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Re: Quincy RR
Author: Jeff Moore
Date: 01-06-2010 - 20:43

The ex-SP #1100 was the original locomotive Quincy used on the line. After the Amador Central closed (1997?) Sierra Pacific brought their two EMD switchers north...I want to say the SW-1200 went to the Quincy division, while the SW-7 joined the #1100 in Susanville.

SPI's Susanville mill was one of their last large log only mills, which essentially doomed it.

If I'm remembering things correctly, and let me know if I am not, SP actually obtained permission to abandon the line back around 1985. SPI stepped in and leased the line to preserve service to their mill and ran the operation as a private carrier. Thus, when SPI closed the mill there was not a formal abandonment process, and UP was able to salvage the line. I remember this became an issue of some sort as somebody tried to step in and preserve the grade as a trail, only to find out they were two decades too late to get what they asked for.

Jeff Moore
Elko, NV

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  Quincy RR jesse 01-06-2010 - 11:56
  Re: Quincy RR Drew Jacksich 01-06-2010 - 12:08
  Re: Quincy RR OPRRMS 01-06-2010 - 13:46
  Re: Quincy RR jesse 01-06-2010 - 20:40
  Re: Quincy RR OPRRMS 01-07-2010 - 12:03
  Re: Quincy RR Dave Dodds aka WP805A 01-06-2010 - 18:19
  Re: Quincy RR Mongo 01-06-2010 - 18:47
  Re: Quincy RR Jeff Moore 01-06-2010 - 20:43
  Hey Dodds Toader 01-07-2010 - 12:59
  Re: Hey Dodds George Andrews 01-07-2010 - 13:14
  Re: Hey Dodds Drew Jacksich 01-07-2010 - 14:28
  Re: Hey Dodds get your facts right! 1stcajon 01-07-2010 - 16:26


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