McCloud Rails All time Caboose and Coach Roster Below is a roster of all coaches and cabooses owned by the McCloud River Railroad, as compiled by the late Ray Piltz and provided to McCloud Rails by Dennis Sullivan. Underlined numbers are links to a page of photos about that car; numbers that have a star next to them indicate that the car still exists. Passenger equipment purchased by the McCloud Railway Company is not included in this list. Please see the Passenger Equipment section of the "Current McCloud Railway Roster" section of the Equipment roster main page for description and photos of those cars. Cabooses inherited by the McCloud Railway from the McCloud River Railroad are included on this list.
Car Number	Description
*01	Combination coach/baggage car, built in 1889 by J. Hammond & Company, San Francisco, CA. Oak construction. Had round top doors on each end of car. Seats were of bamboo strips cemented to canvas. Quite comfortable. Originally equipped for steam heat. Re-classified to maintenance-of-way work in the late 1930's. Donated 1964 to a railroad museum to be located at Dunsmuir. Currently part of the restaurant at Railroad Park Resort, just south of Dunsmuir.
02	Combination coach, built around 1900. Had open platforms, was equipped for steam heat, and was divided into two compartments (one for smokers, one for non-smokers). Was equipped with double windows with leaded glass overhead trim. Removed from trucks, with the body becoming the dwelling for the carman assigned to the mill pond r.i.p. (repair in place) track. Burned around 1952 to make room for new log pond.
02	Historic photos also show an early 4-wheel caboose carrying the number 02.
03	Built in 1902 by the McCloud car shop as an arch roof combine. Car received a cupola around 1932. Scrapped.
05	4-wheel caboose, built in the McCloud car shop around 1910. Remained intact in the McCloud yard long after replaced by newer cabooses, and its body was later placed on the frame of wreck-damaged caboose #025 (see below).
07	8-wheel caboose, built in the McCloud car shop around 1910. Car was built with rounded sliding doors in the sides to allow for the loading and unloading of freight. Was also the only caboose to carry a name, the Shasta. Approximately 1925 the body was removed from the trucks and placed on the ground at Bartle, where it was used as a wood shed for many years until burned.
09	4-wheel caboose, built in the McCloud car shop around 1910. Scrapped by early 1920's.
011	4-wheel caboose, built in the McCloud car shop around 1910. Scrapped by mid-1930's.
*015	8-wheel caboose built in McCloud car shop in 1915 to early Southern Pacific standard caboose plans. Was equipped with a side door to allow for loading and unloading of freight. Cupola had indicators same as found on SP cabooses, and cabinet arrangement under the cupola was identical to SP cabooses. The #015 was displayed at the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco along with locomotive #18, two loads of logs, and one load of lumber. Sometime in the early 1920's the body was removed from the trucks and placed on the ground at Hambone, where it became a bath house. Body was burned when the bypass around the original site of Hambone was completed in the early 1950's.
017	8-wheel caboose, built in the McCloud car shop around 1916. Was equipped with sliding side doors and a cupola, but the roof did not extend out over the platforms, leaving both open. Was used primarily as a work caboose, mostly by the steel gang (track laying and removal crews) in the woods. Saw only limited use as a road caboose. Caboose was involved in a derailment at Young's Spur (between Hambone and Car A). Car was pushed out of the way and burned.
019	An early Union Pacific CA-class caboose built by or for U.P. around 1910. Had sliding side doors cut into the carbody. The caboose was used primarily by the lumber company logging crews at White Horse. Car rode on the standard U.P. equalized caboose trucks of the era and gave a very comfortable ride. Was also equipped with indicators on the cupola. Scrapped at McCloud.
*021	Built in the McCloud car shop in 1938. Was identical to the #019 above, but did not have indicators on the cupola. Car was bad ordered at Milpost GN 21.5, at the foot of Lava Hill and was retired. Car sold to the owner of Hawkey Trucking Company, Anderson, CA, and moved to their yard. Car became derelict over the years and was recently donated to the Shasta-Cascade Railroad Preservation Association, who is deciding what to do with it.
*023	The first of the ex-Great Northern 25-foot wood cabooses on the property. Was ex-GN #X344, purchased sometime around 1938-1940. Carbody as originally built, with a steel centersill and archbar trucks. Cupola side windows enlarged at McCloud. Cupola sat 5 or 6 inches higher than the rest of the following ex-GN cabooses. Car was bad ordered at Milepost 31.5 (just west of Hambone). Car was initially sold to a group of railfans in the Bay Area, and eventually became property of the Western Railway Museum at Rio Vista Junction, CA, where it remains on display today.
