Preservation and Survivors
TS interurban car 200 is stored indoors, unrestored at the Western Railway Museum at Rio Vista Jct. WRM volunteers report that restoration of this car is desired, but would be very expensive.
Two of the famous Cornucopia freight cars are preserved at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, along with a former Western Pacific bunk car. This car, TS 0565-H, was used as the depot in Escalon for many years after a fire destroyed the original station.
Caboose 305 is preserved in Modesto and will eventually be placed on the former right of way in the northern section of the city, which has now been turned into a linear park.
Several other pieces of equipment also survive:
- Interurban car 202 is built into part of a barn on private property near Turlock, California.
- Caboose 307 is a private residence in Oakland, California.
- Caboose 308 is privately owned and fully restored in Modesto.
- A boxcar sits in an industrial yard in Beckwourth, California.
- Locomotive 735 has been donated to the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, CA.
- Locomotive 743 is stored out of service in South Dakota.
- Locomotive 745 was derelict for many years in Stockton before being scrapped in early 2008.
- Locomotive 746 is privately owned and derelict in Willits, California.
Only two Tidewater Southern depots survive: the Stockton Hotel in downtown Stockton and the freight depot in Turlock.
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