MOTORCAR  OPERATORS  WEST

EXCURSION  ANNOUNCEMENT

&  2006  ANNUAL MEETING

CALIFORNIA  WESTERN  “SKUNK”  RAILROAD

NORTHWESTERN  PACIFIC  RAILROAD

WHAT BETTER WAY TO CELEBRATE THE ARRIVAL

OF THE NEW YEAR THAN TWO DAYS ON THE

CALIFORNIA WESTERN RAILROAD AND THE

NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD,

TRAVERSING MAJESTIC MOUNTAIN PASSES, EXPERIENCING

THE ENCHANTMENT OF THE REDWOOD FOREST,

VISITING WITH FRIENDS AT THE MOW ANNUAL MEETING AND A

NEW YEARS CELEBRATION AT RANCHO BALDO IN COVELO

Thursday, December 28, 2006  Set On 3-6 PM, California Western Railroad 

              Depot, E. Commercial Street,  Willits, CA. Overnight in Willits. 

Friday, December 29, 2006  CALIFORNIA WESTERN “SKUNK” RAILROAD.   

              Willits – Fort Bragg – Willits.  Overnight in Willits.

Saturday, December 30, 2006  NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. Willits –  

              Redwood Valley - Willits.  

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MOW 2006 Annual Meeting, 3 PM. Saturday, December 30, 2006

Roots of Motive Power-Redwood Empire Railroad History Project Engine House, 400 E. Commercial Street., Willits, California. Show your support for the Board of Directors and others working so hard to make the hobby enjoyable, along with an exclusive opportunity to tour the extraordinary collection of railroad equipment  and other steam logging artifacts.

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Sunday, December 31, 2006    MOW New Years Party, Rancho Baldo, Covelo.            

            Everyone invited but entirely optional.  Contact Bobbie Yokum (707) 459-

            4350, or Janet Dominguez  (916) 965-3949 for additional information. 

Sunday, January 1, 2007     New Years Day.  Enjoy a relaxed and scenic drive home 

            after a wonderful breakfast cooked on the wood stove at the cabin. 

All participants are invited to attend the annual MOW New Years Party on Sunday,  December 31^st at Rancho Baldo, high in the mountains above Covelo.   Lodging, not altogether extravagant, is available in the cabin at Rancho Baldo. A BBQ main course for dinner will be provided.  Space is also available to park mobile homes and camp trailers. You can leave your motorcar in a locked yard at Willits Redwood Co. until Monday, Jan. 1st.

Send check for $100. (payable to MOW), a SASE, and all your MOW and NARCOA numbers to:

Chris Baldo, Meet Coordinator

P.O. Box 874

Willits California  95490

Questions to:  wlltsrwd@sonic.net,  (707) 459-4549 wk,  (707) 459-2600 home

Note:  This cost does not include lodging. It is the responsibility of each participant to make their own motel reservations in Willits.  

Lodging

 Willits

Baechtel Creek Inn            (707) 459-9063

Best Western Willits Inn   (707) 459-5800

Holiday Lodge                    (707) 459-5361

Old West Inn                      (707) 459-4201

Pine Cone Motel                 (707) 459-5044

Super 8 Willits                    (707) 459-3388

Western Village Inn           (707) 459-4011

MOTORCAR OPERATORS WEST

Eleventh Annual

PACIFIC NORTHWEST TOUR

2007

June 16 – July 3, 2007

(updated 12/19/2006)

Four states and a Canadian Province

Hello everyone - here (finally) are the plans for Motorcar Operators

West- Pacific Northwest Tour 2007. We hope you will join us once again.

This outline will appear on the MOW and NARCOA websites in the near future but meanwhile you are also welcome to share it with speeder-friends you hope to have join you on this run.

You'll note that our final railroad - the Modoc Northern - will be entertaining us for the first time. On a space available basis, it will be opened to those who can not attend the rest of the PNWT. Priority, as always, will be given to those who are registering for the complete tour.

Modoc Northern will not entertain children (under 18) or dogs. While we have had no children in recent years, we certainly have enjoyed the company of some well-behaved canine guests. We will be working to find a solution for our canine guests (and any children you are unable to disguise as a husband.)

Note that postmarks should be after Jan.10th.

Wishing you a healthy and happy holiday season and may your head be filled with visions of speeders on the rails of the Pacific Northwest.

