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NCRY Passenger Train Crosses Pleasanton-Sunol Road THE CLUB CAR Bulletin 668 Pacific Locomotive Association, Inc. www.ncry.org April 2019 NCRY passenger train crosses Pleasanton-Sunol Road Photo by Dan Sarka First crossing activation by train. It has been approximately ten years Our five car train departed Sunol at IN THIS ISSUE: since the Signal Department picked 11:00AM and headed to Verona. This up a donated US&S signal house from was the first time a passenger train had 2 Activities Page the UP and plopped it down at Verona crossed the recently leveled Arroyo De crossing, hoping that someday we’d Laguna Bridge. No more dip in the mid- 4 Along the Right of Way put into service crossing signals and dle. Dexter Day gates at that location. Well, we did, and When we arrived at Verona our train on March 9th we celebrated this NCRy stopped short of the crossing and al- 6 President’s Report milestone by running the first “Verona lowed passengers to detrain before Henry Baum Extra” across the crossing and east- proceeding. Everyone got into position ward toward Pleasanton along some of then engineer Tim Flippo slowly crept 10 Wednesday MoW the newly laid track. the 5623 up to the roadway until the Joe Peterson It seemed only fitting to have an SP signals activated. The train rolled on 14 Training Classes locomotive do the honors of activating through with horn blaring then stopped Dexter Day the crossing by train for the first time, on the opposite side of the roadway. so SP 5623 was chosen for the event. Continued on Page 8 OUR MISSION: To be an operating railroad museum for standard gauge railroading, past, present and future, with emphasis on the Western United States and special emphasis on Northern California ACTIVITIES CALENDAR MEETINGS Most General Meetings take place at = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = April = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = April 4 1st Thursday Niles School Train, 10 a.m. Sunol Glen School in Sunol. April 6 1st Saturday East Track Building, 8 a.m. ( Brightside Yard) Meetings are held in January, April 6 1st Saturday Board of Directors Meeting, 3 p.m. (Whitehouse) March, May, June, July, and October, April 7 1st Sunday Regular Train Operations but can be subject to cancellation. April 14 2nd Sunday Regular Train Operations April 21 3rd Sunday Regular Train Operations BOD MEETING CHANGE April 25 4th Thursday Sunol School Train, 10 a.m. Beginning in April, 2019, the BOD April 27 4th Saturday Ride the Rails, Relay for Life (Sunol) meetings will be on the 1st instead April 27 4th Saturday Brush Cutting, 8 a.m. (Brightside Yard) of 2nd Saturday of the month at April 28 4th Sunday Regular Train Operations 3 PM at Brightside White House. This change is due to other events = = = = = = BOARD OF DIRECTORS = = = = = = scheduled on the 2nd Saturdays involving Board members. President Henry Baum (925) 447-7358 [email protected] Vice President Dennis Mann (650) 726-0167 [email protected] Recording Secretary Jim Evans (650) 697-9033 [email protected] Every Wednesday Membership Secretary Peter Midnight (510) 483-5395 [email protected] and Saturday are Treasurer Paul Veltman (510) 792-7394 [email protected] General Manager Dexter Day (408) 234-4956 [email protected] WORK DAYS Director-At-Large Jim Stewart (510) 796-2810 [email protected] at the Brightside Yard Director-At-Large Kent Hedberg (415) 608-3811 [email protected] Director-At-Large Gail Hedberg (510) 207-5524 [email protected] = = = = = = = = DEPARTMENTS = = = = = = = = CLUB CAR Brush Cutting Steve Jones (510) 289-3559 [email protected] Car Department Dennis Mann (650) 726-0167 [email protected] DEADLINE Charter Agent/Docents Jim Evans (650) 697-9033 [email protected] The deadline for submitting Chief Engineer Mike Strider (707) 318-2633 [email protected] articles and photos for next Club Car Editor Barry Lependorf (510) 431-3401 [email protected] month’s issue of The Club Car Commissary Bob Bradley (510) 910-7024 [email protected] is the 20th of this month. Crew Caller Jackie Vlasak (510) 582-2648 [email protected] Submitting articles is easy by Gift Shop Gail Hedberg (510) 207-5524 [email protected] e-mail in Word text format. Hazmat Manager Doug Debs (650) 704-1487 [email protected] Send e-mail to: Insurance Roger McCluney (510) 489-4114 [email protected] Legal Steve Wood, Esq. (925) 938-6100 [email protected] [email protected] Member Communications Linda Stanley (510) 579-6300 [email protected] Digital photos may also be sub- Museum Curator Dennis Mann (650) 726-0167 [email protected] mitted by e-mail. Electronic im- New Member Orientation Glenn Fountain (510) 673-1084 [email protected] ages should be saved as PC Public Relations Henry Baum (925) 447-7358 [email protected] format .jpg files with minimal