Northwestern Pacific RR

[NWPRxR]

I am looking for anyone interested in talk about this fallen flag.
I have some information but noone to talk with.

[John Barnhill]

Welcome aboard Jon!! :D

Check out the Class III Shortline Forum. I try to keep everyone informed as to the goins on there. Feel free to jump in and post any info or ask any questions you wish. There should be several threads if you dig around. :D

[Shannon]

Jon,

I am always intersted in the NWP. I had a chance to ride the line from Willits to Eureka in 1985. for our honeymoon trip.. What a great time and I do have some shots from the trip if I can find them.

Shannon

[JDLX]

Jon-

Please talk here...there are a good number of NWP fans on this board.

My dad grew up on the south end of the NWP in the '50s...he remembers going on a field trip through the Tiburon shops as a small boy. His dad's second wife was the daughter of a telegraph operator at Tiburon. Up until the time I was 8 we lived in Bodega Bay...we got to see the Petaluma & Santa Rosa die...I can still remember those SP "cruds" crawling through Sebastapol with one or two refrigerator cars and a caboose. Trips to Santa Rosa or Petaluma would usually allow us to see more Cruds doing local work, and if we were lucky one of those mile long lumber drags with 4-6 SD-9s on the point. In 1984 we left all that for the pine forests of northeastern California, where I became hopelessly lost to the McCloud River. I went to college in Arcata (one cowboy hat in a sea of tie-die shirts), and once again saw another part of the old NWP die as the North Coast Railroad closed up the north end in the summer of 1998. The NWP has been in my blood for a long time...

Like Shannon, I also had the privilege to ride the North Coast Daylight between Eureka and Willits in 1985. The Eureka Southern was one fascinating little railroad- too bad it didn't last.

What stories do you have to share?

Jeff Moore
Elko, NV