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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 19, 2011
Caption: Yosemite Valley Railroad Marker - Panel #2
Additional Description: Photo captions:
(Left): The Yosemite Valley Railroad strikes for the National Park ....Up its matchless canyon this new trail toils, unfolding moment by moment one of the most picturesque series of mountain pictures that nature has fashioned in her whole wide world. Lanier Barlett, Pacific Monthly, 1907
(Center): In 2008 the National Park Service, The Yosemite Fund, and local volunteer railfans worked together to reconstruct this turntable on its original foundation.
(Right): Caboose 15 from the Yosemite Valley Railroad has been on display in El Portal since 1961. Alongside it sits Engine 6 from the Hetch Hetchy Railroad. The train station to your right, once located in Bagby, now serves as headquarters for the Yosemite Assocation.
Submitted: September 2, 2011, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p170398
File Size: 2.530 Megabytes

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