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Western Pacific - Feather River Route

Crossings

Union Pacific Crossing Hotline: 1-800-848-8715

  • SR447 = 833-409F
  • dunes = 833-410A (rumored to have been closed)
  • Frog = 833-411A
  • Trego = 833-412N

Links

WP & US Gypsum at Gerlach, Nevada, Spring 1974


Western Pacific divisions




... The locomotive was placed in storage and retired in 1918 because of declining business on the V&T. It was sold in 1924 to the Pacific Portland Cement Company of Gerlach, Nevada where it saw service as PPC Co. switcher No. 501 until 1931. In 1938 the Empire was donated to the Pacific Coast Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. There it remained until 1966 when it underwent a cosmetic restoration at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's San Francisco shipbuilding yards. ...


5 2-6-0 18x24 48" 124000 Baldwin 1908 Purchased new. Sold to Pacific Portland Cement Company as No. 2 in 1920; Operated at Pacific Portland Cement (PPC) plant, San Juan Bautista, 1927-1929, as No. 5; Operated at PPC plant Gerlach, Nevada as No. 5.


Sidings

listed West to East

  1. Calneva, California
  2. Flanigan
  3. Sand Pass
  4. Bryant
  5. Sano
  6. Reynard
  7. Bronte
  8. Phil
  9. Gerlach
 10. Ascalon
 11. Trego
 12. Cholona
 13. Ronda
 14. Sulphur
 15. Floka
 16. Antelope
 17. Jungo
 18. Gaskell
 19. Pronto
 20. Raglan
 21. Krum
 22. Marcus
 23. Winnemucca

Hazards