Golden Gate Railroad Museum is Closing

It is so sad.  A lot of great memories with the GGRM!  Thanks for letting me be your sound man, Don!

That is a shame. I can't believe they could not reach an agreement to run that beautiful engine. Hope they find a new home.

It's a shame but not like it's a sudden surprise to them. The decision to terminate the agreement happened early this year:  http://www.atrrm.org/blog/2015...eum-to-move-in-2016/

They have been working on a new location for a long time. If it works out it will be great. Don

best of luck to them. beautiful locomotive.

Love the pacific class engines. IMO one of the vest looking engines ever made. Don't really care for the looks of Vanderbuilt tenders though.

Their Pacific was built in 1921 and runs like a clock. Don

Uh-oh.  I hope the new location works out so that the engine can still be safely stored and maybe (oh, I hope) have access to the main track of the former SP.  If I remember correctly, this engine made a main line trip some years ago, and it was highly praised for its performance.  This engine deserves to be run faster than 20 MPH.

It'd be nice if it came to the Arizona Railway Museum, then I could finally be able to work on a living 1:1 steamer.  Closest I've come is a quarter scale Atlantic.

Mainline trip? I thought UP bought SP and UP's policy is no steam on their rails except their own. Maybe BNSF would entertain the idea, but if it's all older friction bearing stuff and open window coaches, good luck. You can't really mix old tourist trains on the same rails as stack trains anymore, unless you have approved equipment like NS, TVRM, etc.

The 2472 ran on the mainline many moons ago. This is their meet with 844 a few years ago. Don