Audio Transcript:
Maintenance is an important and ongoing task for any railroad. The WPRM carries out various maintenance tasks around the museum using many pieces of our vintage collection, some built specifically for the purpose of maintaining the right-of-way.
A lot of the equipment at the museum was available for preservation because the railroads repurposed older equipment making them available for preservation later on.
The Western Pacific Railroad Museum features maintenance equipment of various sizes and vintages, from small speeder cars to a 250-ton capacity wrecking crane that we use from time to time.
We even have the working rotary snowplow used to rescue the stranded "City of San Francisco" in 1952!
