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Hi Derek! Great article!The last Southern Pacif...

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Hi Derek! Great article!

The last Southern Pacific Big Trees Picnic Train ran to
Felton on August 1, 1965. You ran a photo of this train at the
Boardwalk in one of your regular Facebook columns many months
ago. I rode this train in 1963 and photographed it in 1964
but was unable to see it in 1965 due to my father's birthday.
See my article on these trains in one of your quarterly bulletins.

The 1937 Employees Timetable shows two sidings here, one
with a siding capacity of 9 cars and another for 34 cars.

I spent time at Mt. Hermon in the summer of 1961 and often
went down to Felton station to watch the switching of hopper
cars. I met Norman Clark there one day who was VERY nice and
he told me of his plans to build the Roaring Camp & Big Trees
Railroad. I was thrilled when he said it would be steam powered!

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