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| Name: | Mattes |
| Location: | Stein am Rhein Stein am Rhein Schweiz |
| Homepage: | Reisebüro |
| Date: | 25-Jan-2005 08:54:59 |
| Message: | Wonderful and interesting site. My
Congratulations to you!
I come back for sure.
Best regards, Mattes
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| Name: | Larry C |
| Location: | Santa Maria |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 16-Dec-2004 22:58:02 |
| Message: | Are there future plans for an N scale layout at
the museum? |
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| Name: | Larry Taber |
| Location: | Orange Grove TX US |
| Homepage: | Orange Grove Area Museum |
| Date: | 11-Dec-2004 18:08:02 |
| Message: | I have visited youe website and would like to
compliment you on your fine work. I am a
railroad historical enthusiest myself. Please
take the time to visit us at the above website
and view our caboose restoration process. |
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| Name: | Mariana |
| Location: | |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 12-Nov-2004 03:05:02 |
| Message: | Good site. Nice! |
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| Name: | Kyle |
| Location: | |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 6-Aug-2004 12:51:25 |
| Message: | Wonderful webpage. I hope the museum is just as
great! |
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| Name: | Renee Diana Beck |
| Location: | Santa Maria CA USA |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 29-May-2004 20:01:43 |
| Message: | Does anyone in this valley ever lend out
Woodland Scenics rock molds?
The cost to buy everything needed to build a
layout is staggering. Perhaps sharing things
would be useful? |
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| Name: | Karen Evangelista |
| Location: | Guadalupe CA USA |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 5-May-2004 13:30:01 |
| Message: | We are here at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts &
Education Center located at 1065 Guadalupe St.,
Guadalupe, CA. We are a non-profit
organization with a goal and purpose of
providing the history of Guadalupe and our
surrounding cities. We are very interested in
purchasing the book "Railroads of the Santa
Maria Valley" hoping to find information on the
electric train that traveled from Guadalupe to
Santa Maria. If you have any suggestions
please let us know and please come visit. We
will be seeing you soon to visit and purchase
that literature to keep in our library. |
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| Name: | D. Staton |
| Location: | |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 26-Apr-2004 20:37:22 |
| Message: | I hope this brief note finds you well. I was looking for
information on railfan or locomotive enthusiasts in Southern
California on the internet and found your web site. I am trying
to contact interested groups of rail travel (clubs, associations,
etc) to let them know of an exhibition of imagess by famed
photographer O. Winston Link at the Staton-Greenberg Gallery
in Santa Barbara. Staton-Greenberg is located in Santa
Barbara's cultural corridor in downtown Santa Barbara. The
gallery features fine art photography, both vintage and
contemporary. I'm excited to have the Link exhibit as I have
admired his work for some time. The exhibit, "Whistle Stop,"
contains about 25 images; most of the photos were printed by
Link in the early '80s, but several are vintage, dating to the mid
1950s and they document the Norfolk and Western Railway
during that era. Link's signature image, "Hot Shot Eastbound,"
is included in the show, which will open May 1st and run
through late June at the gallery, 15 W. Anapamu Street, Santa
Barbara, CA 93101.
I'm writing in hopes that you might be able to help me in
locating the aforementioned groups and/or "fan clubs" so that I
might make them aware of this exhibit. We have a strong and
loyal following in Santa Barbara (as well as all of Southern
California and California in general), but I'd like to expand our
base a little bit with this show and I know railfans would love to
have the opportunity to see Winston's photographs. Can you
please suggest groups or contact people I might let know of
this exhibit via email or telephone numbers? I've searched on
the web for a while, but what I've been turning up is a lot of
model railroad enthusiasts (I'm sure they'd love Winston's work,
as well).
