SIERRA RAILROAD COMPANY
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Color Photo, Sierra RR 4-6-0 #3/train Order No. SRR03BCP Photographer: Rick Hamman Although this view of the Sierra #3 with eastbound train crossing Dry Creek Trestle was taken just a few years ago, the line remains timeless. Perhaps one of the most famous of all short line railroads, its most modern motive power is still a 45 year old GP9. The #3, seen here between Warnerville and Cooperstown, dates back to the line's Motherlode beginning. -------------------- SRR 4-6-0 #3, 1940
Image, Sierra RR 4-6-0 #3 at Jamestown, 1940 Order No. SRR03AI Fred C.Stoes Collection The famous Rogers engine, seen in so many movies, is seen here sitting in disrepair. Around 1932, it was taken out of service and "stored" until being restored for movie work in the late 1940's. -------------------- SRR - Combine Caboose #9
Image, Sierra RR Combine/Caboose #9, 1940 Order No. SRRC09I Fred C.Stoes Collection Sierra Railroad combination passenger car and caboose #9 is seen at Jamestown, cira 1940. -------------------- SRR 2-8-0 #18
Image, Sierra RR 2-8-0 #18, Jamestown, 1940 Order No. SRR18I Fred C.Stoes Collection It is early evening as the sun casts alternate patterns of bright light and dense shadows over the little Sierra Railroad 2-8-0 #18, parked in front of the Jamestown enginehouse. -------------------- SRR 2-8-0 #18 "View A"Image, Sierra RR 2-8-0 #18, Jamestown, Order No. SRR18AI Fred C.Stoes Collection Sierra Railroad 2-8-0 #18 is viewed sitting in front of the Jamestown enginehouse. Circa - 1940 as it was gone off the property shortly after that. -------------------- SRR 2-8-0 #20
Image, Sierra RR 2-8-0 #20 going away 1940 Order No. SRR20I Fred C.Stoes Collection Sierra Railroad 2-8-0, No. 20, is seen going away from the camera. -------------------- SRR 2-8-0 #20 "View A"
Photo, Sierra RR 2-8-0 #20, Jamestown, 1940 Order No. SRR20AP Sierra Railroad 2-8-0, No. 20, is seen at the ready outside the Jamestown roundhouse. Although now long gone, here is another classic memory of the Sierra. -------------------- SRR 2-8-0 #22
Image, Sierra RR 2-8-0 #22, Jamestown, 1940 Order No. SRR22I Photographer: Fred C.Stoes Second Sierra Railroad #22, this smaller 2-8-0 would shortly be going to the California Western to become their #41. -------------------- SRR 2-8-0 #24
Image, Sierra Railroad heavy 2-8-0 Loco #24 Order No. SRR24I/font> Image, Sierra Railroad heavy 2-8-0 Loco #24 11" X 17" Order No. SRR24NI Sierra Railroad heavy 2-8-0 locomotive #24 poses at sunset at Jamestown, California. This 163,000 pound locomotive, with it's 50" drivers, was the largest of all the Sierra's many Baldwin Consolidated's. It was over 20-tons heavier than the next largest 2-8-0. Built originally for the Nevada Copper Belt in 1912 as their #3, it was acquired in 1921. -------------------- SRR 2-8-0 #34
Image, Sierra 2-8-0 #34, Jamestown, 1936 Order No. SRR34I Fred C.Stoes Collection It is a very hot day in Jamestown, California, in the summer of 1936, down at the Sierra Railroad Yard. 2-8-0 #34 sits all buttoned up destined to see service beyond the end of the century. -------------------- SRR - Jamestown Depot
Photo, Sierra RR Jamestown Depot & Offices Order No. SRRDEPOTP Photographer: Rick Hamman Monday, September 5, 1977 (Labor Day), 6:45am. The Sun is coming up on the old Sierra Railroad headquarters and depot building at Jamestown, California where a busy day will soon follow. It was not long after this that the building burned and the Sierra Railroad lost much of its early documentary history.
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