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Dispatcher's Sheet - May2008 5/3/2008
SP 2472 Steam in Niles Canyon, SP 2472 excursion, SP 2797 lounge car progress....   read more

SP Pacific Class Passenger Steam Returns to Niles Canyon 4/27/2008
In 1958, Southern Pacific #2475 (P-8) powered a passenger excursion train through Niles Canyon. This excursion from San Jose to Tracy, CA marked the last passenger excursion train pulled by a Pacific class locomotive through Niles Canyon. Interestingly enough, some members of GGRM and PLA were on that very train...   read more

Dispatcher's Sheet - April 2008 4/15/2008
Focus on members and projects, SP 2797 lounge car progress, GGRM collection news....   read more

Dispatcher's Sheet - March 2008 Part 2 3/15/2008
More news and pictures from the President's Day test runs, 2979 Lounge Car Progress, SP 141 “Oakland” Brings Up the Rear....   read more

Dispatcher's Sheet - March 2008 Part 1 3/15/2008
SP 2472 steaming again. News and pictures from the President's Day test runs....   read more

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Last SP RPO Run 2/10/2008
Over 250 people toured our Railway Post Office car (UP 5901) at the Sunol Depot on Saturday, October 13th.  The car was spotted in Sunol to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the final run of an RPO on the Southern Pacific. UP 5901 was an official USPS postal station...   read more

Dispatcher's Sheet - December 2007 12/5/2007
Project News! Volunteer crews are working on these major projects, and would be glad to have your help on any of the following projects - join us! 2472 OVERHAUL is COMPLETE! We’re very pleased to announce that we’ve completed the overhaul of SP 2472. November 30 and December 1 saw...   read more

Dispatcher's Sheet - October 2007 10/1/2007
Project News! Volunteer crews are working on these major projects, and would be glad to have your help on any of the following projects - join us! S.P. 2472: Work is progressing well on SP 2472: Doug Debs is leading a special push to scrub the tender water tank interior...   read more

Dispatcher's Sheet - September 2007 9/12/2007
Project News! Volunteer crews are working on these major projects, and would be glad to have your help on any of the following projects - join us! S.P. 2472:The locomotive is essentially complete now. We’ve made great progress on the 2472 in the last few weeks; it’s jacketed, the cab...   read more

Dispatcher's Sheet - August 2007 8/1/2007
Railway Mail Clerks A Big Hit in the RPO! GGRM members attending the July meeting shared a rare treat as we were joined by six retired members of the Railway Mail Clerks. Bill Jackson, Phil Chan, Bill Sullivan, Bernard Schallhorne, Howard White and Jim Briggs shared their stories of working...   read more

Dispatcher's Sheet - July 2007 7/1/2007
Railway Mail Clerks in the RPO! Our U.P. 5901 "City of San Francisco" Railway Post Office car has been brought out of mothballs and is being set up for display. As part of the July general meeting, we will have as our special guests retired Railway Post Office clerks. They...   read more

Dispatcher's Sheet - June 2007 6/4/2007
We made good progress the last 2 weeks.  A quick update: SP 2472 Dave Hensarling, Dave Roth, John Teshara, Marshall Goodloe, Steve Smith, Bob Bradley, Mark Gleason, Shelley Gleason, Eddie Chase, & Doug Debs worked on insulation installation.  It would be relatively simple on cylindrical surfaces with no protrusions; it...   read more

Southern Pacific #2472 Returns to Steam! 4/12/2007
The Golden Gate Railroad Museum (GGRM) is pleased to announce that Southern Pacific 2472 (4-6-2) has been successfully steam tested as required by 49 CFR 230 1472 day inspection regimen. Locomotive reassembly is continuing and we expect the locomotive to be complete in the near future. Over the past two...   read more

49 CFR 230 Overhaul of SP2472 12/15/2006
A great deal of the Golden Gate Railroad Museum’s time and resources are devoted to the upkeep and operation of the centerpiece of its collection, the SP2472. We are nearing completion of a major survey and overhaul of the locomotive mandated by a change in federal regulations governing steam locomotives....   read more

SP2472 Progresses 4/1/2006
Firebox repairs were completed on February 9. We identified 65 flexible stay-bolts in the combustion chamber that needed replacing due to clogged telltales. Defective bolt removal and replacement has been completed. During the course of the firebox repairs, we identified some additional defects that needed repair. A small crack close...   read more

Report From the VP, Operations 4/1/2006
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” Our dedicated group of volunteers has answered the call to this huge task that has been put upon us. Even in the cold and rain of December and January, and flurry of activities in February, people pulled together and worked in...   read more

Moving News 4/1/2006
Work Continues at Hunters Point Even though the area around building 809 is beginning to look like a ghost town, don’t be fooled as there is still a lot going on. GARRET BRISBEE continues to patch the roof of the Harriman RPO. DOUG PETERSON re-plumbed the shower and installed a...   read more

So, where is it all going? 4/1/2006
Disposition of Equipment – Process and Outcomes DEFINING A SCOPE OF COLLECTIONS: The first step taken (actually before The Letter From the Navy), was to figure out our “story” – what should the museum be about, and what was the equipment needed to tell it? The board began active conversations...   read more

Ario (aka Bill, “Red”) Bartoli Pulls the Pin 4/1/2006
We learned with sadness that member Bill Bartoli passed away on February 24.  "Red" (for his red hair) joined GGRM around about 1990, when his wife, Rose, slipped her usually firm grasp and he escaped out of the house with his son-in-law, Tom. A master steam fitter, he had worked...   read more

Extraordinary Efforts Get Results! 4/1/2006
On January 11, Jim Bunger, Dave Roth and I met with three members of the USN Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC). They were very impressed with our plans we sent in October, and wanted to meet with us (and other tenants at the base) to see how we were...   read more

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