Any help you might offer would be greatly appreciated. You can
reach me by replying to this email address, or you might
respond to the email address at the gallery:
staton.greenberg@verizon.net
Best regards,
David Staton
Staton - Greenberg Gallery
15 W. Anapamu Street
Santa Barbrara, CA 93101
(805) 962-9876
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| Name: | John H. Mills |
| Location: | Greenbank Washington United States |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 29-Feb-2004 19:01:17 |
| Message: | Has definitely progressed since I last saw it. |
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| Name: | Michael Jordan |
| Location: | White Bear Lake Minnesota U.S. |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 6-Feb-2004 13:59:41 |
| Message: | I model the Santa Maria Valley Industrial
Railroad. Industrial, so I don't have to follow
the SMVRR excatly. I have modeled a few
industrial buildings as on the prototype, but I
have added a Sunkist produce packing plant along
with an orange grove. I model the SMVRR in HO
scale and in the late 50's. I found two GE 70
tonners in a model shop in Atascadero a few years
ago so I move freight from the "Southern Pacific"
interchange out of Guadalupe with the G.E.'s.
The model railroad is in a 12 by 20 foot room and
is about 80 percent complete.
I would like to know more about what was shipped
and recieved in this time period other than
produce, oil and beets. Also in my trips to the
area, I have failed to get a photograph of the
long packing building that is located in
Guadalupe, if there is a chance for some one to
email me a photograph I would appreciate it. |
| Name: | Mike Williams |
| Location: | SANTA MARIA CA |
| Homepage: | SMVRR group |
| Date: | 23-Aug-2003 17:07:29 |
| Message: | You are invited to join our group of train
lovers! |
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| Name: | travis bareford |
| Location: | las vegas nv usa |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 23-Aug-2003 09:54:10 |
| Message: | used to live in santa maria from 1960-1980.to
bad about union sugar going belly up.also track
out to battles refinery via rosemary farms. any
way good site guys.i'm now in lost wages working
for the u.p. "go warriors" |
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| Name: | p.l.bareford |
| Location: | las vegas nv us |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 23-Aug-2003 09:44:38 |
| Message: | |
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| Name: | Pat Dubrow |
| Location: | San Mateo CA USA |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 13-Aug-2003 21:49:29 |
| Message: | I enjoyed the information about Union Sugar at
Betteravia. Is it possible to contact the
author for more souces of information. I am
particularly interested in John W Atkinson |
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| Name: | Ken Kemzura |
| Location: | Los Angeles CA USA |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 5-Jul-2003 11:24:07 |
| Message: | Would like to learn about current operations and
active shippers on the line. Keep up the good
work! |
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| Name: | Cory Gibson |
| Location: | Brantford Ontario Canada |
| Homepage: | google |
| Date: | 29-Jun-2003 13:57:11 |
| Message: | I love your large steam locomotives,
especially your 4-8-4 Northern that I found on
google.ca. I myself have an HO scale locomotive
that my dad and I share. Im 16 years old and
hope one day when im older i will visit your
museum. |
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| Name: | Jim Hilliker |
| Location: | Monterey, CA USA |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 17-Jun-2003 21:20:33 |
| Message: | Hi! Great site! I lived in Santa Maria as a
kid, from 1957-1965! Loved those yellow diesel
locomotives of the SMVRR and my dad told me I
did once see a steam locomotive in action on the
SMVRR, but likely was too young to remember. I
always made my folks stop to watch the trains if
they were going across Broadway or check them
out if we were near the rail yard. The SMVRR
will always hold fond memories for me and thaks
for preserving its history! Beautiful historic
photos. I hope to visit the museum someday.
I also am a radio historian. Can anyone please
tell me if they have any details about the radio
station KSMR that was owned by Hancock and the
SMVRR around 1925-1929 or so and was located
inside the SMVRR headquarters building? Any
idea why Capt. Hancock was interested in owning
a radio station at the time and why he later
sold it?? Are there any photos of station
KSMR's broadcast studios inside the railroad
headquarters? I know KSMR was sold around 1931
and moved to Bakersfield, where it has operated
ever since as KERN radio, AM-1410...But, it
started out as KSMR for Santa Maria Radio or
maybe Railroad in 1925 at the SMVRR owned by
Allen Hancock. I'd appreciate any further
information anyone has about this pioneer radio
station of Santa Maria and California, and its
relationship to the railroad owner, Mr. Hancock.
