Alton & Pacific Railroad

The Alton & Pacific Railroad was gauge tourist railroad at Alton, California, that ran from 1969 until 1989.

History

In 1966, Frank Bayliss purchased the site of a burned out lumber mill near Alton. He spent three years clearing the site and laying narrow gauge track. The railroad included a roundhouse, a turntable and a water tank.
In 1968, Bayliss acquired a 1935 Orenstein & Koppel steam locomotive. It had been taken to the US from Germany after World War II. He made some cosmetic changes to the locomotive and added a home-built tender.
The railroad opened on 4 July 1969.
After the railroad shut down in 1989, Bayliss sold the railroad to an entrepreneur who planned to use the equipment at an island resort he wanted to create in the South Pacific. In 2007, Peter Nott acquired the two locomotives for the Bitter Creek Western Railroad. They then moved to his private Norgrove Railway in Arroyo Grande CA.

Rolling stock

Number	Builder	Type	Works number	Date	Notes
5	Orenstein & Koppel		12676	1935	Fired on local wood
	Fowler		9460	1903	Built for Colonial Sugar Refining Co, Lautoka Fiji. This locomotive was apparently never operated on the A&P
	Plymouth	8-ton diesel			Acquired in 1972 from a clay pit in Lincoln, Nebraska

Bayliss built two yellow 4 wheel passenger cars: an observation car and a combine. There were also a couple of flat cars.