Steam & Excursion > PLA Wins TRAINS Preservation Award for Clover Valley #4

More good news for the Pacific Locomotive Association came in the form of the 2009 TRAINS Magazine Preservation award for their current rebuild of Clover Valley Lumber #4. This Baldwin Tank Mallet served her entire logging career out of Loyalton, CA for the Clover Valley Lumber Co. The last year (1957) the operation was bought by the Feather River Lumber Co.

Here is the link to the article from Trains.

http://www.trains.com/trn/default.aspx?c=a&id=5821

Here is the link to the PLA web page describing the locomotive and the restoration project.

http://plasteam.ncry.org/CVL4/index4.htm

Congratulations to the PLA on securing this deserving award. This will be a shot in the arm for the re-build.

Martin



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I passed by there many years ago and they have a good collection going for their museum.

Congratulations guys, glad to see our friends get the award, especially for an engine as cool as the CV #4. Looking forward to seeing it in steam here soon.

Tom Carter
Director
Feather River Rail Society
www.wplives.org

BRAVO!

At least we can rest assured that the award went to a deserving preservation group that has the leadership and devotion of it's members to see this project to fruition. Sure beats a government beaucracy that more often than not bumbles a project into oblivion or sadly is unable to commit to what it takes to ensure a project like Clover Valley #4 gets completed. I have no doubts that the PLA's restoration of #4 will be nothing short of a first class act.


Congrats!
SV



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Todd Clark
Canyon Country, CA
Trainorders.com