Thank you.
Jim Hilliker
Monterey, CA |
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| Name: | Ron |
| Location: | |
| Homepage: | plan cruise |
| Date: | 14-Jun-2003 04:36:26 |
| Message: | Neat site ! |
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| Name: | Sandy |
| Location: | Miami FL USA |
| Homepage: | Must See |
| Date: | 4-Jun-2003 15:03:14 |
| Message: | Hi, my friend told me to come see the design on
your website and I am very impressed. I must
say whoever did the design should keep up the
great work :)) |
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| Name: | Keith Valley |
| Location: | Morro Bay Ca. USA |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 29-May-2003 20:44:31 |
| Message: | |
| Name: | Rick Laird |
| Location: | Troy Michigan |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 17-Apr-2003 14:04:45 |
| Message: | Former 20 year Resident (Orcutt). Modeling the
Santa Fe during steam-diesel transition. I
still have many friends and a daughter in Santa
Maria. |
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| Name: | Paul Passante |
| Location: | Wilmington NC USA |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 24-Feb-2003 08:08:52 |
| Message: | I am interested in exchanging website links.
Please visit our site and let me know. Thanks.
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| Name: | Bob McMillan |
| Location: | Santa Ana CA USA |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 14-Jan-2003 22:36:26 |
| Message: | Let's bring steam back to Santa Maria! |
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| Name: | Julia Young |
| Location: | Santa Maria CA Santa Barbara |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 3-Dec-2002 23:51:07 |
| Message: | Hello, my name is Julia Young and I work at the
Santa Maria Times as the entertainment listings
typist for our Entertainment Calendar. I would
greatly appreciate it if you would add me to your
mailing list for future events.My e-mail address
is juliayoung@pulitzer.net, and our address is as
follows:
Julia Young
Santa Maria Times
3200 Skyway Drive, Santa Maria, CA 93455
Thank you very much. Julia Young
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| Name: | Jim McCoy |
| Location: | Wasco Ca USA |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 14-Aug-2002 11:10:58 |
| Message: | Very impressive site,professionally done in
every way. Keep up the great work!! |
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| Name: | Dr.Sanad A. Al-Khashab |
| Location: | Mosul IRAQ |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 29-Jul-2002 23:59:55 |
| Message: | Very nice and cool site |
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| Name: | W. W. Williams |
| Location: | |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 25-Jul-2002 17:31:11 |
| Message: | Nice web page. I grew up in Santa Maria in the
50's. My buddy Donald and I used to ride our
bikes down to the yard to watch them switch out
the cars with steam(!). Once got a yard cab
ride, in the #100, I think. I'm a conductor
with Amtrak now. Wonder if the SMVRR had
anything to do with it?... |
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| Name: | Jene Lager |
| Location: | Ridgecrest CA usa |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 19-Jun-2002 13:57:18 |
| Message: | |
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| Name: | Bruce Petrarca |
| Location: | Arizona |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 5-Jun-2002 15:48:38 |
| Message: | I went to Righetti - part of the first class!
