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Around the Museum 2022
Kirk Baer, Jeff Biggs, Kerry Cochran, Greg Elems, Matt Elems, Kenneth Finnegan, Paul Finnegan, Steve Habeck Phil Schmierer, Roger Stabler, Erin Swain


Please note, there are five galleries and a video of all the special events that took place with the 2022 Western Pacific Railroad Historical Convention on the WPRM Photo & Video web page.

Page last updated:  Sat Oct 3 05:49:59 AM PDT 2026

Slide 1 Santa and his helpers on the last night of Santa Trains 2022

Slide 2 Santa train has officially started! - 12/3/22 Greg Elems

Slide 3 Santa Trains - 12/3/22 Greg Elems

Slide 4 Finishing the shutdown for the night with the gate lights on.- 12/3/22 Greg Elems

Slide 5 Silver Plate after thorough cleaning - 11/30/22 Steve Habeck

Slide 6 Silver Plate after thorough cleaning - 11/30/22 Steve Habeck

Slide 7 Silver Plate after thorough cleaning - 11/30/22 Steve Habeck

Slide 8 Greg Elems prepared to restore the car number on WP 302. - 11/20/22 Greg Elems

Slide 9 WP 302 now has the number it wore on its arrival to the WP in 1910. - 11/20/22 Greg Elems

Slide 10 WP First 302 Arrives Portola on Hwy 70 - 10/22/22 Eugene Vicknair

Slide 11 Coming Down WPRM Access Road - 10/23/22 Eugene Vicknair

Slide 12 Cranes Ready to Go - 10/23/22 Eugene Vicknair

Slide 13 Checking And Positioning East Truck - 10/23/22 Eugene Vicknair

Slide 14 Lifting Off Trailer - 10/23/22 Eugene Vicknair

Slide 15 Steve Lee And Roger Stabler Observe the Lift - 10/23/22 Eugene Vicknair

Slide 16 Truck And Trailer Clear Lift Area - 10/23/22 Eugene Vicknair

Slide 17 West Truck In Position - 10/23/22 Eugene Vicknair

Slide 18 Moving the East Truck - 10/23/22 Eugene Vicknair

Slide 19 Rolling Truck Into Place - 10/23/22 Eugene Vicknair

Slide 20 WP 302 on Trucks on Original Home Rails 1st Time In 100 Years - 10/23/22 Eugene Vicknair

Slide 21 WP SW1500 1503 Couples Up to WP First 302 - 10/23/22 Eugene Vicknair

Slide 22 Greg Elems painting the SN 1642 - 10/8/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 23 Mike Waters Finishing Adding Water to WP165 - 9/4/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 24 Fireman Don Nelson Getting Ready for a Run - 9/4/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 25 Bil Jackson and Lew Barnard in the Shop - 9/4/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 26 David and Conductor Matt Elems on Caboose Train - 9/4/22 Kerry Cochran

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Slide 28 WP 165 Pulling the Caboose Train - 9/4/22 Kerry Cochran

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Slide 30 Ethan Doty Taking Photos - 9/4/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 31 WP 1503 and WP 165 - 9/4/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 32 Conductor Matt Elems Switching at the End Of the Day - 9/4/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 33 Greg Elems Switching - 9/4/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 34 WP 165 Back in the House - 9/4/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 35 Mike Waters-Don Nelson-Fred Elenbaas - 9/3/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 36 Mike Clawson Taking Photos - 9/3/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 37 Ed Powell Taking a Break - 9/3/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 38 Logan Beers Loading the Caboose Train - 9/3/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 39 Visitors Watching From Engine Platforms - 9/3/22 Kerry Cochran

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Slide 41 Charlie Spikes Getting Ready to Run - 9/3/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 42 Charlie Spikes Giving Signals - 9/3/22 Kerry Cochran

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Slide 46 Student Brakeman Logan Beers Brings WP 165 to a Stop - 9/3/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 47 WP 165 Backing into the Platform - 9/3/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 48 Museum Visitors-01 - 9/3/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 49 Museum Visitors-02 - 9/3/22 Kerry Cochran

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Slide 53 Ann and Breckyn in the Museum Store - 9/3/22 Kerry Cochran

