BOULDER CREEK & PESCADERO
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Image, Boulder Creek & Pescadero 0-6-0 "Dinky" Order No. BCPDINKYI Photo, Boulder Creek & Pescadero 0-6-0 "Dinky" Order No. BCPDINKYP Note: Made from a 1920's 5" X 7" copy neg of original glass plate print. From 1875 until 1917 there was a little 0-6-0 locomotive wandering the woods of the San Lorenzo Valley in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. It started out as the "Felton" on the Santa Cruz & Felton in 1875. For a time, after 1880, it found itself the ward of the South Pacific Coast. Then, in 1887, it became the property of the Santa Clara Valley Mill & Lumber Company. For the next 25 years the "Dinky", as the Boulder Creek locals used to call it, saw service on two pieces of track. The seven mile "Boulder Creek & Pescadero RR (wishful thinking) and the four mile California Timber Company Mill railroad up Newell Creek. A little homespun charmer, the Dinky with its 36-inch drivers did its job well, and for a long time. Shown here somewhere along its short line it poses with engineer Alex Skelton and his son in the cab, and other company workers on the ground.
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