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McCloud Rails : Equipment & Rolling Stock Details
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| Bucker/Flangers |
| The McCloud River Railroad owned a small fleet of small versatile bucker/flanger plows. These cars had a plow blade on each end and a flanger blade located inside the body. The flanger blade had to be raised and lowered by hand, and each was equipped with a doghouse to protect crewmen doing this job. |
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A broadside view of one of these bucker/flangers, courtesy of Heritage Junction Museum of McCloud, Inc. |
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Two of the bucker/flangers, #1787 and #1775, at rest in the McCloud yard in June 1936. Note that the #1775 is stenciled as belonging in Pondosa. Photo from the Travis Berryman collection. |
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Flanger #1787 |
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Flanger #1787 got an extension added to one end to raise the height of the plow blade as seen in this June 1936 photo. Photo from the Travis Berryman collection. |
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#1787 plowing out the McCloud yards. Photograph courtesy of Heritage Junction Museum of McCloud, Inc. |
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The McCloud River Railroad retired the #1787 after the log lines closed. In 1964 the railroad donated the car along with some other equipment to a proposed railroad museum to be located in the mouth of a canyon not far south of Dunsmuir, CA. The museum idea fell apart, and the accumulated equipment went on to become the Railroad Park Resort. Shortly after the park opened a flash flood damaged the flanger. The frame of the flanger is reportedly used today as part of the foundation underneath the kitchen area of the current resort. This clipping is from issue #309 of the Western Railroader, and the bucker/flanger is the third car back in the line. Clipping is from the Glen Comstock collection. |
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