Pacific Railroad Society, Inc., 210 W. Bonita Ave., San Dimas, CA 91773

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Pacific Railroad Society celebrates Nation Train Day

When: 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Saturday, May 12
Where: Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal
General Admission: Free

Now in its 5th year, National Train Day is back to celebrate train travel and the ways trains touch the lives of people with events across America. This year, festivities will highlight the unique perspective passengers enjoy as they take in the vastness and beauty of the American landscape, from cities big and small, to country vistas and everything in between, when traveling by rail.

As part of National Train Day, each major market event features live entertainment, interactive and educational exhibits, kids’ activities, model train displays and tours of Amtrak equipment, freight and commuter trains, and notable private railroad cars. Special thanks to LA County Metro Transit Authority.

The National Forum was a featured attraction at the San Bernardino Railroad Days Celebration on April 21 and 22, 2012. Several hundred people took the tour through the train which was brought to San Bernardino from Los Angeles by AT&SF steam engine 3751. PRS also had a table in the station arcade staffed by museum volunteers.

 

Exc # 543 Holiday Daylight!

PRS's National Forum Open Section Sleeper and Bill Hattrick's the Overland Trail lounge car travel to San Luis Obispo!


Crew PhotoCrew
Forum and Trail 543
Bill

Pacific Rairoad Museum in the Pasadena Star-News
San Dimas Museum
Curator Dave Housh, left, with Marti Ann Draper of the Pacific Railroad
Society in front of the Pacific Railroad Museum and library inside an old
train depot in San Dimas on Thursday.
(Pasadena Star-News, Keith Birmingham / Staff Photographer)
Read more: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_19162047#ixzz1bkqRbRoW
Click on the photo to download a pdf copy of Pasadena Star-News article.

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Just one of many photos at the
Pacific Railroad Society Museum Library in San Dimas.
Photo by the late Don Strickland.

Exc 542 photo
THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO MADE OUR DIAMOND JUBILEE SPECIAL A SUCCESS

Areial Video
PRS Exc 542 Aerial Video, used with permission from TrainOrders.com

Special Train
Photo by Justin Houchen

PRS Diamond Jubilee Special Train - Crew Photo

Crew Photo

Credit: Photo by Russell Jones, Equipment and Editing by Matt Wiles.

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PRS News Updates: 

  • PRS is now on Facebook - Click here to go to Facebook - Pacific Railroad Society
  • May 2012 Wheel Clicks and past months now on-line under publications.
  • Now make Donations to your favorite PRS fund on-line via this web site under the Membership tab on the left.
  • Now accepting memberships and renewals on-line.  Click Membership tab to the left.
  • Membership Meeting: May 4th, 7:30pm, Valencia Room, Joslyn Center, 210 N. Chapel Ave., Alhambra, CA
  • Rolling Stock Repair Days: (8:30am to ?), Noakes & Herbert Sts., City of Commerce, CA
  • Pacific Railroad Museum Work Party:  , Satudays: 10:00am to 4:00pm, Wednesdays: 1:00 to 5:00pm, 210 W. Bonita Ave., San Dimas, CA

     

    Photo by Fred Knox
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Exc535 Lamy, NM

Excursion # 535 "Let's Go by Train to Santa Fe" featured
Pacific Railroad Society's 1954 "National Forum", a sleeper with
six Roomettes, four Bedrooms, and six Open Section Sleepers.

 

Hi-Level Car
Pacific Railroad Society's new Hi-Level Coach/Dormitory Transition Car
Photo by Vince Cammarano

Do you have photos or video of past PRS excursions that you would like to share.  Looking for a few good ones of PRS rolling stock, our museum, or other PRS event.  Send photos or a link, to the PRS Webmaster:  PacificRRSociety@sbcglobal.net  Thanks.

 

National Forum
The "National Forum", PRS's 50-year old sleeping car that is Amtrak certified for speeds up to 90-mph.  Click on the Railroad Equipment and Excursions links on the left.
  
PRS Museum
The PRS Museum and Library in San Dimas  Click on the San Dimas Museum and Library links on the left.

 

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Wheel Clicks - PRS's monthly publication
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PACIFIC RAILROAD SOCIETY is composed of people from all walks of life who share a common interest in railroads. We are one of the oldest and largest independent rail enthusiast organizations in the United States, having an average annual membership of over 650. Donations are tax deductible under Federal and State law.

Membership in the Society is open to anyone interested in railroads or rail transit. Train travel, history, preservation, equipment restoration and photography are among the interests and activities of the Society. They are all done on a voluntary basis.

IF YOU ENJOY RAILROADS AND RAIL TRANSIT, THE PACIFIC RAILROAD SOCIETY IS FOR YOU!


Why These Colors?  

These colors were chosen for the Pacific Railroad Society home pages because they are the official colors of the club.

PRS colors of yellow and dark green came about when we acquired our first passenger car, the Imperial Bird.  At the time, the Bird was painted UP armor yellow with red stripes.  Since we were putting the car into service immediately, we wanted to paint it in some kind of distinctive PRS way which would not involve a major painting operation.

Wayne Melching, Pacific Railroad Society co-founding member and Vice President when the Imperial Bird was acquired, said that he always liked the yellow and green used by Chicago and Northwestern (C&NW) on their passenger trains.  The idea of dark green and Armor Yellow was well received within the society. The red stripes were painted over in dark green and dark green lettering and numbering was applied.

Viola! Instant Pacific Railroad Society paint scheme!  Later, a Pacific Railroad Society standard paint scheme was figured out, with the top letter board being wider (per C&NW practice) with the name Pacific Railroad Society in an expanded running script, the car name and numbers in a distinctive san-serif green, the roofs, ends, and under bodies in UP gray, the trucks in bright silver, the end doors in salmon, the vestibules in light cream yellow and the body paint UP armor yellow.

Pacific Railroad Society has never had all its cars painted this way.  This paint scheme can be seen in one of the photographs of the National Forum.


Pacific Railroad Society, Inc.
210 W. Bonita Ave.
San Dimas, CA 91773

Pacific Railroad Museum
210 W. Bonita Ave.
San Dimas, CA 91773
Phone: (909) 394-0616


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