North Shore Scenic Railroad. We would love to see you down there. I'm a volunteer there, and I have an autistic cousin, so he would love to meet you and talk about everything. Hope to see you there!
He was, when I was a greenhorn attending Narrow gauge conventions in the US in the late 1980ies (I am from Germany, and not always the convention dates fit into our vacation plans) I stumbeled upon Ward at a layout tour. We talked and suddenly he changed his voice to Donald Duck voice. I was flabbergasted when the layout owner told me, he was the animator of Donald Duck. Ward himself was to humble and modest to tell me that. We had a fun time ending up with an invitation to Grizzly Flats in the following year. Still have a corner on my layout called Grizzly Flats featuring a guy in knickebockers resembling Ward fleeing from a grizzly .
The property around where the railroad was has been developed. So it's very hard to actually tell where it actually was Because there's little evidence left that there was a real railroad there Of The original probably 10 acres of property There's about 2 acres left
My grandfather had the honor of riding behind Emma Nevada before eventual retirement along with the crew of the atsf 3751
That's so cool!
How cool to have your own train in your backyard
Yes, what a dream!
It'd be awesome to have my own train in my backyard! I wish I could've ridden on the Grizzly Flats!
Agreed! What a dream!!
North Shore Scenic Railroad. We would love to see you down there.
I'm a volunteer there, and I have an autistic cousin, so he would love to meet you and talk about everything.
Hope to see you there!
Sounds fun. Hopefully I'll make it to that area soon. Thanks for watching!
GFRR - 1942-2006
trains donated to Southern California Railway Museum
depot was given to John Lassater but burned in the 2018 fires
What a shame that the depot burned. Those fires were devastating.
Ward Kimball must have been quite a character.
Agreed, he looks like a fun guy. Especially because he loved trains.
He was, when I was a greenhorn attending Narrow gauge conventions in the US in the late 1980ies (I am from Germany, and not always the convention dates fit into our vacation plans) I stumbeled upon Ward at a layout tour. We talked and suddenly he changed his voice to Donald Duck voice. I was flabbergasted when the layout owner told me, he was the animator of Donald Duck. Ward himself was to humble and modest to tell me that. We had a fun time ending up with an invitation to Grizzly Flats in the following year. Still have a corner on my layout called Grizzly Flats featuring a guy in knickebockers resembling Ward fleeing from a grizzly .
The property around where the railroad was has been developed. So it's very hard to actually tell where it actually was Because there's little evidence left that there was a real railroad there
Of The original probably 10 acres of property There's about 2 acres left
I guess development is better than an abandoned railroad in that area. Too bad they didn't leave it there and build a park or something.
I am wondering how he chose the Grizzly Flats name. The Caldor narrow gauge logging railroad was used in the area of Grizzly Flat California.
Good question. I honestly don't know why he named it that.