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Dak Dillon Photo Charter Norgrove Railway 4/5/2025 Part 2



by Chris Guenzler

Fortified after a good meal, all participants rode the train to the next photo runby location.









Photo runby eleven.







Freight train photo runby twelve, after which we reboarded the passenger train.





Approaching Oceanview station.





Oceanview station.





The Pacific Ocean from the Oceanview station.





The reverse move.











Passenger train photo runby thirteen.





The steam engine's builder's plate.













Freight train photo runby fourteen, being paced by a restored farm truck. Two of the railway's volunteers rode the freight train throughout the day for braking reasons; this particular instance, Peter Nott rode.







The train at the station.





A posed scene with Adrian, who conveyed all messages from Dak to the crew throughout the day, and the engineer of the freight train.





The vintage Norgrove Railway fire truck.





Setting the scene for the next photo runby.









As there was plenty of room to spread out, I moved up the hill over the tunnel for photo runby fifteen with the fire truck.











Freight train photo runby sixteen with the farm truck.





Reverse move through Tunnel 1.





The passenger train reversing through the tunnel.







Passenger train photo runby seventeen.





Norgrove Railway 8 from the other side.







The freight train performed photo runby eighteen, then the passenger train then reversed to pick us up.







The freight train as viewed from the rear of the passenger train.





We then went under the Lone Tree Loop.





Norgrove Railway 8 leading.







Photo runby nineteen at the Garden Terrace.







Freight train photo runby twenty.





The freight train's reverse move, after which we reboarded the passenger train.





We returned to the boarding area.







Everyone was in for an extra treat since the next activity was a triple-header.





Norgrove Railway 0-4-0T 6 "Buckeye" in the lead, Norgrove Railway 0-4-0T 8 in second and United States Army 2-6-2T 5240 bringing up the rear.





Crossing Trestle Creek.



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Rolling along the vineyards.





Rounding the curve at Garden Terrace.







Above that curve.







On another curve bound for Lone Tree Loop.









Ascending Lone Tree Loop.





Looking down from where we come.





Climbing the hill to where we detrained.





The locomotives then reversed down the hill and went through the tunnel.







Photo runby twenty-one. I climbed the hill in the middle of Lone Tree Loop for the next views.











Photo runby twenty-two.





The reverse move into the tunnel.





















Photo runby twenty-three, after which we all reboarded.





The reverse move near Tunnel 1











Photo runby twenty-four near the caboose.





On board the triple-header.





Let the vineyards be fruitful.









The reverse move.



















Photo runby twenty-five.





















The journey from the vineyards to the boarding area.





United States Army 2-6-2T 5240 builder's plate.



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