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McCloud Rails
Photos from the Heritage Junction Museum of McCloud, Inc. Collection Miscellaneous McCloud River Railroad Company Pictures |
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Below are some miscellaneous pictures of the McCloud River Railroad Company. |
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One of the small early prairies switching at a landing. Note the long logs placed
across two of the early short 28-foot flatcars. |
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McCloud River Railroad conductor Joe Bonneville on the 1955 Gold Spike special
excursion to Burney. The man in the white hat is then-Roadmaster Tom Zeigler, and the man in
the glasses to the right is Andrew Linn.
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Locomotive #25 and plow #1767 inside the shop building.
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The smokebox of the #25.
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One of the favored photo spots on the McCloud River Railroad was this long curved trestle a couple
miles east of McCloud. The railroad eventually filled the trestle in, but not before a great many
photographers recorded images on this spot.
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A McCloud-bound log train crossing the trestle.
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The water tank at the upper end of the McCloud yards with one of the mikados in the background.
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One of the railroad's mikados switching carloads of new ties, likely in Pondosa.
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A steel gang taking up a temporary log spur somewhere in the Ash Creek Country.
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Some BIG logs. You don't find many trees like this in the McCloud country any more...
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A caboose trailing a westbound log train heading west from Bartle.
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