Our goal is to return the motorcar back to its 1953 configuration.
The Tally Ho -- its affectionate name from its glory days in the 1930s and 40s -- was reconfigured sometime between 1953 and the mid-1960s by then owner Hal Wilmunder. He added the outside walls and reconfigured the windows on the cab/housing.
The railbus was lettered as the Camino, Cable and Northern No. 10 and worked on Wilmunder's tourist railroad from 1964 to 1974. Richard Wright, pictured in the "fireman's seat," recently shared this picture of the railbus and two Shay locomotives in Camino. It was taken in May 1970.The Shay on the right is the Diamond and Caldor No. 4. Wilmunder moved it from the fairgrounds to Camino in the fall of 1966.
"Friday morning (September 30, 1966) the old Caldor Shay engine at the fairgrounds was moved to the Camino, Cable and Northern railroad yards at Caimno, where it will be put back in operating condition and used on the narrow gauge line," said the October 6, 1966 issue of the Mountain Democrat.
In the end, the Shay was not renovated and was returned to the fairgrounds placed back on display.
2 comments:
Very slight correction. Since Dad (Richard Wright) is in that picture (on the left), I'm guessing that my grandfather (Bob Wright) actually took it. (It could have been my uncle Roger, who's also not visible in the picture--I can't tell who the shadowed figure is to the right of my grandmother--but I don't know)
Mark Baker-Wright
Thanks, Mark. Your correction is noted. I'll update the blog.
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