"Not bad, for an old lady: Fifty tons of historical locomotion"

"Not bad, for an old lady: Fifty tons of historical locomotion" by David E. Cook, © Sacramento News and Review, January 17, 2008. (News Article)

" ... Granite Rock No. 10 is just waking up. She’s 65 years old ... the working steam-powered locomotive that is a prominent part of Sacramento’s world-renowned California State Railroad Museum collection—one of fewer than 100 steam locomotives still operating in the United States. ... Most of the volunteers at the railroad museum are not former train people. ... Most people on the train crews start at the museum as docents. ... There is a pattern to the whistle blowing ... 'Any time you cross another right-of-way, you have to blow two long, one short and a long, and you have to blow it so that the last long sounds as you pass [the right-of-way].' ... " [More]

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