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[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in California]]
[[Category:Railways on the National Register of Historic Places in California]]
[[Category:Mariposa County, California]]
[[Category:Mariposa County, California]]
[[Category:Railway vehicles on the National Register of Historic Places]]
[[Category:Railway vehicles on the National Register of Historic Places]]

Revision as of 18:01, 10 September 2016

Track Bus No. 19
Track Bus No. 19 is located in California
Track Bus No. 19
Track Bus No. 19 is located in the United States
Track Bus No. 19
LocationRailtown 1897 State Historic Park
Built1919 (1919)
Built byA. Meister & Sons
NRHP reference No.78000363[1]
Added to NRHPMay 22, 1978

Track Bus No. 19 is a motorized rail car built on a White Motor Company standard truck chassis. It was built by A. Meister & Sons in 1919 for the Hetch Hetchy Railroad and used as an ambulance to transport sick, injured or dead workers, and to carry passengers.[2] An additional five similar track buses were ordered, none were exactly the same.

The car sat unused for 32 years before being restored and housed in Modesto then El Portal and in 1997 moved to the Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown California.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Hetch Hetchy Railcar #19". Retrieved 25 September 2013.