Road Foreman of Engines Kent Hedberg (415) 608-3811 [email protected] compression (i.e., average to Security Department Jim Evans (650) 697-9033 [email protected] excellent quality). A text file with Signal Department Curt Hoppins (408) 723-1154 [email protected] the photo number, description of Station Agent - Niles John Fenstermacher (510) 522-7949 [email protected] photo and identifying the people Station Agent - Sunol Donna Alexander (510) 996-8420 [email protected] in them is required. Steam Department Alan Siegwarth (408) 515-4602 [email protected] Train master Mark Miller (510) 502-8521 [email protected] The editor reserves the right to Volunteer Coordinator Ed Best [email protected] hold or edit material as neces- Yardmaster Gerry Feeney (408) 739-9347 [email protected] sary. The Club Car is an official publication of the Pacific Locomotive Association, Inc., P.O. Box 515, Sunol, CA 94586-0515 . The Club Car is distributed monthly to members, sponsors and friends of the Pacific Locomotive Association. The Pacific Locomotive Association, Inc. is an IRS Code 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization. Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. The PLA’s Federal Tax ID is 94-6130878, the State of California Tax ID is 0501445. General Meetings are held on the 3rd Friday of January, March, May, June, July, and October, beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Sunol Glen School, two blocks east of the Depot on Main Street in Sunol, CA. Members, Sponsors & Guests are welcome. Items in this publication are Copyright © 2019, Pacific Locomotive Association, Inc. and may be reproduced only by permission with credit to the source. Views expressed herein are those of the author unless specifically noted by the editor as official policy. The Pacific Locomotive Association is a member of the Association of Tourist Railroads and Railway Museums. (ATRRM) Page 2 Pacific Locomotive Association April 2019 NILES CANYON RAILWAY - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - Membership Report - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nominations will soon be open for of Katie Katuzny and Ninette Tan, the of the people involved in making those several positions on our Board of Di- family of Gloria, Aaron, and Carmen decisions. There are official commit- rectors (including mine). The members Harris, and the family of Andrea and tees and department heads, just as of our board are not the masters of the Eric Hughs-Baird. there is a Board of Directors, but very organization nor entirely slaves to it, Certainly, the Board of Directors has often, the people actually making the but we are responsible for coordinating unique influence within PLA, but that is decisions that leave a lasting mark are the budget and other matters that affect not where the day to day decisions are those who will do the work that those the overall operation. Membership on made. Everyone of us actively involved decisions pertain to. When someone the board is just one more of the many in any part of the operation is respon- is willing to do the work, that weighs roles you might be inclined to play in the sible to the rest of us for what they are heavily toward approval of that per- operation of the PLA. Even so, there is doing and, to a great extent, for decid- son’s judgment regarding the details. a path to that role, and like most roles in ing how it gets done. Therefore, when No one gets to decide about every- PLA, that path begins with membership you are thinking about what else you thing that matters to them. None of us in PLA, itself. The 22 new members might like to be doing in PLA, it makes can be everywhere and do everything taking that first step this month, toward sense to consider what details of how that is really important to us personally. whatever their roles will be, are Wesley things are done feel the most important Just as in any other institution, we each Van Osdol, Nancy Hulme, Janet Crow- to you. If you particularly care about are likely to see some things being ly, Donald Nelson, the family of Joanna how much we charge for tickets, for done within PLA that we believe should Smiley and Justin and Parker Worth- example, or when we run steam, or be done differently. That is something ington, the family of Viriya Souvanna- what color something is painted, then we each just have to accept. The futil- sane and Vatsana, William, Wyatt, and you need to find out where in the orga- ity of trying to change how something Greyson Burns, the family of Edward, nization those particular decisions are will be done after a plan has already Nicole, and Eddie Jimenez, the family made and then consider becoming one been worked out and approved is a real fun suck that we all need to learn how to avoid.
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