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When the AT&SF Cleburne shops were busy converting F7s into CF7's, somebody from headquarters called up the shop foreman wanting to see wiring schematics for the "new" units...the foreman is said to have fired back "Tell them the drawings are on the outhouse walls...". There are those in the...

Carstens book is a combination of information and scratchbuilding, often both covered in the same feature. Drawings, photos, and written information all included. The Kalmbach book is a little bit more professional looking, but in my opinion the Carstens book is much more valuable to the...

In the spring and early summer of 1992 the McCloud River was handling 15 cars a day of pipe into Burney, CA for use in a Pacific Gas & Electric natural gas pipeline running between Canada and the Bay Area. I have a page on my McCloud Rails webpage that features several photos of McCloud pipe...

The Trains & Locomotives show usually runs videos from the Machines of Iron series...although recently they ran a series of videos from the early 1980's (Charles Smiley, if I remember correctly). Interesting mix of programming on RFD-TV...

Both Carstens and Kalmbach have released books in the past couple years about yards and locomotive servicing facilities. I have seen both of them, and (my opinion only) the Carstens book is a lot better than the Kalmback one. The Carstens book is Locomotive Terminals & Railroad Structures...

I've got some pictures of the locomotive servicing area of the McCloud River/McCloud Railway on my site. Go to this page: http://www.trainweb.org/mccloudrails/AlongTheLine/McCloud.html Click on the "Service Facilities" heading in the left hand column. Shortline in nature, perhaps not...

Owner of that site is a good friend of mine and is a member on this board, under the handle Lassen Logger. I've alerted him to the presence of this thread...perhaps he will jump in as well. Lassen Logger has spent a lot of time researching the logging railroads of the Susanville and Westwood...

Those are container cars, used to transport containers (intermodal). A lot of the earlier models had the bulkheads that you see...most of the more modern ones do not. If you saw an entire train of these with no containers on them, those are known to most railfans as "baretable" trains, which...

Yes, Shamus, lots and lots of photos... Don't hesitate to pick it up... Summit Elko, NV

Just wanted to drop a quick note here...Oso Publishing (outfit that produces Tall Timber Short Lines) released a brand new book on logging railroads about a month ago. It is "Logging Railroads of the Klamath Country" and it covers all of the various logging and lumbering operations that used...

TomPM: You wrote: "what kind of load would a tank car in MOW service carry? Water? Oil?" Simple answer would be both, but the railroad would have different cars for different types of service. Cars in water service could be broken down into two categories: 1. Those carrying potable...

Drew- LassenLogger and I live about 280 miles from each other...we correspond over e-mail quite a bit and get together a couple times a year to switch boxcars... I've got some discussion on my website about the relationship between the McCloud River Lumber Company (and Railroad), the Red...

Grew up in the mountains of Northeastern California, about fifteen miles outside of the timber town of Burney, CA. Became fascinated with the McCloud River Railroad, and got the logging bug while digging into it's history as well as visiting old McCloud log camps and roadbeds. Interests...

Interesting to note that a good deal of that land granted to railroads staid in railroad ownership well into the 1990's. Most of the lands granted to the Oregon & California Railroad (mostly in southeastern Oregon) eventually came back into government hands and are now managed by the Bureau...

Looked at the two sawmill kits, and the Sierra West models is definately more representative of the earlier sawmill design that the BTS version. Michigan-California operated a fairly extensive operation in the Sierras above Placerville, CA. Thunder in the Mountains by Hank Johnson (?) is a...

"One thing I like to mention though about the time period, I looking through the book "Railroads in the Woods" and it has a section called "In the beginning". And this is where they just started using railroads and dolbeer donkeys. And this seems to bee a period of 1880's to 1900. So how can...

Clerk- Car is a former Southern Pacific commute car, built around 1955, and used on the SP's San Franscisco Penninsula commute service between San Jose and San Franscisco (now operated by Caltrain). I do not know how many of these are still in service over the line, if any. An outfit...

In a previous post the CTC Board magazine Northwest Logging Railroad Series was discussed. Here is a list of the issues that the series appeared in. March 1986- Chehalis Western July 1986- Weyerhaeuser Springfield November 1986- St. Maries River February 1987- Canadian Forest Products...

Gary- Happy to help. Let me know what areas you are interested in and I can provide you with a lit of some books that have been published about operations in that area. Always open to answering questions too. -JD Moore Elko, NV

Second the recommendation for Rail Pub. Nice outfit to work with, have never had a problem getting stuff through him. He puts out a new catalogue about every six weeks, in Adobe format, that consitantly (with books, annual reports, etc.) runs 60-80 pages long. Prices are reasonable. JD...