Treasures of the Jamestown Roundhouse: Hetch Hetchy Railbus #19 The Hetch Hetchy Railroad (HHRR) was a 68-mile, standard gauge line that operated in Northern California from 1917 to 1949 an... (more)

Treasures of the Jamestown Roundhouse: Sierra #34 When the Sierra Railroad of California dieselized in the mid-1950s, it retained several of its steam locomotives for a side business that c... (more)

The Movie Queen blows off steam. Railtown Engineer George Sapp watches carefully as Sierra #3's Fireman (on the walkway in front of the cab) lifts the blow-down valve, unleashing 160 psi of... (more)

Cab ride on Sierra Number 3. Railtown Engineer George Sapp and Fireman Warren Smith carefully coordinate the departure of Sierra Number 3 and her special Passenger Extra from the site of a ... (more)

My ride behind the Movie Star. A few rays of sunlight poke through the clouds as the legendary Sierra Number 3 passes her fire patrol during a run-around maneuver at Rock Quarry. The shor... (more)

The Three-Spot Lives! Were it not for a strange twist of fate, the little 10-wheeler you see here might have led a very undistinguished career for a California railroad and been scrapped 80... (more)

No. 34 was once a mainstay on Sierra (Railtown) passenger trains in the 1970s. Now privately owned, it last ran in 1980.

2-8-0 28 and 2-8-2 34 stand silently in the Jamestown roundhouse.

Sierra Railroad 3, 4-6-0, (Rogers 4493 / 1891), originally Prescott & Arizona Central Railway 3, is under repair in Sierra Railway's Tr-Dam Building. Sierra 3's new boiler was manufactured by Chel... (more)

Sierra number 34 and 28 power a special from Jamestown to Oakdale and return. The number 3 met the returning special at Copperstown and helped it back to Jamestown.

On display at the Historic Jamestown Shops and Roundhouse is this neatly painted ALCO MRS1 (RSX4). This unit has worked for both the the US Army as their B-2063 and the US Navy as their 65-000613.... (more)

The Sierra RR ran a special from Jamestown down to Oakdale using the 34. On the return trip it got the 3 and 28 tacked on at Cooperstown for the grade to Jamestown

Eastbound and heading uphill toward Sonora and Standard in December of 1964, Sierra #40 takes the switch at the West end of Jamestown under the watchful eye of Jamestown Trainmaster, the late Jess... (more)

Double heading Baldwins--one steam, one diesel--as the "Sierra Supper Chief" dinner train heads West from Jamestown. On the cab of the #28, directly below the number is"F.R. Egan", the general man... (more)

Sierra #3 is putting away equipment after a day of filming an episode of "The Big Valley". The Jamestown depot would later burn but the red freight house still stands. The #3 is currently schedule... (more)