owned and located at the corner of
King Rd. and Brennans Rd. in Loomis.
10. Shingle Springs,CA depot.
11.& 12. UPFE reefers #452115 and 452145 privately owned at a fruit
ranch along Hwy 193 between Lincoln,CA and Newcastle,CA.

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13. Western Pacific caboose #456 on display in Cherokee,CA.
14. Penryn,CA fire insurance map showing depot site. Section house still
stands as a private residence. As a side note, my great great grandfather Azor Page owned the depot and
surrounding property at some point.
15. Privately owned ex SP caboose in Rescue,CA.

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16. Valley Spring,CA depot is now an ice cream shop. (repainted yellow 2008)
17. Plaque near Valley Spring depot about the San Joaquin & Sierra Nevada RR.
18. & 19. Ex Sierra RR Angels Camp,CA freight house. Now an art gallery.

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20.-22. ex Sierra RR Angels Camp,CA depot. Currently a private residence.
23. View down Sierra r-o-w towards Jamestown. Taken from Angels Camp freight house.

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24. & 25. Standard,CA freighthouse. Now a business.
26. Ex SP caboose #1086 in Coulterville,CA.
27. Ex Cotton Belt boxcar #56822 in Coulterville,CA.

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28.-30. Merced Gold Co's 1896 blt. Porter 0-4-0ST #1 Whistling Billy on display in Coulterville,CA.
31. South of San Andreas,CA, travelers on Hwy 49 pass under what appears to
be a railroad bridge built by the Calaveras Cement Co. Though built to railroad specifications as a proposed
extension of the SP Kentucky House Branch to a small quarry, this bridge never saw a train cross it, only trucks.

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32.-34. Red Point Mine 0-4-0CA loco and mine cars at Foresthill,CA.
35. Just for fun, I also found this wooden caboose along the main drag
in Foresthill. Even the trucks, wheels and rail are wood.

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36. The Southern Pacific section house still stands at Penryn,CA
as a private residence. (see map of Penryn above, photo #14)
37. Privately owned ex SP #119663 on Gold Hill Rd near Newcastle,CA.
38.-39. Privately owned boxcars at intersection of Mt Vernon & Baxter Grade
near Auburn,CA. #39 is ex Southern Pacific.

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40. Plaque at site of Virginiatown near Newcastle,CA mentions California's first railroad.
41. This cut down boxcar turned bridge provides a private driveway
along Gold Hill Rd near Newcastle,CA.
42. Half of Triple 53' Long Runner TTEX #354069 has been turned into
a bridge along Latrobe Rd south of Latrobe,CA.
43. Mountain Ranch,CA is home to this reefer.

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44. Ex CB&Q caboose, possibly #13765, at Brownsville,CA. (Ken Martin image)
45. WP grain boxcar #18226 along Lumpkin Rd near Feather Falls,CA.
46. Ex ATSF caboose on display next to Paradise,CA depot. Lettered for Butte Co RR.
47. Paradise,CA depot. Only a small portion of structure is original.

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48.& 49. Plaques about the depot and railroad in Paradise.
50.& 51. South and north views along row/bike path in Paradise.

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52.-55. These four views were taken at Ralphs on the Sierra RR.
Shown are the Sierra and Pickering right of ways along with a nice plaque about Ralphs Station.

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56.-59. Near the West Side mill site along Tuolumne Rd are a plaque about
the West Side Lumber Co, some railcars and the West Side's crossing of Tuolumne Rd.

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60. Ex Sierra water tankcar #607 provides a positive stop on a spur at Chinese,CA.
Tank is ex Sierra #106, nee Gulf Refining Co #168. Scrapped May 2008.
61.-63. Here's a couple views of the two story depot at Magalia,CA near Paradise.

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64.-66. A religious retreat at Leoni Meadows,CA operates a live steamer.
Part of the Glover-Roderick RR operates on the original Diamond & Caldor right of way.
67. ATSF #999280 serves as a video arcade at Midpines,CA KOA.

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68. ATSF #999625 sits next to a restaraunt in downtown Oakhurst,CA.
69. This live steamer is on display along Missouri Flat Rd, Diamond Springs,CA. (Olin Anderson image)

    
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