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The Western Pacific Railroad Museum (WPRM) holds in its collection a total of twenty-nine diesel locomotives, one electric locomotive, one steam locomotive, fifteen passenger cars, numerous freight and maintenance cars and eighteen cabooses. They offer excursions and a "Run A Locomotive" program during the summer.
Built as Union Pacific Railroad 1000, obtained by Western Pacific Railroad in 1968, transferred to Sacramento Northern Railroad in 1973, re-acquired by Union Pacific in 1982; donated to Deer Creek Scenic Railway, later sold to Nevada Southern Railroad. [6] 608 Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California: 705: October 1952
Western Pacific (WP) operated the California Zephyr passenger train with the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The WP handled the "Silver Lady" from Oakland, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah from 1949 to 1970. The Western Pacific owned several connecting short-line railroads.
The museum's mission is to preserve the history of the Western Pacific Railroad and is operated by the Feather River Rail Society (reporting mark FRRX), [1] founded in 1983. [2] It is located at a former Western Pacific locomotive facility, adjacent to the Union Pacific's former Western Pacific mainline through the Feather River Canyon. [3]
The Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California features a very complete roster of 20th century cars, including wood bodied ice cars, steel bodied ice cars, one of the earliest mechanical refrigerator cars, later mechanical refrigerator cars and a cryogenic reefer, as well as several "insulated" boxcars also used for food transport.
Operational, Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association, Campo, California: 5208: Baldwin DRS-6-6-1500: Stored, California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, California 5253: Baldwin AS-616: Static display, Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Portola, California 5274: Baldwin AS-616 Static display, Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Portola ...
On static display at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California [47] 24567 November 1967 CA-13-2 On static display at the RailGiants Train Museum, in Pomona, California. [48] 25049 June 1942 CA-3 On static display at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California [49] 25256 June 1959 CA-5
Two distinct and separate railroad refrigerator car companies have operated under the name Western Refrigerator Line. The first, the Western Refrigerator Line ( WRL ) was a refrigerator car leasing company founded by the Western Pacific Railroad on January 1, 1923 specifically to service the fruit and green vegetable farmers in California 's ...