Press Release
April 15, 2015
Vintage steam engine back on track after four-year overhaul
Contact:
Keith Severson, Graniterock marketing manager 831-768-2063
Paul Hammond, California State Railroad Museum, 916-849-0679
Sacramento - Graniterock’s historic steam engine No. 10 is shinier and stronger than ever before thanks to an extensive overhaul of the boiler that started in 2011.
The oil-fired steam engine is back on track at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, where it is used to pull passenger excursion trains on weekends along the levees of the Sacramento River.
The locomotive officially returned to service April 11.
Museum visitors can book train ride tickets online at www.csrmf.org or purchase tickets in person beginning at 10:30 a.m. the day of the ride at the Sacramento Southern Railroad ticket office on Front Street between J and K streets.
Graniterock purchased engine No. 10, built by the H.K. Porter Co. for the U.S. Army in 1942, from the Army Corps of Engineers after World War II.
The engine was used to haul rock from the company’s quarry near Watsonville before she was replaced with a General Electric 470-horsepower diesel locomotive switch engine in 1951.
Graniterock’s late President and CEO Bruce Woolpert had the rusty, broken engine restored to full working order in the 1990s and donated the engine to the Sacramento museum in May 1997.
Rose Ann Woolpert wrote a children’s book that features the engine and history of mining rock. It is called Engine No. 10. The book is available at the California State Railroad Museum and www.yeswewillbooks.com.
Engine No. 10 was also featured in Steven Spielberg’s 2005 movie, Memoirs of a Geisha.
Graniterock is a private, family-owned company that was founded on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1900. Graniterock has operations in Watsonville, Santa Cruz, Seaside, Salinas, Hollister, Aromas, Felton, Oakland, San Jose, Redwood City and South San Francisco. The company supplies high-quality construction materials and its Construction Division is a significant regional heavy engineering contractor building roadways, airports and private commercial and residential projects.
Keith Severson, Graniterock marketing manager 831-768-2063
Paul Hammond, California State Railroad Museum, 916-849-0679
Sacramento - Graniterock’s historic steam engine No. 10 is shinier and stronger than ever before thanks to an extensive overhaul of the boiler that started in 2011.
The oil-fired steam engine is back on track at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, where it is used to pull passenger excursion trains on weekends along the levees of the Sacramento River.
The locomotive officially returned to service April 11.
Museum visitors can book train ride tickets online at www.csrmf.org or purchase tickets in person beginning at 10:30 a.m. the day of the ride at the Sacramento Southern Railroad ticket office on Front Street between J and K streets.
Graniterock purchased engine No. 10, built by the H.K. Porter Co. for the U.S. Army in 1942, from the Army Corps of Engineers after World War II.
The engine was used to haul rock from the company’s quarry near Watsonville before she was replaced with a General Electric 470-horsepower diesel locomotive switch engine in 1951.
Graniterock’s late President and CEO Bruce Woolpert had the rusty, broken engine restored to full working order in the 1990s and donated the engine to the Sacramento museum in May 1997.
Rose Ann Woolpert wrote a children’s book that features the engine and history of mining rock. It is called Engine No. 10. The book is available at the California State Railroad Museum and www.yeswewillbooks.com.
Engine No. 10 was also featured in Steven Spielberg’s 2005 movie, Memoirs of a Geisha.
Graniterock is a private, family-owned company that was founded on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1900. Graniterock has operations in Watsonville, Santa Cruz, Seaside, Salinas, Hollister, Aromas, Felton, Oakland, San Jose, Redwood City and South San Francisco. The company supplies high-quality construction materials and its Construction Division is a significant regional heavy engineering contractor building roadways, airports and private commercial and residential projects.
