
Subject:
Photos etc
From:
Edward Merrin <edmerrin@comcast.net>
Date:
12/6/2014 12:45 PM
To:
Seth Neumann <sneumann@pacbell.net>

Hi Seth,

Here are captions in the order the pictures were embedded in the message. The operater orientation is too big for comcast so I send it separately through mail drop (unless you have another preference).

Ed

1. Local freight crosses over Redwood Highway near its intersection with Eastside Road outside of Healdsburg.
2. Boxcar spotted by the NWP freight station in Santa Rosa.
3. Daily Petaluma & Santa Rosa freight arrives in Santa Rosa yard after passing under US Highway 12.
4. Engine yard in Willits, a major division point on the NWP.
5. Yard crew begins to break down newly arrived Train #75, just arrived from Eureka.
6. Eastward Extra snakes its way through the Eel River Canyon on its way to Eureka.
7. Extra 5309 uses dynamic braking to descend down from Ridge Summit to Willits.
8. Drop this picture - too much like #4.(3082)
9. Empty flat car waiting in Willits to be picked up by California Western for delivery to Union Lumber in Fort Bragg.
10. In the 1990s two California Northern GP-15s depart Willits with a train of new lumber.
11. Contrary to actual history, these Eureka Southern GR-38s emerge from the Cloverdale tunnel, which was built under a cemetery.
12. Extra 5324 crosses Outet Creek just north (Railroad East!) of Willits.

13. A glimpse of the staging yard lurking under the lower level of the layout. Tracks A and B represent Schellville, C and D Eureka. Additional tracks are to the right and further back.
14. Members of the Hi Ballers, our regular operating group, toil away to keep the railroad running. On the right, Charlie Siebenthal is Willits yardmaster assisting Ron Buckwalter, who has just arrived with an eastward Extra. Below them and to the left Peter Barnes is coordinating the movements of his P&SR train in Santa Rosa with Hart Corbett, who has arrived with a 2nd class freight for a scheduled meet with an eastward freight.



