McCloud River Railroad #25 on the Oregon Coast - Trainorders.com
Last weekend Oct 4-5-6 the Oregon Coast Scenic Railway steamed up McCloud River Railway #25 to power their Fall Splendor Excursions. An added bonus on Sat Oct 4 was an extra trip billed as their first ever Octoberfest train that ran at sunset from Garibaldi to Wheeler and return. Accordion music and two drinks were included in the fare.
McCloud River Railroad - Location Needed - Trainorders.com
Date: 02/20/23 18:13. McCloud River Railroad - Location Needed. Author: rattenne. In reviewing the latest slide box from Jim Lekas I ran across this little gem of McCloud 38 and train. Aside from a slide mount date stamp of 09-1980, there is no other info (including the photographer).Does anyone recognize this trestle location? Thanks in advance.
McCloud River Gold Spike- 68 Years Ago Today - Trainorders.com
Sixty eight years ago today- 3 July 1955- the McCloud River Railroad and the citizens of Burney, California, hosted a grand Golden Spike festival marking the completion of the railroad's new extension to the small mountain community. Burney had been on the route of several projected railroads through time, none of which came close to ever being ...
McCloud #25 is Back! One last time-Bittersweet Memories
My understanding, and this is strictly my understanding of events as they have been relayed to me, is that the first two "sales" of the #25 (McCloud River Railroad to Great Western Railroad Museum in 1986/1987 and then Great Western Railroad Museum to McCloud Railway Company in 1994/1995) were more "litigation settlements" than anything else.
McCloud Monday- The #25 Story - Trainorders.com
The McCloud River Railroad mainline wandered 16.85 miles from the Southern Pacific connection in Mt. Shasta City to McCloud, site of the lumber company's giant sawmills, then 18 miles east to the small ranching community of Bartle, and then north to the end of the common carrier trackage at Milepost 47, home to a water tower and little else.
Nostalgia & History > McCloud River Railroad's SD38-2's
Between April 1988 and May 1989, a power short Union Pacific leased two SD38-2 units from McCloud River Railroad. The SD38 units were assigned to work the "Provo Local" train, symbol LUF51, between Salt Lake City's North Yard and Provo, Utah. This included switching the large mill at Gene
Western Railroad Discussion > McCloud River RR - Trainorders.com
The thousands of McCloud River boxcars were sold to GE Capital in 1992, shortly before the sale of the railroad. McCloud remained home base for some of the cars until about 1996. The shop building in McCloud was dedicated to company work (primarily creating the dinner train and restoration of the two steam locomotives).
Nostalgia & History > A McCloud River boxcar - Trainorders.com
Re: A McCloud River boxcar. Author: JDLX. Great photo! Car was only about six months old at that point, as FMC built McCloud's original group of 400 cars in May and June 1977. This car would only spend about three years looking like this, as on 28 August 1980 it would be one of 100 boxcars McCloud subleased to the Sierra Railroad.
McCloud River #22, Cradle to Grave - Trainorders.com
The McCloud River Railroad #22 was the first of the four; it and its twin #23 had the same overall specifications as the Baldwins purchased the prior year except that they weighed in at 130,000 lbs. and cost $18,450 each, plus $1,854.62 freight and $185.53 break-in.
McCloud - 'You ought to ride along!' - Trainorders.com
My wife & I found the campground at Algoma in the mid-70s and the McCloud River Railroad. The campsite was something else and I still get shivers remembering waking one morning, while camped on the river, to the sound of MCRRR whistling for Sheep Heaven Road - those Leslies were beautiful, especially through the trees.