Tom M Wrote:
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> While driving to Lakeview for the Holiday I came
> across a dumped chip car in the canyon north of
> Alturas. It was on the hillside below the tracks.
> It appeared to have had its side cut off and its
> contents (chips) were on fire/smoldering. Just
> prior to the car there was a sign on 395 warning
> of a controlled burn. The tracks above appeared
> (from my vantage) to be intact--Anyone know what
> and when it happened?

Don't know when this happened, though it sounds very recent.

> Additionally I check out the engine facilities in
> Lakeview. I noticed the locomotive shed was
> "daylighted" and neither end of the pit has doors
> anymore. One of Modoc Northerns GEs was there
> coupled to 700 (GP7 ex weyerhauser owned by the
> county) and a Black GP49(?)

The GE must have been the one that sat at the west end of the Canby siding for years. Frontier brought the GP49 in after they assumed operations of the line.

> No SW1000 was seen--isn't it in Lakeview?

The SW was a Modoc Northern unit and has been in the dead line at Tule Lake since they shut down- hasn't been in Lakeview for several years now...

> Lastly last time through Tule Lake both SD9's were
> still there any rumors of disposistion?

They are currently for sale through one of the big equipment auction/brokerage sites.

Jeff Moore
Elko, NV