Marg Hope

Director, Motorcar Operators West

Meet Co-Coordinator

Pacific Northwest Tour 2007

mhope@lionsgate.ca

(604) 320-7613

     After last year’s marathon PNW Tour, this year will feel like a leisurely romp through four states in the Pacific Northwest with a quick pass (or maybe two) into Canada.  Along the way we’ll travel on several sections of virgin rail (never before open to railcars) as well as revisiting some of our favorite PNW Tour railroads.  Once again, we’ll cross state lines and an international border in our railcars. We’ll spend thirteen days on the rails and travel approximately 1200 miles.  Our appreciation of the Pacific Northwest goes beyond the magical railroads over which we have traveled to the local communities and people that have given us such support. We will pause for our annual charity auction at Hooper, WA (last year we raised $5000 Canadian for 5 historical and rail related charities) and for the first time provide a day of service in this tiny rural community on the McGregor Ranch.  Come to renew acquaintances, meet new participants, share your enthusiasm with first-timers and curious locals – or simply come to see some magnificent parts of the Pacific Northwest.  Don’t miss MOW’s Pacific Northwest Tour 2007, and discover the magic that has spawned a motorcar tradition that continues for its eleventh consecutive year. 

     We rendezvous and set on the former Union Pacific track for two days on the Palouse River Railroad (PR&CC) using the McGregor ranch at Hooper, WA as our base of operations.  We then travel through Lewiston, ID to our set-on, currently planned for North Lapwai.  There we’ll take two days to enjoy the spectacular “railway on stilts” (2^nd Sub) and the route to Kooskia along the Clearwater River, both now operated by Bountiful Grain & Craig Mountain Railroad (BG&CM.)  From there we’ll head north to the small community of Kettle Falls, WA for our second visit to the (former BNSF) Kettle Falls International Railway (KFR.)  Our travel through border country includes one crossing into Canada and delightful isolated runs along the Kettle and Columbia Rivers.  KFR has offered us the opportunity to run southeast to Chewelah this year – another first for a railcar group.  We continue westward to Okanagan, WA where, after an absence of three years, we look forward to renewing our friendship with General Manager, Buck Workman and three days of operation on the Cascade & Columbia River Railroad (CSCD.)   We conclude our tour with more “new-to-railcars” rail as we set on near Klamath Falls, OR to operate on the Modoc Northern Railroad.  (MNR)  Our route will follow the Modoc Subdivision of Southern Pacific’s famed “Modoc Line” to Alturas, CA, then north on the former SP Lakeview Branch to Lakeview, OR.  It’s not very often that motorcars have the opportunity to thunder across a diamond crossing with the busy BNSF. When we return to Klamath Falls you’ll have the option of heading home or visiting nearby Train Mountain – the largest hobby railroad (7.5” rail) in the world.  www.trainmountain.com

MEET  COORDINATORS

Chris Baldo

Margaret Hope

Estimated Cost- $1550.   Participants pay the cost of all lodging and all meals, and make their own reservations for lodging.  Recommendations for lodging and additional information will be sent by e-mail (or mail) after receipt of your deposit check.   We will notify you of final cost and balance due.  Final Payment due April 1, 2007.

Deposit Due with Registration - $450.00.  Non-refundable after April 1, 2007.  We will refund money from any cancellations after that date only if we can fill your spot.  Note: we will deposit all checks upon receipt.   

Please, No Postmarks before Wednesday, January 10, 2007.  

To reserve your spot on the MOW PNW Tour 2007, please send your $450.00 check payable to Motorcar Operators West, enclose your mailing address, phone numbers, e-mail address, NARCOA, MOW and Insurance numbers.  (If you do not have e-mail enclose a LSASE with 60 cents postage) to:

 

Chris Baldo, Co-Meet Coordinator

MOW Pacific Northwest Tour 2007

P.O. Box 874

Willits, CA 95490

Car Limit – 25 cars.  Priority will be given to those making the entire Tour. Don’t give up hope; last year everyone on the waiting list eventually went on the trip. We do plan to open up the Modoc Northern portion of the Tour to all MOW members as a separate run. Details and pricing for the separate run will be forthcoming.  

The enclosed Tentative Itinerary best represents our plans for the PNW Tour to date.   If we are forced to cancel any railroad on the proposed Tour, we will substitute another railroad to fill the time frame in the itinerary.

This event is sponsored by Motorcar Operators West.  All participants must have a 2007 MOW membership and license number, as well as satisfying all NARCOA membership, insurance and rulebook requirements.

