New Speaker for Library Railroad Talk for Saturday Program

In a program tied in with the Santa Clara Valley History Collaborative the will host Randy Hees, curator for Society for the Preservation of Carter Railroad who on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m. will give a talk on trains, railroads and the people and goods they transported.

Hees is a last-minute schedule change to replace Rod Diridon, Sr. who was scheduled to speak but fell ill earlier in the week and had to cancel.

To accompany the “” exhibit on display on the second floor of the library until June, Hees will discuss the Southern Pacific Coast Railroad’s trains that brought goods such as lumber from the Santa Cruz Mountains and fruits and vegetables from the Valley of Hearts Delight to larger cities such as San Francisco and Oakland.

The railroad also transported the people who lived in those communities between one another as it maintained a fleet of passenger cars as well as locomotives, baggage cars, box cars, flat cars and cabooses.

The Society for the Preservation of Carter Railroad Resources is a nonprofit organization that operates the Railroad Museum at Ardenwood Historic Farm Regional Park in Fremont, not far from the original Carter Shops in Newark.

The free program will be held at from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 28.