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Ward Kimball Tomorrow at Grizzly Flats - Part 4

Tom Snyder and his crew are out of the train room and back outside now, moving from model trains to Ward's full-sized ones. Bob Pool of the LA Times: "In the beginning, Kimball's backyard railroad sprouted its tracks almost by accident. Kimball was a lifelong train fan. "On his first date with Betty, he had taken her to a rail yard to measure a box car. He and his new wife purchased 2 1/2 acres of a San Gabriel orange grove and were preparing to build a home in 1937 when he decided to buy a surplus train car to house his growing model train layout. For $50 he bought an abandoned narrow-gauge passenger coach (used on 3-foot-wide track instead of the standard 4-feet, 8 1/2 -inches) that Southern Pacific had operated in the Owens Valley. A year later, he bought a similar-sized 1881 steam engine that was being scrapped by the Nevada Central Railroad. Later, he would also acquire a 1906 box car and caboose, a 1917 gondola and a 1915 stock car, along with a small 1907 switch engine used at a Hawaiian sugar plantation. "The weekend 'steam-ups,' as the Kimballs called them, attracted crowds. Workers and executives from Hollywood film studios often wrangled invitations, as did neighbors." This is the fourth of seven parts.