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Collection: Books and Periodicals > Nevada County Historical Society Bulletins

Volume 030-1 - January 1976 (10 pages)

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Long Ravine bridge where the Central Pacific’s Lightning Express stopped for photographer J. M. Jacobs to take this view of the Nevada Co. N.G.R.R. in 1876. Dec. 6: City ordinance prohibiting boys from riding or jumping off the railroad cars or hanging around the depots. The Nevada County Narrow Guage R.R. operated successfully for sixty-six years, carrying freight and passengers. Special trains ran between the two towns for dances, political rallys, picnics andthe Centennial celebrations. On July 25, ‘76, it was stopped by a cow asleep on the tracks and waited until she ambled off at her own ease. Many amusing incidents as well as tragic ones happened during the train’s sixty-six years run, such as that day in 1879 when Chinese woodchoppers accidently felled a tree onto the tracks near the You Bet station, and were vainly attempting to straighten them when the train arrived. Then too, the conductor was sometimes left behind! Once at the Grass Valley station where he had to make his own way to Nevada City, and another time at Chicago Park after a Sunday School picnic. On being missed, the train backed up and found him resignedly sitting on a stump. Stopping on the Greenhorn bridge to be photographed. BICENTENNIAL OFFICERS FOR NEVADA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1976 OFFICERS: President: Constance Baer, P.O. Box 186, Rough & Ready, Ist. Vice President: Rebecca Miller, 302-A Main Street, G.V. 2nd, Vice President: Brian R. Ross, Rt, 1-Box 898, G.V. Recording Secretary: Brita Rozynski, P.O. Box 1036, N.C. Executive Board Sec.: Anita M. Morrison, P.O. Box 272, G.V. Membership Secretary: Frances Wright, P.O. Box 93, G.V. Treasurer: Lea Pengelly, P.O. Box 357, G.V. 1976 DIRECTORS: Louise Dudley, Rural Route Smartsville Robert A. Gates, Sutton Way, Grass Valley Marguerite Gentili, Hubbard Road, Nevada City Isabel Hefelfinger, 430 Washington Street, Nevada City R. Arch Henry, 504 Broad Street, Nevada City Stuart Lott, 108 Butte View Drive, Grass Valley William Wilbur, Washington Star Route, Nevada City Glen R,. Chileski, Rt. 3, Box 2036-B, Grass Valley Alan D, Davies, 542 Main Street, Nevada City COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN: Budget and Finance: Arlie and Sibley Hansen Ways and Means: Rebecca Miller Museums; Hjalmer Berg and Glenn Jones Library: Doris Foley Sites and Markers: Florence Kelly Publicity: Karen Grimes Publications: Clinton Lee Tours and Special Events: Hjalmer Berg and Rebecca Miller Liason: Isabel Hefelfinger Constitution: Doris Foley Carriage House: Roman Rozynski Pickup and Storage: Bob Butterfield