Here at Hicks Car Works, we're always interested in news about preserved cars from the original Hicks Locomotive and Car Works, in addition to our flagship, of course, the 309. And today's news involves one of the best of the preserved cars, Virginia and Truckee #20. For the past 60 years or so, it had been stored at the Orange Empire Museum in Perris, after its star-studded career in the movies. But now it has been transferred back to its home in Nevada at the modern incarnation of the V&T, the Nevada State Railroad Museum at Carson City.
To see the news, for the immediate future follow this link to the Facebook post. You don't need a Facebook login, just exit out of the pop-up. But we've copied some of the better pictures, hoping they won't object. Next time we're passing through Nevada, I'll be sure to stop in!
3 comments:
I am glad to see this car return to Nevada, but just to make things confusing, there is a second modern incarnation of the V&T which rebuilt most of the track from the east side of Carson City to Virginia City for passenger trains.
https://www.virginiatruckee.com/
As far as I am aware of, there is no connection between that line and the Nevada State Railroad Museum, other than a shared love of the V&T.
Years ago, I saw the car down there at the then orange Empire Railway Museum. The museum got the combine from a studio auction and later in a different auction they got the fancy oil lamps. Interestingly, they had to pay more for the lamps, than the car they came from. It was kind of an orphan being the only V&T Railroad car in the collection. I have long thought it would be better off in Carson City. Thank you Randall for alerting us to the change in its location!
Yes, I realize that's true. The current Virginia and Truckee is a tourist railroad. NSRM is a state railroad museum, as the name implies. I last visited it in 2017 and they have a very interesting collection. Now that our old friend Larry lives near there, I gotta get him to update the trip report!
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