Passenger Trains

First YVRR Train.
Photo: Postcard.
First official Yosemite Valley Railroad Train to El Portal.
This is a "doctored" postcard image.
note: the coaches are second hand and are open vestibule type,
the Hicks coaches had not yet been delivered.

Three Car Train.
Photo: Edgar Cohen, Authors collection.
Car Train. This image was "hand tinted" and used for the postal card in Box Canyon.

#20 Promotional
Number 20

Number 20 at Harte
Photo: Courtesy of Bernard Schyns
Number 20 with a flat, for hauling automobiles, and a short passenger
consist passing Harte Station.

Number 21 at El Portal
Photo:
Number 21 with three car passenger train along the Merced River.

Number 21 at El Portal
Photo:
Number 21 Arriving at El Portal

Train near Mountain King.
Photo: Edgar Cohen, Authors collection.
1907 Train between Mountain King and Goods Gulch

working locomotive.
Photo: Postcard Merced County Historical Society.
Going Up The Merced Canyon


Photo:
Number 20 and Coaches

working locomotive.
Photo: Merced County Historical Society.
Locomotive working a grade in the Merced Canyon

#23 and its train SPCo. Merced
Photo: Authors Collection
Number 23 and its train at Merceds Southern Pacific Depot

#23 and its train Merced Falls
Photo: Authors Collection
Number 23 and its train at Merced Falls March 10, 1940

Photo: Authors Collection
Train, with Observation Number 330, passing through Merced Falls, 1940

#23 and its train Merced Falls
Photo: Fred Stoes
Number 23 and its train at Briceberg

#23 and its train Merced Falls
Photo: Authors Collection
Number 23 ready to depart El Portal

#23 and its train between Snelling and Merced Falls
Number 23 and its train at speed between Snelling and Merced Falls

YV Train crossing 16th Street
Crossing Highway 99, 16th Street, near R Street - Merced

Short passenger train in the Canyon of the Merced River
Number 23 and perhaps combination 105 following the river.

Short passenger train in the Canyon of the Merced River
Number 25 in Merced Canyon - passenger train in tow. Date 1940.

#29 and passenger train at Merced
Number 29 with a train of varnish!
Merced

#23 and its train in the canyon
Photo: Authors collection:
Number 23 with Combination 105 and Coach 302 or Observation 330 heading west toward Merced.
(February 22, 1937)

Drifting past Lake McClure
Three car train coasting along Lake McClure

#25 and its train in the canyon
Photo: Fred Stoes (1940 or 1941)
Number 25 working steam on a slight grade along a peaceful Merced River. Baggage car 107 with doors open - must have been a warm day in the canyon.

#23 and its train in the canyon
Photo: Guy L. Dunscomb (December 12, 1940)
Number 23 at Clearinghouse with baggage car 107 and Observation 330 in tow.

#23 and its train at Clearinghouse
Photo: Guy L. Dunscomb (1940)
Number 23 passing Clearinghouse.

#23 and its train in the canyon
Photo: Demoro Archives, Ken Meeker Collection
Number 23 between Snelling and Merced Falls with consist of baggage car 107 and Observation 330.

#23 near Merced Falls
Photo: Guy Duncomb
Train number 2 headed by Number 23 between Snelling and Merced Falls.
April 4, 1940.

#23 in canyon
Photo: Guy Duncomb
Train stopped rocks on the rails.
January 12, 1941.

#23 in canyon
Photo: Guy Duncomb
Rocks removed - train is moving again.
January 12, 1941.

#23 in canyon
Photo: Fred Stoes; Lee Foster Collection
Number 23 with 107 and 302 in tow heading to El Portal.

#23 in canyon
Photo: Lee Foster Collection
Number 23 is the motive power for train number 3 at Southern Pacifics Merced Depot.

#25 SP depot
Photo: Authors Collection
25 at Southern Pacific Depot with Train Number 2 in Tow, June 28, 1941

Artist: Unknown. Authors Collection
Mini - Painting of No. 22 with Passenger Consist
Ready to Depart El Portal