*025	ex-GN 25-foot wooden caboose, formerly GN #X-378. After a few years of service a sliding door was cut into the sides of the car. A year or two later the body was badly damaged in a rear-end collision at Car A. The body from 4-wheel caboose #05 (see above) was then mounted on the frame, and the resulting car was used for several years by lumber company railroad crews working out of Pondosa until the old body from the #05 was found to be unsafe for futher use. A new half-body was then constructed in the McCloud car shops and mounted on the frame, with a large toolbox installed on the half open end of the car. Sold to Yreka Western Railroad, where it remains today.
027	ex-GN 25-foot wood caboose. Scrapped at McCloud.
*029	ex-GN 25-foot wood caboose, was ex-GN #X433. First of the ex-GN cars to be re-built by that road before coming to McCloud, but was still riding on the old archbar trucks with outside hung brake beams and a wooden peaked roof. This car was bought specifically for Phil Myers, President of the railroad, for his use as an inspection car, but did not last long in that service before becoming a regular road caboose. Car was bad ordered at Obie and retired. Car was then placed near the end of the remnant of Chippy Spur, where it saw use for several years as a hunting lodge, primarily by railroad employees. When vandalism started to affect the car it was sold to Bob Ferraris, the railroad's auditor. Mr. Ferraris hired some of the guys from the shop crew, and they spent some time greasing the car, testing the brake system, and getting it ready to move. Once it was ready to go the railroad's CAT 966 loader was brought down from the ballast pit at Porcupine to pull the car out to the mainline, where it was picked up by a regular freight returning from Lookout. Car was taken to the equipment storage yard just east of McCloud, where it was removed from the rails and trucked to the entrance of the Squaw Valley Trailer Court in McCloud, which was owned by Mr. Ferraris at the time. Mr. Ferraris gave the car a complete cosmetic restoration, including replacing the siding. Car remains on display at the entrance to the trailer park today.
*031	ex-GN 25-foot wood caboose, formerly GN #X-472. Came from GN with a tarred canvas roof, cast steel trucks, and AB brakes. Donated 1964 to a proposed railroad museum to be located near Dunsmuir, CA. Collection assembled for the museum eventually ended up in the hands of the Railroad Park Resort. The #031 is currently houses the bathroom facilities of the restaurant in the resort.
033	ex-GN 25-foot wood caboose. Same description as the #031. Was used for a number of years until it got away from a crew switching in the McCloud yards, along with four loads of lumber. The resulting five car runaway made it through downtown McCloud and onto the stub track to the south of town that ran to a propane dealer. The cars derailed before reaching the propane dealer, and the caboose was destroyed in the resulting wreck. Scrapped.
*034	ex-GN 25-foot wood caboose, was GN #X746. Same description as above. Was the first even-numbered caboose on the property. Caboose was retired around 1964 and sold to Jim Nile of Mt. Shasta City for $25, which included delivery to any point on railroad. Car was moved to a location about one mile from the tracks near Milepost 10 on the Mt. Shasta City line, where it was used as a cabin. Car sold to Great Western Railroad Museum in 1983; to Shasta-Cascade Rail Preservation Society circa 2003; to Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture by early 2007. Moved to BBCRC land near Black Butte Yard on 7 June 2007. BBCRC placed the caboose on a short section of track and is making plans to restore the car.
*035	ex-GN 25-foot wood caboose, formerly GN #X-548. Same description as above. Was used in road service into the early 1960's. Caboose was completely remodeled inside and out and turned into a VIP car. Sold to the McCloud Railway Company in 1992. Car conveyed to a private party and moved off of the railroad's property in late 2006.
100	Private car of J.H. Queal, who was president of the McCloud River Railroad and McCloud River Lumber Company from 1907 until his death in 1921. Car was built new for the road by Pullman and was a fairly standard coach riding on six-wheel trucks with open platforms, a galley, and servant's quarters. Car had double windows with leaded glass overhead trim. Very fancy car. Did not spend much time on McCloud rails. The #100 was promptly sold to the Southern Pacific following Queal's death in 1921. Presumed scrapped.
*101	International wide-vision steel caboose, purchased new in 1962. Car was specially built to a custom short length. Was the primary work caboose by the late 1980's. Sold to the McCloud Railway in 1992. Remained in service until mid-1997, when it was destroyed in a yard switching accident in the McCloud yard. Still resides in McCloud, but has not been repaired and is not likely to see service again.
*102	International wide-vision steel caboose, purchased new in 1962. Car was specially built to a custom short length. Was out of service and stored derelict in the McCloud yards by the late 1980's. Car was sold to McCloud Railway Company in 1992 and was restored to service in 1996. Car was used in the excursion business until the #101 was destroyed, at which time it became the working caboose on the railroad. In daily service on the McCloud Railway today.
????	Three (3) Harriman style commute coaches, purchased from the Southern Pacific. Click on link for pictures and history.
leasers	In addition to the cabooses listed above, the railroad has also leased cabooses for short periods of time, including a couple Southern Pacific cabooses not otherwise identified and Western Pacific caboose #739.
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