Whistling Billy Adventure
Sat, Feb 28
|Manteca
Join us as we explore historic locals off the beaten path through Mariposa and Stanislaus counties.
Time & Location
Feb 28, 2026, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Manteca, 1356 Bass Pro Dr Manteca,CA 95337
About the event
Embark on a truly unique and captivating adventure as we ride through the picturesque and historically rich sites of Mariposa, and Stanislaus counties. Our journey will take us through a landscape that holds the echoes of the California Gold Rush, weaving through the stories of Dog Town, Coulterville, French Bar, and La Grange.
Whistling Billy was a small steam locomotive used in a gold-mining area in Coulterville, California in the late 1800s.
It wasn’t a big train engine. It was a little industrial steam engine built by the H.K. Porter Company around 1897. Its job was to haul gold ore from a mine to a stamp mill a few miles away on a narrow-gauge track.
People called it Whistling Billy because the engineer apparently blew the whistle a lot while running it.
The locomotive only worked for a few years. By the early 1900s, the mining operation shut down and…
Tickets
Whistling Billy Adventure
$125.00
+$3.13 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00