Rail Photography Day – Portola, CA

We have reached a place in the restoration of WP668, our backyard caboose,
where more detailed historic information would help us make decisions. Also,
we need patterns for the Western Pacific logo and other body markings.
Fortunately, we live a mere 262 miles from the

Western Pacific Railroad Museum in

Portola, California on the Feather River. Portola
is north and slightly west of Lake Tahoe. Now would be a good time for
a weekend trip: it is almost my birthday, too early for much snow on
Donner Pass, and even better, a
Rail Photography Day is scheduled at the museum on 29 September, 2007.

The museum will operate prototypical freight and passenger trains on our track for the benefit of photographers. This is a great opportunity to view and photograph many of the new items which the museum has acquired over the last few years. The museum roster currently includes over 40 locomotives and over 100 cabooses, freight and passenger cars.

John and I are trying to sort out our schedule to see if we can go!