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Slide 59 Channing Walker and Mike Waters finishing up for the day. The WP 165 was used for Caboose Train Operations. - 9/3/22 Greg Elems

Slide 60 Channing has a stack cap for the stack. That way the draft will not cool off the engine, it will be warm for the next day. - 9/3/22 Greg Elems

Slide 61 After the new doors were installed, the east-end of the shop has been spruced up and several displays have new homes. - 9/2/22 Kerry Cochran

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Slide 65 New bucket for the LOED. First job will be loading ballast into the SPMW ballast car to build up the shoulders on the balloon track. - 8/28/22 Greg Elems

Slide 66 David working on the SP 2873 cooling system Sunday August 21, 2022. - Greg Elems

Slide 67 90 Yards of Rock for Work on the Balloon Track - 8/18/22 Roger Stabler

Slide 68 Signal Maintainer Kenneth Finnegan rewired the Wig-Wag using the terminal block rather than wire nuts. - 8/15/22 Kenneth Finnegan

Slide 69 Roger Stabler and David Elems are working on the museum tamper. - 8/15/22 Kerry Cochran

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Slide 73 PST is now providing internet service for the museum. - 8/15/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 74 Two Plumas-Sierra Telecommunications technicians arrived early on Monday August 15, 2022, to install new microwave link for improved internet service to the museum. - 8/15/22 Paul Finnegan

Slide 75 PST getting ready to install radio and antenna. - 8/15/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 76 PST boom truck moving into position to install radio and antenna near our webcams. - 8/15/22 Paul Finnegan

Slide 77 PST technician installing new equipment for our microwave internet service. - 8/15/22 Paul Finnegan

Slide 78 Power injector for the new internet radio in the Signal Department cabinet. - 8/15/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 79 New microwave internet antenna in place and in service. - 8/15/22 Paul Finnegan

Slide 80 Our new internet service antenna. - 8/15/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 81 Paul Finnegan is assembling a new roll file unit for the Historical/Archive Department. - 8/15/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 82 Roll file unit in place in archive car. - 8/15/22 Paul Finnegan

Slide 83 Roger Stabler and David Elems are discussion possible enhancements to our backhoe. - 8/15/22 Paul Finnegan

Slide 84 Signal Department Maintainer, Kenneth Finnegan, is resolving the printing problem on the Operations Office computer. To print, the user must choose COLOR regardless of whether the document is in color or not! - 8/14/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 85 Signal Department Maintainer, Paul Finnegan, is helping pull new internet cable to hardwire the entrance Screenly system. The wifi connection has proven not to be reliable. - 8/14/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 86 Signal Maintainer Kenneth Finnegan testing on the Operations Office computer. - 8/14/22 Kerry Cochran

Slide 87 New East Shop Doors from outside. - 8/15/22 Paul Finnegan

Slide 88 New doors for east-end of shop. August 1-4, 2022. - Roger Stabler

Slide 89 New doors for east-end of shop. August 1-4, 2022. - Roger Stabler

Slide 90 New doors for east-end of shop. August 1-4, 2022. - Roger Stabler

Slide 91 New doors for east-end of shop. August 1-4, 2022. - Roger Stabler

Slide 92 New doors for east-end of shop. August 1-4, 2022. - Roger Stabler

Slide 93 New doors for east-end of shop. August 1-4, 2022. - Roger Stabler

Slide 94 New doors for east-end of shop. August 1-4, 2022. - Roger Stabler

Slide 95 New doors for east-end of shop. August 1-4, 2022. - Roger Stabler

Slide 96 New doors for east-end of shop. August 1-4, 2022. - Roger Stabler

Slide 97 New doors for east-end of shop. August 1-4, 2022. - Roger Stabler

Slide 98 New doors for east-end of shop. August 1-4, 2022. - Roger Stabler

Slide 99 Track Work at East Lead. Work done by Phil Schmierer, David Elems and Roger Stabler - 7/27/22 Roger Stabler

Slide 100 Track Work at East Lead. Work done by Phil Schmierer, David Elems and Roger Stabler - 7/27/22 Roger Stabler

Slide 101 David Fritz Elems shows off a newly improved weatherproof power receptacle on the south side of the diesel shop. This new style will allow use even in actively raining conditions. - 7/17/22 Matt Elems