If you have any questions please contact the Meet Coordinators:

Chris Baldo    (707) 459-4549  wk,  (707) 459-2600 hm,  wlltsrwd@sonic.net

Margaret Hope          (604) 320-7613  wk    mhope@lionsgate.ca

MOTORCAR OPERATORS WEST

Pacific Northwest Tour 2007 

TENTATIVE ITINERARY

Saturday, June 16, 2007        MOW Rendezvous and Work Party, Hooper, WA.  Enjoy a day of work and socializing on the historic McGregor Ranch. We will help our host, Sharon Hannas, on a variety of restoration projects, including painting the Hooper Hotel.  Overnight in Hooper or Washtucna.

Sunday, June 17, 2007           Rendezvous and Work Day Continues.
Set On and Car Inspections 3 PM. Hooper, WA. PALOUSE RIVER RAILROAD.  Overnight in Hooper or Washtucna

Monday, June 18, 2007         PALOUSE RIVER RAILROAD. Hooper - Winona - Thornton - Winona - Colfax.  113 miles. Overnight in *Colfax.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007         PALOUSE RIVER RAILROAD,  Colfax - Winona - Hooper. 51 miles.  Travel to Lewiston, ID. Overnight in Lewiston.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007    BOUNTIFUL GRAIN & CRAIG MOUNTAIN RAILROAD. (Camas Prairie Railroad, 2^nd Sub) North Lapwai, ID. Set On  6:30 - 8 AM.  North Lapwai – Lawyers Canyon – North Lapwai. 80 miles.     Overnight in Lewiston.

Thursday, June 21, 2007       BOUNTIFUL GRAIN & CRAIG MOUNTAIN RAILROAD. (Camas Prairie, 1st Sub)  North Lapwai - Kamiah – North Lapwai. 130 miles. Overnight in Lewiston or on the road.

Friday, June 22, 2007            Travel Day to Kettle Falls, WA.
Set On 3 PM  KETTLE FALLS INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY. Kettle Falls, WA.  Overnight in Kettle Falls, WA.

Saturday, June 23, 2007        KETTLE FALLS INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY.  Kettle Falls - Waneta - Kettle Falls.  89 miles.  Overnight in Kettle Falls, WA.

Sunday, June 24, 2007           KETTLE FALLS INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY, Kettle Falls - Chewelah - Kettle Falls. 63 miles.  Overnight in Kettle Falls, WA.

Monday, June 25, 2007         KETTLE FALLS INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY.  Kettle Falls - Grand Forks - Kettle Falls.  94 miles. Overnight in Kettle Falls, WA.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007         Travel Day to Okanagan, WA.    Set On 3 PM, CASCADE & COLUMBIA RIVER RAILROAD. Okanagan, WA. Overnight in Okanagan or Omak.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007    CASCADE & COLUMBIA RIVER RAILROAD.  Okangan - Oroville - Okanagan.   Overnight in Okanagan or Omak.  83 miles.

Thursday, June 28, 2007       CASCADE & COLUMBIA RIVER RAILROAD.  Okanagan - Wenatchee. Overnight in *Wenatchee. 95.7 miles.

Friday, June 29, 2007            CASCADE & COLUMBIA RIVER RAILROAD. Wenatchee - - Okanagan.   95.7 miles.  Begin travel south to Klamath Falls, OR.
Overnight on the road.

Saturday, June 30, 2007        Travel Day, Klamath Falls, OR
Set On 3 PM, MODOC NORTHERN RAILROAD. Klamath Falls, OR. Overnight in Klamath Falls, OR.

Sunday, July 1, 2007             MODOC NORTHERN RAILROAD.  Klamath Falls, OR - Alturas, CA.  107 miles. Overnight in *Alturas, CA.

Monday, July 2, 2007           MODOC NORTHERN RAILROAD.   Alturas, CA - Lakeview, OR - Alturas, CA.  112 miles.  Overnight in *Alturas.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007           MODOC NORTHERN RAILROAD.  Alturas, CA – Klamath Falls, OR.  107 miles.

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PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING

Accommodation:

-          We will be away from our road vehicles for a total of 4 nights – bus transfer is provided as needed but you will need to arrange accommodation. An accommodation guide will be provided after registration.  The * before a town’s name indicates a night we will be away from our road vehicles.

Seatbelts

-          Strongly recommended.  As they were last year, seatbelts may be required by one or more of our railroads.  Winter is a good time to equip your car with seatbelts securely attached to the frame of your motorcar.