[Fwd: Re: [Espee] [Fwd: (rshsdepot) Fw: Boca, California railroad station]]

[Norm Metcalf <metcalf_@_attglobal.net>]

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Subject: 	Re: [Espee] [Fwd: (rshsdepot) Fw: Boca, California railroad 
station]
Date: 	Mon, 25 Jul 2005 03:33:40 EDT
From: 	hsweetser_@_aol.com
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In a message dated 05-07-24 23:07:38 EDT, Norm Metcalf fowarded this message 
from rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net:

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Subject:    (rshsdepot) Fw: Boca, California railroad station
To:      rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net
 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
 From: Ilwells20_@_aol.com mailto: IIwells20@aol.com
 
>In the late 1950s, my uncle bought the old train station at Boca, California 
for $100.....Recently we decided to present a window box containing artifacts 
from Boca to my uncle for his 80th birthday and discovered no one in the 
family ever took a picture of the station. I'm hoping you can help us locate one.


Disregard my previous attempt to post this message to the Yahoo SP Group.

Photos of the Boca depot taken in the 1950s can be purchased from Robert 
Morris Photography, 210 South First St., Dunsmuir, CA 96025, ph. 530-235-0124.  
For most of the depot photos he has, photos were taken of each of the fours 
sides of the buildings.  For a low-resolution internet view of the Boca depot on 
his website, go to http://www.snowcrest/photobob/sac.html

The Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection at the Brancroft Library at the 
University of California at Berkley lists four photos of Boca.  Most likely the 
subject is the depot but I don't know this for sure.  Prints can be ordered from 
the library. 

Other possible sources of photos of Boca can be the Vernon Sappers Collection 
at the Western Railway Museum at Rio Vista, CA (many of the views in this 
collection are similar to those found in the Graves Collection) and the Union 
Pacific Railroad Museum in Omaha.

John Sweetser


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