Slide 102 Crew for Live Steam Operations 7/3/22

Slide 103 Live Steam July 3, 2022 - Kenneth Finnegan

Slide 104 Live Steam July 3, 2022 - Kenneth Finnegan

Slide 105 Live Steam July 3, 2022 - Kenneth Finnegan

Slide 106 Live Steam July 2, 2022! - Kenneth Finnegan

Slide 107 Live Steam July 2, 2022! - Kenneth Finnegan

Slide 108 Live Steam July 2, 2022! - Kenneth Finnegan

Slide 109 Live Steam July 2, 2022! - Kenneth Finnegan

Slide 110 Live Steam July 2, 2022! - Kenneth Finnegan

Slide 111 Roger Stabler monitors the rising steam pressure on WP 165 - 7/1/22 Kenneth Finnegan

Slide 112 WP 165 on 3 rail Friday, July 1, 2022 - Jeff Biggs

Slide 113 Channing Walker and Mike Waters replaced the wooden walkway on our fuel oil car WPMW 1132 - 7/1/22 Greg Elems

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Slide 116 Channing Walker and Mike Waters putting the running boards on the Steam Dept. fuel tank car - 6/30/22 Roger Stabler

Slide 117 The East Bay Explorers Guild made a visit to the museum on June 25-26, 2023, and did a multi-hour RAL. All the explorers are now FRRS members too! - 6/25/22 Kenneth Finnegan

Slide 118 The East Bay Explorers Guild brought some friends along. They are now FRRS members too! - 6/26/22 Kenneth Finnegan

Slide 119 The 2022 Membership Dinner was cancelled and hopefully will return in 2023. Photo is from our 2019 dinner. - Paul Finnegan

Slide 120 WP 165 on 3 rail getting ready for first public of the the restored 0-6-0 on Sunday. 5/14/22 - Matt Elems

Slide 121 5/14/22 - Matt Elems

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Slide 123 Fresh Black Paint 5/13/22 - Roger Stabler

Slide 124 Low Pressure Piston from the WP 165 - Roger Stabler

Slide 125 New Cab Windows Installed in WP 165 5/10/22 - Roger Stabler

Slide 126 Welded Pump Shaft for the WP 165 - May 2022 Roger Stabler

Slide 127 Repaired Pump Shaft ready to reinstall - May 2022 Roger Stabler

Slide 128 Charlie Spikes After 1st run of 165 - Steam Dept. Work Session April 2022 - Kirk Baer

Slide 129 Erin Swain on 1st Run Around Balloon - Steam Dept. Work Session April 2022 - Erin Swain

Slide 130 Firing up for test - Steam Dept. Work Session April 2022 - Erin Swain

Slide 131 Fueling the WP 165 - Steam Dept. Work Session April 2022 - Erin Swain

Slide 132 Roger Stabler and Hank Stiles - Steam Dept. Work Session April 2022 - Kirk Baer

Slide 133 Roger Stabler - Steam Dept. Work Session April 2022 - Erin Swain

Slide 134 Stopped for Fuel - Steam Dept. Work Session April 2022 - Erin Swain

Slide 135 Ready For Crew Training-014/9/22 - Kerry Cochran

Slide 136 Ready For Crew Training-024/9/22 - Kerry Cochran

Slide 137 Crew Training4/9/22 - Kerry Cochran

Slide 138 2022 Crew Training - 4/9/22 - Kerry Cochran

Slide 139 Ann and Janet Getting Museum Store Ready to Open 4/9/22 - Kerry Cochran

Slide 140 New Stock Museum Store-01 4/9/22 - Kerry Cochran

Slide 141 New Stock Museum Store-02 4/9/22 - Kerry Cochran

Slide 142 Greg and David Elems fired up QRR 1100 and took it out around the balloon for quick bit of exercise and to inspect the track. All seems good and we really need some more snow. 2/11/22 - Greg Elems

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Slide 150 Still a good amount of snow and ice at the museum. WP 805-A sitting in the snow on a cold Saturday afternoon. 1/15/22 - Greg Elems

Slide 151 Another cold Saturday afternoon view in Portola on January 15, 2022. - Greg Elems


Page last updated:  Sat Oct 3 05:49:59 AM PDT 2026