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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, a preservation society founded in 1984, is located next to the Union Pacific rail yard in Portola, California. The remaining portion of the Feather River Route follows a corridor similar to that of State Route 70 in California and former State Route 49 in Nevada.
purchased new, operational as Cass Scenic Railroad #11, Cass, West Virginia 4 H.K. Porter, Inc. 0-6-0 Tank locomotive: 1907 3951 built as Mammoth Copper Mining Company #4; scrapped in 1957 5 Willamette Iron and Steel Works: 3-truck Willamette locomotive: 1923 9 purchased new; scrapped in 1957 8 GE Transportation: GE 44-ton switcher: 1951 30791 [3]
Feather River and Western 1857: FM H-12-44: January 1953 Fairbanks-Morse: Out of service [7] Southern Pacific 2873: EMD GP9: December 1956 Electro-Motive Division Out of service, Oil system repairs complete, water pump removed for rebuild. [8] Union Pacific 6946: EMD DDA40X: September 1971 Electro-Motive Division On static display [9]
Portola is a crew change site on the Western Pacific Railroad (now Union Pacific Railroad) Feather River Route over the Sierra Nevada. The city is also home to the Western Pacific Railroad Museum (formerly Portola Railroad Museum), one of the largest railroad museums in the Western United States. The museum is famous for its Run A Locomotive ...
A Union Pacific train carrying 118 tons of coal derailed Sunday due to a track defect and dumped its contents into and around Plumas County’s Feather River, according to railroad officials and ...
Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California: August 20, 2013 [42] 22808 Royal Gorge 5305 July 1957 SD9 Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&GRW)
The Western Pacific Railroad operated a railroad through the Feather River canyon. This route was selected because it leads to a low pass over the Sierra Nevada mountains. The Western Pacific California Zephyr trains used this route and had a feather in their logo to represent the river. Today, there is no scheduled passenger service along the ...