Coal Car - Coalinga, CA - Static Train Cars on Waymarking.com

Located in front of the R.C. Baker Memorial Museum is a railroad coal car, along with a few other static displays. The discovery of coal in the northern foothills of Mount Diablo to the north inspired the name 'Coalinga' when laid out by Southern Pacific Railroad engineers in 1891. Legend has it during those days there were three coaling stations: “A”, “B” and “C”. The name Coalinga is derived from mixing “Coaling” with Station “A”, with the “A” meaning 'to arrive.'

There is a placard that hangs on a wall nearby the coal car and reads:

COALING STATION A
STATION A WAS ONE OF THREE MINES (A, B, & C)
IN THE COALINGA HILLS WHERE COAL WAS
MINED. THE COAL WAS TRANSFERRED FROM
MULE DRIVEN ORE WAGONS, THEN BY COAL
CARS PULLED BY OLD BETSY TO THE TRANSFER
DOCK AT ALCALDE IN WARTHAN CANYON. FROM
THERE THE COAL CARS WERE HOOKED TO A
SOUTHERN PACIFIC ENGINE AND PULLED TO
GOSHEN NEAR VISALIA, CA, FROM THERE THE
CARS WERE SENT TO POINTS NORTH AND SOUTH.

ON APRIL 3, 1906 THE CITY OF COALINGA WAS
INCORPORATED DERIVING ITS NAME FROM
COALING STATION A

This coal car is viewable from the sidewalk and behind a fence and can been seen at any time.

Type of train car: freight car Location: R.C. Baker Memorial Museum Price (In local currency): 0 Interaction allowed: no Visiting hours: Not listed

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