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2 unusual facts about El Portal


Track Bus No. 19

The car sat unused for 32 years before being restored and housed in Modesto then El Portal and in 1997 moved to the Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown California.

Yosemite Valley Railroad

The National Park Service relocated several surviving structures, including the original hand-turned turntable, from Bagby to El Portal.



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Bagby Stationhouse, Water Tanks and Turntable

The structures now located at El Portal were originally built in Bagby, and were moved from that location in 1966 when the townsite was to be inundated by the filling of Lake McClure behind New Exchequer Dam.

Casa Diablo

Casa Diablo, California, a location in the Sierra Nevada near El Portal along the Merced River.

Roger Bean

In 2007, The Marvelous Wonderettes received the Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Musical Intimate Theatre, and played a record-setting 18 months at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, CA.