Golden Gate Railroad Museum & Niles Canyon Railway

94586 Sunol, CA, United States of America (USA) (California)

To NILES CANYON RAILWAY

To NILES STATION

To SUNOL DEPOT

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Golden Gate Railroad Museum is a non-profit railroad museum in California that is dedicated to the preservation of steam and passenger railroad equipment, as well as the interpretation of local railroad history.

Established in 1975, the museum was previously located in San Francisco and until recently was situated at the Hunters Point Shipyard. In 2007 the museum moved its collection of 12 locomotives and over 25 pieces of rolling stock to home of the Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol, California. The museum performs restoration work on its collection, which it showcases for special events.

The Niles Canyon Railway (NCRy) is a heritage railway running through Niles Canyon, between Sunol and the Niles district of Fremont in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, USA. The railway is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Niles Canyon Transcontinental Railroad Historic District.
Trains are operated by the Pacific Locomotive Association which preserves, restores and operates historic railroad equipment. The NCRy features public excursions with both steam and diesel locomotives along a well-preserved portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

The Pacific Locomotive Association has 8 steam and 13 diesel locomotives, and over 40 pieces of rolling stock.
 

Notable steam locomotives

Quincy Railroad No.2, 2-6-2T, American Locomotive Company, 1924
Robert Dollar Co. No.3, 2-6-2T, American Locomotive Co., 1927
Clover Valley Lumber No.4, 2-6-6-2T, Baldwin Loco. Works, 1924
Pickering Lumber No.5, 3T Heisler, Heisler Loco. Works, 1913
Pickering Lumber No.12, 3T Shay, Lima Locomotive Works, 1903
Sierra Railway No.30, 2-6-2, Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1922
Southern Pacific 1269, 0-6-0, Southern Pacific Railroad, 1921
Southern Pacific 2467, 4-6-2, Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1921

 

Notable diesel locomotives

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 462, GE 44-ton switcher, 1943
Oakland Terminal Railway 101, Baldwin DS-4-4-1000, 1948
Southern Pacific 1218, ALCO S-6, 1955
Southern Pacific 1423, EMD NW2, 1949
Southern Pacific 5472, EMD SD9, 1956
Southern Pacific 5623, EMD GP9 "torpedo boat", 1955
Southern Pacific 9010, KM ML-4000, 1964
U.S. Army 1856, FM H-10-44, 1953
U.S. Army 7348, GE 65-ton switcher, 1942
Western Pacific 713, EMD GP7, 1953
Western Pacific 918D, EMD F7, 1950

 

Golden Gate Railroad Museum collection

Southern Pacific #2472 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1921
Southern Pacific # 141 was built by the Pullman Company in 1927
Southern Pacific club-lounge car #2979 was originally built in 1912
The Union Pacific 5901 was one of seven cars,
SP #1487 was formerly U.S. Army #1847
Southern Pacific #6378 and #6380 were called F's, or covered wagons
Southern Pacific #293, 1950, "Shasta Daylight"
Southern Pacific #5131,is just over 72' long and one of SP class 70-BP-30-1 cars
Southern Pacific #2097, 2143 & 2156, 72-foot suburban steel coach was first built in 1923

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