Steam & Excursion > Three Foot Thursday - Pacific Coast Round Up

Last weekend was the annual Pacific Coast Railroad Round-Up. Visiting engines this time were Deanna and the Anne Marie.

Deanna is an 0-4-2 Baldwin, one of three engines rescued by Gerald Best from Hawaii, the other two being Ward Kimball's Chloe (now at Orange Empire Railroad Museum) and Olomana (now at the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum in Strausburg)

Deanna passed into the hands of Francis Moseley, a well known live steam figure, and then into the hands of its current owner George who finally completed the restoration.

The Anne Marie, an 0-4-0 Porter catalog switcher I believe was re-gauged from 30", and recently restored by its current owner Tom.

The #3 at the Pacific Coast Railroad is a Porter that has been highly modified into a 2-6-2.

Rolling stock consists of the original RETLAW-1 Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad cars, as well as freight stock from Colorado and Guatemala (the red caboose)

An extensive gallery is here: http://www.mikemassee.com/gallery/v/trains/pacific_coast_railroad/pacific_coast_railroad_2011/ and here are some highlights, below.

First batch is Deanna.

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
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More Deanna.

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
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1: Deanna side profile

2: Deanna and Anne Marie

3: Another profile showing how similar Deanna is to Chloe.

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
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Crew shots from Deanna.

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
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Now for some Anne Marie. Here is how these little engines get moved around from home to track.

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
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Anne Marie in action. Her 100 year old T-boiler is de-rated to 80 PSI, but she can still pull a Disney coach up the steep grade to the station firing on coal or wood.

Unfortunately, only one of the Disney coaches is fully restored, and this is not that one. heh.

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
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1: A night photo

2: Big meets little: James Sabin's MEG Steam Wendy (7.5" gauge) is a very close match for the Anne Marie. A once in a lifetime photo.

3: Master Live Steam model builder Jack Bodenmann and young Live Steamer Jeff Tolan are firing and driving.

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
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Head-on and some maintenance.

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
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1: Serenity on the ranch, from the cab of #3

2: #3 puts on a show

3: #3 with two Disney Coaches, the "Painted Desert" fully restored, at rear.

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
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1: Harry Harlow oiling up

2: Jeff Badger's backhead cuisine, soon to become scarce in California as Jeff heads off to join Phil Reader at the Georgetown Loop.

3: Approaching the north yard with freight

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
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1: Some fantastic scenery and the Guatemala caboose...

2: Rare shot - all three working pieces of motive power on the railroad that day.

3: Don't see that in very many places anymore....

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
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We also have our resident speeder for fire protection...

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
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Now here's something you've never seen before. This is a 5/8 scale Disney coach next to a full size narrow gauge business car. The Disney coaches look full size (and indeed still fit full sized people) until you look at them next to real narrow gauge rolling stock.

Disneyland Railroad is all 5/8 scale, that is to say standard gauge scaled down to 3ft gauge, so they keep the proportions of standard gauge cars relative to the size of the track. It's not really obvious until you look at it this way.

It's the largest 'scale' model train in the world!

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
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To round it out, here are some miscellaneous scenes captured around the ranch while foaming trains.

The ranch is currently 24,000 acres and is descended from an old Spanish land grant ranch. Real estate developer Rob Rossi owns part of the ranch and the railroad.

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
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Hello

Nice stuff as always mike

what is the history on the narrow gauge business car

Chris

I believe it is from Guatemala. Unsure on the manufacturer. I can ask Karl the GM about it unless someone else here pops up with info...

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
Photography, Railroading and more..

Thank you for the quick ansewer & My wife loves the horse photo,

Every time I scroll past the photo of the backhead cheeseburger sliders I get more hungry...

Mike Massee
Tehachapi, CA
Photography, Railroading and more..

Terrific work, Mike. I remember seeing the two cars from Guatamala (the caboose and business car Cuscatlan) on the Sundown & Southern many years ago. Nice to see them at their new home.

Jeff Terry

Thanks Mike for the great photo series and background information. Really interesting!

Steve Mitchell
http://www.yardgoatimages.com