Steam & Excursion > Hot Steam Weekend in Niles Canyon!!!

This weekend the Pacific Locomotive Association will fire up the only operating logging mallet on the West Coast! Clover Valley Lumber Company #4 (2-6-6-2T) and Robert Dollar Company #3 (2-6-2T) will be pulling passenger trains on the Niles Canyon Railway. Come on out, both locomotive will be operating Saturday July 6th & Sunday July 7th.

Departure times are on our website: www.ncry.org

Clover Valley #4 will be operating on the "steam train" schedule, Robert Dollar #3 will be operating on the "diesel train" schedule.

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Hope it's a good outing...and not TOO hot!

Steve Mitchell
http://www.yardgoatimages.com

I just checked the weather forecast. Niles will cool down considerably for Sat & Sun, predicted high is 84 degrees, cooling to 63 degrees just before dawn. Sunol will be peak at 100 degrees Sat, 93 degrees Sun, cooling to 61 degrees just before dawn. So mornings will be especially nice. The trains have openable windows, a nice self-generated breeze, and open-air cars with roofs as well as Harriman coaches. There is a cool shaded picnic area across Kilkare Rd from Sunol depot, complete with picnic tables, BBQs, heritage oak trees for shade, and a nice lawn for the kids to play on. Come on out and enjoy the steam weekend!

- Doug Debs