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Re: Mc Cloud 25
Author: Jeff Moore
Date: 10-10-2019 - 21:56

Never was a runaround at the switchback. Trains during the steam era typically ran with locomotives at both ends of the train, or they'd shove trains up out of McCloud to the switchback, then the locomotives would lead the rest of the way into Mt. Shasta. Operation would be reversed coming back to McCloud, trains would be shoved up and over the hill and then locomotives would lead back into McCloud. Somewhere in the early to middle 1970s they swapped this procedure, locomotives would lead out of the McCloud to the switchback and then shove up and over the hill, then lead out of Mt. Shasta and enter McCloud caboose first, which did simplify switching at both ends.

That's my understanding of how things worked.

Jeff Moore
Elko, NV

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  Mc Cloud 25 HUTCH 7.62 10-10-2019 - 15:03
  Re: Mc Cloud 25 Jeff Moore 10-10-2019 - 21:04
  Re: Mc Cloud 25 FUD 10-10-2019 - 21:36
  Re: Mc Cloud 25 Jeff Moore 10-10-2019 - 21:56
  Re: Mc Cloud 25 FUD 10-11-2019 - 06:59
  Re: Mc Cloud 25 HUTCH 7.62 10-11-2019 - 10:09
  Re: Mc Cloud 25 trackwalker 10-12-2019 - 06:00
  Re: Mc Cloud 25 Jeff Moore 10-12-2019 - 11:15
  Re: Mc Cloud 25 trackwalker 10-12-2019 - 13:02
  Re: Mc Cloud 25 FUD 10-12-2019 - 14:48
  Re: Mc Cloud 25 Jeff Moore 10-12-2019 - 18:24
  Re: Mc Cloud 25 trackwalker 10-13-2019 - 16:32
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