Western Pacific Railroad Museum

WPRM, Preserving the history of the Western Pacific railroad and its subsidiaries.

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Have you ever dreamed of getting to run a locomotive?

Have we got the deal for you! Come experience first hand operating one of our historic locomotives with a private instructor! https://t.co/3rnZD6w3Na

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Haven't gotten your pumpkins yet for Halloween? The Pumpkin Patch Express leaves the station for the next two weekends at the WPRM!
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We have the opportunity to preserve an extremely unique heavyweight passenger car from the early history of the Western Pacific, and we need your help! RTs appreciated.
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#WPLives ⁦@FRRSWPRM⁩ bringing the steam today.

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35mm slide from the Jack Palmer collection. Posted without comment.

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We drove a Diesel engine (!) at @FRRSWPRM Rail Museum- our boys’ dreams came true!! Great time had by all and special thanks to Engineer Bill for being such a great guide!!

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@BORRM That looks like a big one that goes whooo whooo!

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So while the track is turning to the left (east bound), the "straight line track chart" is always drawn straight from the perspective of the main line to keep that easy to read and draw.

The 1 inch of superelevation is in reference to how banked the curve is, just like freeways!

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Deep drive in the archives! This is a track profile which was donated to us as part of a collection of WP signal department manuals. Thanks Glen! 🧵

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So for example, we can see that the Oakland depot is officially at mile post 6.57, and that's specifically the eastern face of the depot (EFD).

It's in a 1.02mi straight section of track, which is followed by a 1379 ft long turn to the left at 1 degree 30 seconds w/ 1" superelev

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Have you ever wondered why batteries are still so adamant about not disposing of them in fire?

Well, historically, the disposal procedures for these sorts of things were literally to bury or burn them...

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The Southwest Chief derailment will add to existing equipment issues for Amtrak, passenger writer Bob Johnston reports.
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In case riding in one of our cabooses isn't close enough to the action for you, we also offer cab rides where you get to ride our passenger train with the engineer and fireman.

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Show me a single piece of modern paperwork that has the elegant simplicity of the early 20th century railroad documents in our archives.

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@ChuckMcManis For a few reasons. Even for diesels, they're not push start, but once you start making up a train, you need to let them sit there for an hour to charge the brakes in the cars regardless of what you're doing.

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After three hours of running the fire box atomizer on compressed air, we've finally got 25lb in the boiler, so we can cut over to using steam for the atomizer and really boil some water! 🔥🚂🔥

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A solid group of volunteers.

If you missed the WP 165 this weekend, you'll have another chance on Labor Day Weekend. Subscribe to our mailing list for more information. https://t.co/CJhOxRpYEu

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End of a good two days of running the WP 165.

Thanks to all our hard working volunteers that made this possible and all of the great visitors we had this weekend which made this worthwhile.