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Scrapping of McCloud Railway to begin on Monday?
Author: shortline sammie
Date: 07-10-2008 - 07:10

Southwest Railcar is running a speeder excursion this weekend over the McCloud Railway. A statement on the website indicates that "Salvage personel will begin track and tie removal between McCloud and Burney at the rate of 2 1/2 miles per day starting July 14th".

While I hadn't seen anything posted here recently about the McCloud, it doesn't surprise me that the end has finally come. It's pretty hard to justify paying property taxes on a dormant rail line when the blast furnaces have such an appetite for high priced scrap.

This leaves only the line from McCloud to Mt. Shasta which is used by the dinner train remaining from what was a much larger operation. I assume that A&K is the "culprit"; however that is just an assumption.

Kelly and I will be hiraiing with the SWRC group this weekend for one last look.

Shortline Sammie

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Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Scrapping of McCloud Railway to begin on Monday? shortline sammie 07-10-2008 - 07:10
  Re: Scrapping of McCloud Railway to begin on Monday? Treun 07-10-2008 - 13:57
  Re: Scrapping of McCloud Railway to begin on Monday? Stevo del Applegato 07-10-2008 - 16:17
  Re: Scrapping of McCloud Railway to begin on Monday? Mike Swanson 07-14-2008 - 08:21
  Re: Scrapping of McCloud Railway to begin on Monday? M. Harris 07-10-2008 - 13:57
  Re: Scrapping of McCloud Railway to begin on Monday? GNGoat 07-11-2008 - 02:57
  Re: Scrapping of McCloud Railway to begin on Monday? Richard Elgenson 07-11-2008 - 07:42
  Re: Scrapping of McCloud Railway to begin on Monday? Policespeeder 07-11-2008 - 08:08
  Re: Scrapping of McCloud Railway to begin on Monday? GN Goat 07-15-2008 - 02:47
  Re: Scrapping of McCloud Railway to begin on Monday? TVRHA (Ft Worth) 07-14-2008 - 11:07
  Re: Scrapping of McCloud Railway to begin on Monday? shortline sammie 07-15-2008 - 07:23


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