Now I have a model railroad business and model
SP and am working on some SMVRR items. |
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| Name: | Ray |
| Location: | Elkmont Alabama |
| Homepage: | Trains of the South |
| Date: | 2-May-2002 16:47:14 |
| Message: | Hope to visit your Museum in June ! |
| Name: | John Hind |
| Location: | Kelso Scottish Borders Roxburgh |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 2-Mar-2002 02:27:56 |
| Message: | Like the UK it is sad that railways no longer
exist in large eareas of the country especially
in Scotland where I come from.I came accross
your site looking for Brass Bands in the Sanra
Maria area. I enjoyed my visit. Good luck for
the future
John Hind (The Borderer) |
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| Name: | Catherine Ryan Hyde |
| Location: | Cambria CA USA |
| Homepage: | Catherine Ryan Hyde |
| Date: | 10-Feb-2002 08:49:23 |
| Message: | Reyna Mendez invited me to come look at this
site. She is having fun and is very proud of
all the history she's learning. Thank you,
Reyna! |
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| Name: | Reyna Mendez |
| Location: | santa maria ca usa |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 9-Feb-2002 20:38:36 |
| Message: | cool page Thank you for teaching my Daughter
she is having so much fun! |
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| Name: | Leonard Green |
| Location: | Lompoc CA USA |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 4-Feb-2002 20:32:09 |
| Message: | Trains are my favrite hobby! After looking at the website I'm going to visit the museum as soon as I can. |
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| Name: | Colin and Gabe |
| Location: | santa mqria |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 29-Jan-2002 19:05:57 |
| Message: | |
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| Name: | Julie Vawter |
| Location: | Grover Beach CA San Luis Obispo |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 23-Jan-2002 12:50:45 |
| Message: | |
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| Name: | Elford Wall |
| Location: | Helsinki Finland |
| Homepage: | Elford`s Railroad and Travel Website |
| Date: | 12-Jan-2002 07:23:34 |
| Message: | Enjoyed working with all the great people
on the Santa Maria Valley RR installing crossing
protection back in the `70s. |
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| Name: | Steve Henderson |
| Location: | Nipomo CA USA |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 18-Dec-2001 17:57:08 |
| Message: | Hello |
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| Name: | Judy Van Aken |
| Location: | Las Vegas Nevada USA |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 10-Dec-2001 10:00:30 |
| Message: | |
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| Name: | Jeff Newenhof |
| Location: | Astoria Oregon USA |
| Homepage: | Astoria Railroad Preservation Association |
| Date: | 7-Nov-2001 08:41:29 |
| Message: | The Astoria Railroad Preservation Association is
a non-profit group that is restoring SMV #21,
Captain Hancock's favorite Steam Locomotive. We
hope to have #21 running by 2003. Your website
looks great. |
| Name: | Herbert Goble |
| Location: | Arroyo Grande Ca. USA |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 18-Oct-2001 19:59:25 |
| Message: | |
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| Name: | Richard Jacobs |
| Location: | Orrville Ohio USA |
| Homepage: | www.orrvillerailroad.com |
| Date: | 6-Oct-2001 11:58:47 |
| Message: | Hi!
I visited your engine house in Santa Maria in
1998-99. I have also photographed your train to
Guadalupe. I have enjoyed the times at your
railroad.
I am the editor of the newsletter of the
Orrville Railroad Heritage Society. We run about
6 mainline passenger excursions per year behind
our GP-7u (ex-ConnDOT) locomotive. We also host
2 celebrations at our ex-PRR 1868 vintage depot.
RJ |
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| Name: | Gary D. Van Aken |
| Location: | Santa Maria CA USA |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 3-Oct-2001 20:13:44 |
| Message: | I hope that you have enjoyed viewing all the
material that Jamie has added to the site.
Please return frequently as it will only improve
with new photos and varied subjcets in the
future. |
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| Name: | Russell Hallock |
| Location: | Washingtonville, NY USA |
| Homepage: | |
| Date: | 2-Oct-2001 20:44:02 |
| Message: | I am very pleased to visit your museum website.
Good luck in all future activities! |
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| Name: |
Jamie Foster. |
| Location: | Arroyo Grande CA USA |
| Homepage: | jf2.com |
| Date: | 1-Oct-2001 20:11:49 |
| Message: | Looks like I get to break the ice! Welcome to the
web home of the Santa Maria Valley Railway
Historial Museum (SMVRHM). Tell us your
railroading interests. Ask us questions. Make
comments/suggestions. Enjoy yourself! |
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