See Plaster City Narrow Gauge Railroad, California

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Plaster City is a company town with a large gypsum quarry and plant owned by United States Gypsum. The quarry was started in 1920 and was acquired by United States Gypsum in 1945. It is the site of the last industrial narrow gauge railroad in the United States. The 3 ft (914 mm) gauge line runs north to a gypsum quarry and brings gypsum from the quarry to the plant. Plaster City is surrounded by two Off-Highway Vehicle Areas operated by the Bureau of Land Management: Plaster City West Off-Highway Vehicle Area and Plaster City East Off-Highway Vehicle Area. In the 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Ethel Merman's character is seen talking on a pay telephone to her son, saying that she was "in a place called Plaster City." The "Blue Goose" (aka Plaster City Limo) was constructed of two 1953 Chrysler coupes in the mid 1950s, and welded back to back. Each compartment had its own a/c, and the industial-built 160hp engine located in the center compartment had two forward and one reverse speed - at a top speed of 40mph. It rode on 8 rubber tires that included steel flanges to keep it on the narrow gauge track. It stopped bein used once a road was built to the mine. Records show that the car was donated to PSRMA in 1970 but it was scrapped before it could be saved.

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