Friday, January 04, 2013

"Railroad Museum to Commemorate Historic Date in Railroad History"

"Railroad Museum to Commemorate Historic Date in Railroad History" by Traci Rockefeller Cusack, © Sacramento Press, January 4, 2013. (News Article)

"One hundred and fifty years ago – on January 8, 1863 – California Governor Leland Stanford turned a ceremonial shovelful of earth near the intersection of Front and K Streets in what we today know as Old Sacramento. ... the California State Railroad Museum will debut a new sign ... " [More]

[Courtesy Google Alerts.]

Train Robbers - Sierra Grade

From: Stagecoachbooks@aol.com

Can you direct me to a site where I can locate archived photos of train robbers?

Can someone tell me the locomotive on the train robbed at Verdi, and are there photos from about that time? ...

—R. Michael Wilson