Additional terms and conditions proposed by the City of Santa Rosa for our use permit in Youth Community Park prevent us from operating our train rides. We are working with the city to reach a mutually acceptable set of terms but until that is successfully concluded our public run days must be suspended. We are very sorry
for any disappointment this causes our riders and supporters and hope to resume service as soon as possible.
Hello All.
I took some photos of the Chavez Locomotive with the idea that the museum could make a poster with a photo and information about the engine and the donors. Attached are some of the photos. Note that the locomotive look so much better with the brass polished up.
There are also photos of the work Jim and I did today. We stripped down the engine in Jim garage by removing the cab, running boards, plumbing, turret, domes, stack, jackets, bands and bell. We then move the engine to Jims shop to use the overhead hoist to remove the boiler.
We spent the rest of the day going over many issues in the chassis including valve gear, spring rigging, front pilot truck. The machine work so far looks very good.
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Expect to see more live steam at Youth Community Park this summer. Dave has completed his locomotive and it will most likely be polishing the rails at the park this summer.
More progress is being made on the redwood empire live steamers track at Youth Community Park. Dave resisted the siren song of the train show in Santa Rosa and instead, spent the day out at youth Community Park adding a switch to our track. Theis is all part of the “Y” project that will allow us to turn trains around on the main line and make operations much easier to perform.
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Don Bruner-Welch has been hard at work on re-ballasting portions of the main line at Youth Community Park. The photo above shows newly laid ballast that will ensure smooth running this coming spring. If you are interested in helping out, give Don a call, Work parties generally occur on Sundays around 10:00 at the park.
2013 Club memberships are now available
Now is the time to consider joining the club. Your $35 Dollar membership supports our public run days at the park. You can also operate club locomotives and cars. Help run a railroad! Bigger trains mean bigger fun!
The November 10 th. work party installed a new switch and two sections of track near the skate park to start off the eastern loop.
Dave has reached a tentative agreement with the owners to donate the locomotive outright to RELS. Their desire is to have this completed by 12-31-2012. We have offered to procure and install a plaque on the locomotive acknowledging the construction by Mr. Chavez and the donation by his heirs.
Kaiser Permanente Community Giving Campaign has donated another $600 courtesy of Annʼs contributions at work. Thank you Ann. . They will also provide a matching grant of up to $200 in 2013