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| The Railroad Paintings |
| On these pages are paintings I did in the 1980s, most of them custom ordered by narrow-gauge railroad modelers. Few of these trains still run, and most no longer exist. They were all painted from old black-and-white photos taken in the heyday of the steam locomotive. - Pat Leners |
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| Above: Shay No. 7 of the now-defunct West Side Lumber Co. in Tuolumne, CA. These little locos hauled flatbed cars loaded with logs from the Sierra Nevada foothills to the sawmills where the logs were shaped into lumber. Narrow-gauge railroad logging at WSL ended in 1960, when trucks became the means of transporting the cut timber. Today, helicopters are frequently used. TITLE: "Tuolumne" Painting size: 21" x 30" |
| TITLE: "Railroad Crossing - No. 15" Painting size: 21" x 30" |
| WSL No. 15 again, bringing logs over a trestle and down into town. TITLE: "Swing Job at Niagara" Painting size: 28" x 35" |
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