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McCloud Rails : The Last Two Weeks? Page 8 |
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Arriving at Signal Butte. Drew Jacksich photo, used with permission. |
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The string of boxcars at Signal Butte. Drew Jacksich photo, used with permission. |
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After clearing the switch the #38 starts the job of pushing the cars towards the summit. Drew Jacksich photo, used with permission. |
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The #38 has arrived at Pierce and has placed the boxcars in the siding. Drew Jacksich photo, used with permission. |
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The #38 leaving Pierce and heading for Lorenz. Drew Jacksich photo, used with permissio. |
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The #38 passing the Bartle Tank. Drew Jacksich photo, used with permission. |
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Friday, 30 June |
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The day for the train crew started once again with a ride in a pickup from McCloud to the Lorenz Crossing, where the #38 had been left the night before. The first part of the day involved shoving the #821 flat on to Berry, where it could be placed out of the way. Then the crew ran down the Sierra branch, where Sierra Pacific Industries had loaded five of the seven cars left on Tuesday. SPI informed the train crew that with the $1,000 per carload surcharge going into effect within 12 hours they would not be loading the two extra cars, and the #38 departed the mill with five loads and two empties. The train crew picked up the #821 flat and then ran to Cayton, where Dicalite still had four empty covered hoppers on spot. Dicalite too had instructed the railroad to take the cars away, as they would not be loading them either. The #38 paused at Cayton long enough to grap the four empty hoppers before heading back to McCloud. |
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The #38 has coupled onto the #821 flat and is shoving it across Highway 89 at Lorenz. Drew Jacksich photo, used with permission. |
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Does it all come down to this? #38 leading the five cars that Sierra Pacific did load plus the two they did not through the Fountain Fire area a little over two miles away from the mill. Drew Jacksich photo, used with permission. |
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Topping out of the Million Dollar Cut and starting out on the flat trackage to Berry. Drew Jacksich photo, used with permission. |
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The train has picked up the #821 flat and is now running alongside the Berry siding. Drew Jacksich photo, used with permission. |
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What could be the final train crossing the Lake Britton bridge. Drew Jacksich photo, used with permission. |
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Picking up the four empty covered hoppers at Cayton. Drew Jacksich photo, used with permission. |
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