45 Days on a Gen3 Hayabusa - 2023 Pashnit Touring
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We roll into Coulterville for a quick break. Coulterville is a tiny gold rush town in the middle of a stretch of road we call The Little Dragon
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Where the RailFans at?
We have this in our backyard, outside Sonora in Jamestown is Railtown 1897, a state historic park that's known as The Movie Railroad. If you've seen an old-timey locomotive in a movie over the last 100 years, chances are it was filmed in Jamestown. Yup. Far back as 1919. The most well known recent films are Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, and all the train scenes in Back to the Future were filmed here.
It's been a couple of years since we've stopped here
We have this in our backyard, outside Sonora in Jamestown is Railtown 1897, a state historic park that's known as The Movie Railroad. If you've seen an old-timey locomotive in a movie over the last 100 years, chances are it was filmed in Jamestown. Yup. Far back as 1919. The most well known recent films are Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, and all the train scenes in Back to the Future were filmed here.
It's been a couple of years since we've stopped here
Jamestown is right outside Sonora, California.
https://www.railtown1897.org/
The original roundhouse is still in operation where they maintain & repair their trains that reside here.
https://www.railtown1897.org/
The original roundhouse is still in operation where they maintain & repair their trains that reside here.
The guys have been bugging me for years about Merch.
Finally, got some shirts available, and yes, that bike image for my company logo is of a Hayabusa.
The 20 is for 2023 being my 20th anniversary year of doing these Motorcycle tours.
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There's a huge wall display of all the movies they've made here. We all went through them and compared notes of which films we've all seen.
Original roundhouse workshop for train locomotives still in use.
An original working turntable allows the engines to be shunted into respective work bays.
Shay Locomotive: this locomotive has vertical pistons in the middle of the train, which power long driveshafts extending forward and to the rear of the train, turning bevel gears that line the side of the train. These trains were known as geared steam locomotives and built throughout the 1880s. Steam pistons are mounted vertically on the right side of the train, and the boiler was offset left to counterbalance the weight of the pistons. Nearly 3000 of these types of locomotives were built until 1945. Shay locomotives are really impressive beasts for pulling heavy mining or logging train cars up steep grades.
An original working turntable allows the engines to be shunted into respective work bays.
Shay Locomotive: this locomotive has vertical pistons in the middle of the train, which power long driveshafts extending forward and to the rear of the train, turning bevel gears that line the side of the train. These trains were known as geared steam locomotives and built throughout the 1880s. Steam pistons are mounted vertically on the right side of the train, and the boiler was offset left to counterbalance the weight of the pistons. Nearly 3000 of these types of locomotives were built until 1945. Shay locomotives are really impressive beasts for pulling heavy mining or logging train cars up steep grades.
Wow! Open-air crankshaft? That's amazing.
These unusual Shay Locomotives, we've got three that i know of locally on static display.
Here's the one in nearby Arnold at the logging museum.
They're kinda unusual, as the boiler is offset to the left to balance the huge weight of the pistons that power the driveshaft that runs the length of the locomotive.
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