once a project is announced it sometimes takes a back burner to other "headline" projects.

For the last many years the Nevada State Railroad Museum has been working on restoring to operation the last remaining McKeen motor car Virginia & Truckee #22.

The museums web site has announced that they have had a modern Diesel donated to power the car and there are a couple of nice interior photos posted there.

Has anyone heard anything about the Flying Yankee or the ?Santa Fe? gas car that was being restored at Travel Town Park in Los Angeles?

Ted Miles

With the Yankee, someone just posted photos on NERail Photo Archive, showing that they just recieved back the trucks. The repairs and upgrades done to them now make them compliant with Amtrak specs.
http://photos.nerail.org/show/?order=byrail&page=1&key=Hobo%20Railroad

Rich C.

In 1985 I started working on a passenger car at Spencer Shops by removing the seats and starting to prepare the interior for refinishing. I very quickly got pulled off that project to work on "revenue" cars for the on site demonstration train ride. Next week I will board up the windows on that same first car I started on there, still pretty much as I left it in 1985, for its trip to another location for restoration.

dave