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If you make it out to California I highly recommend a visit to the town of Laws (5 mi. east of Bishop, 250 miles north of LA). There is a 4 or five car narrow guage train with steam locomotive (no 18 I belive) & caboose virtualy abandoned in place. Laws is basically a museum town. The station, train,and several buildings like the blacksmith shop, barber shop (/dentist),schoolhouse, livery stable, general store, jailhouse and several others have ben preserved to look like the did in the old days. They also have an excellent bookstore. <br /> For those that don't know this was a major station on the Carson & Colorado (also known as the Slim Princess). The C & C went from Keeler,Ca. to Mound House,Nv. and was a subsidiary of Southern Pacific. It connected with the Vergina And Truckee at Mound House and the SP Jawbone line in the Owens Valley (Lone Pine I belive). This was the last place SP ran steam in regular service. And I belive the last narrow guage on the west coast. I also think this was the last place SP ran mixed trains. <br />The C&C had a very colorfull history and was a real freak of the SP empire. <br />There is another C & C narrow guage steam loco in a park in Independance,Ca.(#9 I think) that the last time I heard was undergoing cosmetic restoration. <br />
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