William R. Hogarty Memorial Library
One of our Society's goals, that of establishing a museum and archival library, has been realized in our William R. Hogarty Memorial Library. The Library houses over 13,000 catalogued items relating to the Northwestern Pacific Railroad and other Redwood Empire rail lines. Temporarily housed in a secure, temperature controlled building, the Library contains over 3,500 photographs, 1,700 maps, 900 plans, a large reference book library, collections of employee timetables and rosters, as well as many historical documents.
We are actively seeking a permanent home for our Library and Archive.
Currently the Library is only open by special arrangement. To gain access for research purposes contact the NWPRRHS secretary nwprrhs-sec@comcast.net.
Here are a few examples of pictures looked up and printed for members doing specific projects.
Scanned from original photographs from Don Clauder, Healdsburg yard c. 1960.
These are but a very small portion of the pictures available in the Archive.
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Purchase of the Roger Graeber videos, of talks given at Whistlestop North in Santa Rosa, benefit the Library/Archive. Click in the button below for details.
This page was created on November 8, 2000
and last updated on November 14, 2011
