I did not want to steal the previous thread but there is another gem in California, or maybe I should say in the state of Jefferson in the Eureka - Arcata area (they want to secede from california and who wouldn't?). This is a great group of people trying to maintain the heritage of the timber railroads. Please visit if you can. Here are some picture, they have a roundhouse and a number of locos and passenger trains - including a number of shays!
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Impressive little collection they have there.
What "museum" east/south of Yosemite had, l think a Heisler? Has that one?
Their Heisler had the boiler removed and it has a diesel engine in place of it. Wish I had a good picture of it, here is the description:
THA has an unusual Heisler locomotive that was turned into a diesel by a local lumberman. This type of innovation characterized the local lumber industry.
The picture and description is about half way down this page: http://timberheritage.org/our-collection/locamotives/
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