All spiffied up and looking good, with hopes of restoration in the not too distant future. With all the ex-MCRR steamers still around it must have been quite an operation in steam. A great Memb... (more)

Nice color scheme for a logging railroad SD38-2.

McCloud River 19 goes through restoration at the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum in Sugarcreek, Ohio. If you haven't been to this museum, it is well worth the trip.

It's clamming season in Garibaldi as the 12pm Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad train to Rockaway Beach steams past.

Cream and Chocolate

California’s McCloud River Railroad had incentive per diem box cars in a striking, if not unusual, paint scheme. Here one of them pauses in the yard at Allent... (more)

The McCloud River's Hill Job is arriving at the Signal Butte switchback, led by SD38 MR 38. Out of sight around the curve, SD38-2 MR 39 is shoving the rear of the train up the grade. Once the MR... (more)

The McCloud River's Sierra Job has just crossed Lake Britton, and is now crossing CA 89 on the climb away from the lake. It is returning to McCloud after switching out the big Sierra Pacific sawmi... (more)

An excursion on the McCloud River Railroad pauses for a servicing stop at the Bartle tank. Today, the steam locomotive is in Oregon and the railroad is dismantled.

The McCloud River 25 performs a photo runby at Lake Britton on Labor Day Weekend 1982. The bridge and locomotive would be featured a few years later in the film "Stand by Me."

Operating on an excursion for Great Western Tours, McCloud River 25 has stopped at Bartle to take water. Unfortunately, the tank isn't cooperating, and a US Forest Service pumper truck will soon ... (more)

McCloud River 2-6-2 25 leads a caboose hop across Smith Lake.

Pan pan pan

Making the best of the low shutter speeds required on a gloomy day, I took this shot of McCloud River RR 25 on a Lerro Productions photo charter on the Oregon Coast ... (more)

McCloud River Railroad #25 leads a mixed freight over Hathaway Slough during a Lerro Productions charter on the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad.

Crew Portrait: Wheeler, OR - 10-18-18

This photograph features the crews of both the McCloud River Railroad and the Polson Logging Company captured at a meet in Wheeler, OR in the early p... (more)

McCloud River Railroad's 2-6-2 No. 25, a logging locomotive native to Northern California looks right at home deep in the woods of northern Oregon, at the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad. Captured a... (more)