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Line 1: {{Multiple issues\| {{POV\|date=May 2016}} {{~~ref~~more ~~improve~~citations needed\|date=May 2017}} }} {{Infobox rail \|gauge= {{Track gauge\|ussg\|allk=on}} Line 16 ⟶ 19: \|hq_city=Martell, California }} The '''Amador Central Railroad''' {{reporting mark\|AMC}} iswas a [[standard gauge]] railroad that operated {{convert\|11.8\|mi}} between a connection with the [[Southern Pacific Company]] (SP) at Ione and Martell near the town of [[Jackson, California]]. The carrier served the Sierra Nevada Foothills gold mining communities and hauled lumber products from the [[El Dorado National Forest]]. Amador is the name of the county in which the railroad operated. ==History== Line 38 ⟶ 41: September 13, 1998 Sierra Railroad Transfers ownership of AMC to Sierra Pacific Industries. 1998 Sierra Pacific Industries leases the AMC to Ampine a division of sierra pine, Ampine reopens line and renames AMC the Amador Foothills Railroad June 7, 2004 Last train on the Amador Foothills Railroad operates.<ref>{{cite web\| url=http://cencalrails.railfan.net/ac.html\| title=Ione Branch/Amador Central\| work=Central California Rails\| ~~accessdate~~access-date=2008-07-23}}</ref> November 2011 The Amador Central Railroad was purchased from Sierra Pacific Industries by the Recreational Railroad Coalition Historical Society and the Amador County Historical Society with the intent of saving it for future generations for Historical, educational, and recreational purposes. Line 50 ⟶ 53: An industrial / business park has been laid out in the area just northeast of the Hwy 88 crossing, with underground utilities laid and streets paved, but it remains largely undeveloped. The park is named after the railroad and the streets have related names, such as "Locomotive Lane" and "Boxcar Blvd." October 27, 2010 the Amador Central/Amador Foothills Railroad was officially transferred from Sierra Pacific Industries to both the Amador County Historical Society (ACHS) and Recreational Railroad Coalition Inc. (RRCI) jointly at a ceremony in front of the historic 1877-built Southern Pacific Depot in Ione. The historical society and RRCHS bought the railroad for a stunning one dollar. The groups have met to form a Railroad Management Committee appointing Grant Vogel who was unanimously voted to be the Roadmaster, and Tom Correa will serve as the deputy Roadmaster. Approved to operate by the FRA as a Noninsular Tourist Railway in 2015, the Railway is operating under the Name "Amador Central Railway". Contact may be made by contacting the Owning Partnership (Amador County Historical Society or the Recreational Railroad Coalition & Historical Society. <ref>http://amadorcountyhistoricalsociety.org/ /www.amadorcentralrailroad.com/</ref> Earlier in 2008, the last AMC/AFRR locomotive, #10, was moved down to Ione, CA where it sits today. It is privately owned and is under a storage lease to the city of Ione. ~~==Modeling==~~ Roundhouse models made the first run of the blue and white AMC boxcars. Roundhouse also made a few of the AMC steam locomotives for both HO and N scales. These were followed years later by Athearn Trains, which released a special numbered set of three AMC blue and white boxcars in HO scale. Atlas also made an AMC boxcar, but this was for an east coast route, and not the Amador Central. The other route shares the same call letters as the Amador Central. The Amador County Model Railroad Museum In Pine Grove, CA. models a rough representation of the Amador Central Railroad/Amador Foothills Railroad from Ione to Martel. (and three other railroads, both in Stockton and Sacramento) The Southern Pacific, BNSF, and Amtrak, in HO scale. The AMC/AFRR that is modeled on the upper tracks of the layout is between 1980 to 1997, as this was the best last years of the AMC, it interacted with the Southern Pacific in Inoe, and the Union Pacific in later years. ==References== {{commons category\|Amador Central Railroad}} {{Portal\|Railways}} {{cite book \| author=Fickewirth, Alvin A.\| title=California railroads: an encyclopedia of cable car, common carrier, horsecar, industrial, interurban, logging, monorail, motor road, shortlines, streetcar, switching and terminal railroads in California (1851-1992)\| location=[[San Marino, CA]] \| publisher=[[Golden West Books]]\| year=1992~~\| editor=~~\| isbn=0-87095-106-8}} {{cite book \| author=Stindt, Fred A. \| title=American Shortline Railway Guide\|edition=5th\| publisher=[[Kalmbach Publishing]]\| year=1996\|location=Waukesha, Wisconsin~~\| editor=~~\| isbn=0-89024-290-9}} {{cite book \| author=Walker, Mike\| title=Steam Powered Video's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - California and Nevada\|edition=Post Merger\| publisher=Steam Powered Publishing\| location=Kent, United Kingdom\|year=1997~~\| editor=~~\| isbn=1-874745-08-0}} {{cite web\|url=http://www.trainweb.org/rosters/AMC.html \|title=Amador Central Railroad \|~~accessdate~~access-date=November 4, 2006 ~~\|last= \|first= \|authorlink= \|coauthors= \|date= \|year= \|month=~~ \|work=Western Shortline Rosters \|publisher=Trainweb.org \|~~pages= \|archiveurl~~archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051129162425/http://www.trainweb.org/rosters/AMC.html \|~~archivedate~~archive-date=November 29, 2005 \|~~deadurl~~url-status=~~yes~~dead }} *{{cite web\| url = http://cencalrails.railfan.net/ac.html\| title = Amador Central/Amador Foothills Railroad\| ~~accessdate~~access-date = November 4, 2006\| last = Epling\| first = David~~\| authorlink = \| coauthors =\| date =\| year =\| month =~~\| work =Central California Rails\| publisher = Railfan.net~~\| pages = \| archiveurl = \| archivedate =~~}} {{reflist}} Line 75 ⟶ 73: [[Category:Logging railroads in the United States]] [[Category:Eldorado National Forest]] [[Category:History of the Sierra Nevada (~~U.S.~~United States)]] [[Category:History of Amador County, California]] [[Category:Transportation in Amador County, California]] Line 83 ⟶ 81: [[Category:1997 disestablishments in California]] [[Category:American companies established in 1908]] [[Category:American companies disestablished in 1997]]