UPDATE:

I have just finished finalizing details with a trucker who runs a rig big enough to haul the Tidewater Southern Railway bunk car recently donated to the Portola Railroad Museum.

The cost will be lower than anticipated, looking right now to be about $2500 maximum.

So far, we have confirmed donations of $300.

The deadline to move the car remains, however. By early-mid August it must move or it will be demolished.

We need donations to cover the cost of moving this car. The plan is to restore the car as a companion to our collection of WP maintenance of way equipment, including WP crane 37.

If you want to help save the last known piece of Tidewater Southern MOW equipment, please send your donation to the FRRS – TS Bunk Car, P O Box 608, Portola, CA, 96122. Make checks payable to FRRS and mark TS Bunk Car in the memo line.

If you have any questions, please contact me off-list at evicknair@studiored.com.

Information on the history of the 0565-H and the Escalon Fire which resulted in the car's use as the depot in Escalon for several years can be found at www.TidewaterSouthern.com.

Eugene Vicknair
Feather River Rail Society


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