Comments on: Museums in Sacramento http://www.ohiocountyinmuseum.org/museums-in-sacramento Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:45:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: WPMixer http://www.ohiocountyinmuseum.org/museums-in-sacramento/comment-page-1#comment-6 WPMixer Mon, 03 May 2010 11:21:14 +0000 http://ohiocountyinmuseum.org/museums-in-sacramento#comment-6 great work guys keep it up great work guys keep it up

]]> By: Boomer Wisdom http://www.ohiocountyinmuseum.org/museums-in-sacramento/comment-page-1#comment-7 Boomer Wisdom Mon, 03 May 2010 10:28:20 +0000 http://ohiocountyinmuseum.org/museums-in-sacramento#comment-7 The California State Railroad Museum is a fantastic museum. It gains even more significance when one considers it is right across the street from Charles Crocker's hardware store, he being one of the "Big Four" that implemented the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad. Many of the pieces on display are restored "operational". I hear, from time to time, people ask, "If you hit the big lottery, what would you do with the money?" Easy. I fund the rebuilding of the 4294 and be the first guy behind the throttle once it steams up. This is the last of the 4-8-8-2 cab forward behemoths that were unique to the Southern Pacific, out-shopped by Baldwin in 1942, the last of the breed. Little known is that this class of engine, AC-12, won an SAE engineering award for its design. They have a multitude of both indoor and out of doors displays, with the "radio wands" for walk around, self guided tours, with the "wands" telling of the history of each piece. If ever in Sacramento, go. It is well worth the time, and Old Sacramento has lots of four star restaurants, night clubs and entertainment of all sorts. When the museum had its grand opening, in 1981, I was fortunate enough to have been a fireman "pilot" on the UP 8444, a 4-8-4 Northern, and the 3985, a UP 4-6-6-4 Challenger class articulated, for that portion of their journey from Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Sacramento, on the leg from Sparks, Nevada, to Roseville, California. I have two pictures from this trip posted on my Yahoo 360. Check it out. The California State Railroad Museum is a fantastic museum. It gains even more significance when one considers it is right across the street from Charles Crocker's hardware store, he being one of the "Big Four" that implemented the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad.

Many of the pieces on display are restored "operational". I hear, from time to time, people ask, "If you hit the big lottery, what would you do with the money?" Easy. I fund the rebuilding of the 4294 and be the first guy behind the throttle once it steams up.

This is the last of the 4-8-8-2 cab forward behemoths that were unique to the Southern Pacific, out-shopped by Baldwin in 1942, the last of the breed. Little known is that this class of engine, AC-12, won an SAE engineering award for its design.

They have a multitude of both indoor and out of doors displays, with the "radio wands" for walk around, self guided tours, with the "wands" telling of the history of each piece.

If ever in Sacramento, go. It is well worth the time, and Old Sacramento has lots of four star restaurants, night clubs and entertainment of all sorts.

When the museum had its grand opening, in 1981, I was fortunate enough to have been a fireman "pilot" on the UP 8444, a 4-8-4 Northern, and the 3985, a UP 4-6-6-4 Challenger class articulated, for that portion of their journey from Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Sacramento, on the leg from Sparks, Nevada, to Roseville, California. I have two pictures from this trip posted on my Yahoo 360. Check it out.

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