Remarks: With engineer Malen Johnson at the throttle and McCloud owner Jeff Forbis on the rear steps, #38 is being used to switch cars to be used on a scheduled steam locomotive that day. Air brak... (more)
A horizontal view of an earlier posting with the Eastbound Scrap train at Big Canyon on the McCloud Railway with Mt. Shasta looming in the background.
McCloud #38, an SD38, is passing thru Big Canyon with several empty scrap gons which will used to load rail from the dismantling of the McCloud. Owner Jeff Forbis is on the fireman's side of the c... (more)
Led by SD38 #38, what amounts to a funeral train is being made up at Pierce on the McCloud Railway. Tje loaded gons contain some of the rail removed in the past few weeks from the McCloud Railway ... (more)
It is hard to believe that it is already over a year since the McCloud Railway made its last revenue run East of McCloud. June 30th of 2006 marked the end. I chased this freight from McCloud to Bu... (more)
McCould #38 is switching at Cayton, just North of Burney, the loading site for Dicalite. Dicalite was one of the two last customers on the McCloud. In fifty weeks, June 30th 2006, freight service ... (more)
At Curtis, MCR #38 is on the way back to McCloud with loads from both the Sierra Pacific Mill in Burney and from Dicalite at Cayton. Due to track conditions, the run from Burney to McCloud had bec... (more)
On its way back to McCloud from the Sierra Pacific mill in Burney, McCloud 38 is passing the now derelict tower at Bartle. It is August of 2005 and less than a year remains until this part of the ... (more)
McCloud #38 is arriving at Signal Butte Switchback with four loads and over 20 junk boxcars bound for scrapping that had been stored on the remains of the Pondosa Branch.
#38 running light passing the Bartle Tank on its way to Burney. The following day it would bring the last revenue train from Burney.
The last loads out of the Sierra Pacific plant in Burney and the last train out of the Burney Basin.
Mc Cloud Railway #38 still in the boxcar red scheme sits idle.
