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McCloud Rails
Equipment Roster Ballast Cars |
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A lot flat set up with temporary gondola sides for ballast service being loaded at the Porcupine pit. Heritage Junction Museum
of McCloud, Inc.
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The McCloud companies did not own any cars specifically set up for ballast service through the first
several years of operation. The company instead either leased cars from connecting carriers or added
temporary gondola sides to log flats (as seen above) when needed. The railroad did eventually
purchase cars for this service. 1789- Dump car, 20-yard capacity, 36-feet long, wood body, arch bar trucks, purchased 8/1938. Cost $232.80 f.o.b. Mt. Shasta City, plus $31.97 conditioning. Converted to trash car in its later years. Retired 1954. 1791, 1793, 1795, 1797, 1799 - 22-foot, 20-yard steel ballast cars, purchased 9/1939 from Great Northern. Cost $165.33 each, plus $772.50 freight f.o.b. Hambone and $54.15 conditioning. Pressed Steel Car Company built 50 of these cars for the Great Northern and a subsidiary road in 1899, with an additional 450 added in 1900. These earlier cars featured pressed steel shapes; in 1902 Pressed Steel built another 500 or so cars for GN using structural steel shapes. As built, the cars had two knock holes cut into the sides that allowed long poles to be inserted to loosen iron ore loads, or steam pipes in the winter to thaw frozen loads. GN cut three additional knock holes to the cars as an aftermarket addition. A wooden walkway ran the length of the car on the right side only. 1791 ret. 1954; 1794 ret. 1954; 1795 ret. by 1963; 1799 ret. 12/31/1953. 1801, 1803, 1805, 1807, 1809- 22-foot, 20-yard steel ballast cars, purchased 7/1950 from Great Northern. Total purchase and conditioning cost of $3488.76. Same origin and description as #1791-#1799. #1805 ret. 1954. 1808- In 1977, the railroad repainted the then four surviving cars (formerly #1797, #1801, #1803, #1807, and/or #1809 from the two groups above) and renumbered them #1805-#1808 in the process. #1808 originally built in 1902 as GN #75203, then renumbered to GN #80002. The railroad last used the #1808 in ballast service around 1988, with the car used only in photo freights since. Car remains in McCloud pending disposition. 1852- 1852- Western 20-yard air actuated side dump hopper, formerly Bay Point & Clayton Railroad #100, built 1927. Purchased 1955 from A.D. Schader. Cost $864.01. Sold 1992 to McCloud Railway. Stored in McCloud pending disposition. 1859, 1860- 25-yard air actuated side dump hoppers, built 1924. Purchased 8/1956 from Bottsford. Cost $2,056.60. #1859 off property by late 1970s or early 1980s; #1860 sold 1992 to McCloud Railway Company, then re-sold by the fall of 2010 to Virginia & Truckee Railroad, Virginia City, Nevada. 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904- Bottom dump ballast hoppers, purchased from SP at the time of the 1982 track rehabilitation grant. All four received roller bearing trucks salvaged from Itel boxcars scrapped by the railroad circa 1990. Sold 1992 to McCloud Railway Company. Two cars delivered July 2013 to Mt. Shasta City; one car moved to Lake Railroad, while the other remains in Mt. Shasta City; other two stored in McCloud pending disposition. 1910/????- Difco air actuated side dump hoppers, purchased circa 1998 from the U.S. military. Removed from property in the fall of 2011; disposition unknown. |
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