Well, since you asked...here is a list. Might make you sorry you asked!

Locomotives

#30- Baldwin S-12. Has not run since it arrived back on the property twenty years ago. Is almost certainly in rough shape.
#36- EMD SD38. Succumbed to electrical problems in 2005 and has been heavily cannibalized for parts since. As of last October, it was to be shipped to Dakota Southern for either parts or rebuild.
#38- EMD SD38. Suffered freeze damage at end of operations in 2010. As of last October, it was to be rebuilt in McCloud before being shipped to Dakota Southern for use there.

Cabooses

#101- Suffered heavy damage in a yard switching accident about 1997. Sold to some people associated with Shasta-Cascade Rail Preservation Society maybe ten years ago and has been awaiting shipment out ever since.
#102- Has been sitting in the yard since operations ended. Has been vandalized.

Passenger Equipment

- Two ex-VIA coaches, used extensively in the excursion program in the last decades. Both became homeless camps while sitting in the Mt. Shasta Yard about five years back and have suffered a lot of vandalism in the yard.
- Three ex-VIA cars, one kitchenette, one baggage/dorm, and one duplex sleeper. Have been sitting in the yard since the middle 1990s. Heavily vandalized.
- Double deck passenger flat, it's been inside the old reload warehouse since operations ceased and thus has been protected, though it needed a lot of work on account of being left outside in the last several years of operations.
- Strawberry Valley, an old Milwaukee Road coach set up with a generator, small gift shop, and lounge area.
- One of the old Pullman heavyweights, set up as a dancing car. Sitting on freight car trucks.
- The old Great Western Railway Museum passenger car collection, consisting of one ex-SP/MR "Harriman" coach, three BNMW heavyweight baggage cars, a BNMW coach, a SP&S baggage car, a SP&S RPO, and a UP coach. All have been in McCloud for years and are in tough shape. Ownership uncertain, but probably rests with the Forbis family.
- One privately owned sleeper, stored in the yard.

Freight Cars

- 17 miscellaneous freight cars, consisting of 2 UP gondolas, one UPFE refer, one MR insulated boxcar, one AARX tank car, one MR and two miscellaneous centerbeams, three ex-Itel incentive per diem boxcars, five UP/SP woodchip hoppers, and one MR bulkhead flat. Most of these are wreck damaged or bad ordered. The bulkhead flat is in the interchange tracks at Mt. Shasta, one gondola and two boxcars are on the stub of the old spur into Cooper's Mill in Mt. Shasta, all the rest are in McCloud.

Work Cars

- Four snowplows, bucker plow #1767 in deteriorating shape (Great Western Railway Museum collection), bucker/flanger derailed near the end of the Signal Butte switchback, and two Jordan spreaders, MR #1850 and an old SP model. Of these, only the #1850 is in decent shape, though its been broken into and the cab door left open to the elements.
- One crane, MR #70.
- One crane tender, the frame and floor of an old incentive per diem boxcar.
- One 8,000 gallon oil tank, sold to Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad with the #25 but still in McCloud awaiting shipment.
- Three ex-SP ballast hoppers, one with some other equipment in McCloud, one positioned like it was the next car to be scrapped in McCloud, and the third in Mt. Shasta City, most likely sold to Lake Railway but not moved by UP.
- One work flat, MR #821.
- Two ex-MP/UP outfit cars.
- One old Bay Point & Clayton side dump, there are some preservation efforts on-going surrounding this car.
- One old Great Northern ore jenny/belly dump ballast hopper.
- One old GN auxiliary water tender, part of Great Western Railroad Museum collection.

I think I got it all. In addition, there are a couple pieces of track equipment, several motor vehicles, and some heavy equipment, only a very few of these are operable and most have been stored for years.

On the whole, most of this equipment is probably worth more dead than alive, and all of it will need moderate to extensive work, but little of it is beyond salvage.

As for hope...maybe. The Williams Group bought the property primarily with commercial car repair and storage in mind, they have not yet completely given up on that. A group of local investors are trying to get some commercial enterprise going on the old McCloud sawmill site, they'd love to have rail service. The problem with any of these is that the property requires extensive rebuilding and rehabilitation before it can be used again, that money has to be allocated by someone, and so far it has not been forthcoming. So things wait, mostly in suspended animation...

Jeff Moore
Elko, NV