Snap Shots of YV Employees
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Merced County Historical Society, Courthouse Museum Charles Herbert Wright (General Agent) and Frank L. Higgins (Supt. Motive Power) in front of Yosemite Falls
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Photo: Courtesy Merced County
Historical Society - Courthouse Museum
Charles H. Grant, an early
locomotive engineer for the YVRR.
He delivered number 21 to Merced,
liked what he saw and stayed to
work for the YVRR. He was the only person to have a YV locomotive named in is honor.
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Merced County Historical Society, Courthouse Museum
Charlie Grant and Machinist Jack Scullen.
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Mr. Ed Roduner(1913) YVRR employee at Merced Falls and Merced
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Photo Courtesy: Vince Robinson
Mr. Clarence Robinson, Bagby Agent 1918-1920
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Gerald Williams Collection
L to R: Jim Hill, Guy Clements, George Yoakum, George McCart, and Melvin Williams.
Perhaps at Incline, #26 with her Crew, dated 1926.
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John Lytle Collection
L to R: William White - General Manager, F. L. Higgins - Master Mechanic / Supt. Motive Power, Grant Nickerson - Chief Engineer, W. A. Rabbett - Auditor, and J. L. Morse - Trainmaster
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Photo:
Fred Stoes; L.A.Foster Collection; Courtesy of Donald Foster
Number 28 with its crew: R. F. "Bob" Jirsa (Brakeman),
H. C. Loggins (Brakeman), Guy Clemens (Conductor),
P. J. "Jack" Shoup (Engineer) and Melvin Williams (Fireman).
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Merced County Historical Society, Courthouse Museum.
Shop crew with newly overhauled number 26 resting on the turntable.
The men are identified, from left to right: Kenneth Monson in the gangway,
Jay Swinefort in cab, Melvin Tibbets standing on running board, seated on the pilot Jim Leonard
and Henry Dudot ; Standing:
William L. White (General Manager) and Henry B. Wood (Master Mechanic);
Seated on the turn table:
George Hanna,
Alfred Sheldon,
unidentified,
Babe Spelling,
Jim Halstead,
R. D. Dalziel, unidentified,unidentified, William
Staple, Harry Elsworth, Bill Twaddle, unidentified, Charles Reno, Charles
Rademan, unidentified, unidentified, Tom Cooper, unidentified, Arnold
Baxter, Virgil Boyer, George McCart, Jess Lewis, Erwin Yates, and Charles
McCully. - Dated 1939
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Photo: Lee Foster Collection; Courtesy of Donald Foster
Gentleman at left is William de St. Joer, at right is William L. White,
General Manager of YVRy. Picture snapped at Barrett Station. The young man in center is unknown.
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