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McCloud Rails : Equipment & Rolling Stock Details
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| MCR 2000, 2002, 2004-2006 |
| These seven cars are “hospital” cars, built to transport wreck-damaged cars that cannot move on their own wheels to repair facilities. The McCloud shops built these cars around 2000 under contract; however, they remained on the McCloud roster until early 2004, when all but two of the cars (#2001 and #2003) were sold to Jim Dobbas Incorporated. They have been seen on the Union Pacific wearing the JDIX reporting marks of their new owner. The cars were re-built from old Canadian National Railroad automobile transport cars. |
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These are the former auto carrier bodies that were removed from the cars during their conversion to hospital cars. Photo is by Peter Ely and is from the Drew Toner collection. |
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McCloud, CA, 11/2002. |
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McCloud, CA, 5/2003. Several of the hospital cars were put into service for the first time cleaning up a major derailment at Big Canyon Fill. The derailment occurred on 30 December 2002. Here is one car loaded with truck and coupler parts from that derailment. |
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McCloud, CA, 5/2003. Two Union Pacific woodchip hoppers damaged in the 30 December 2002 wreck rest on two of the McCloud’s hospital cars, awaiting movement to elsewhere to be scrapped. |
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In July 2003 a Union Pacific freight derailed at Small siding, just north of Dunsmuir. UP borrowed a couple of the MCR hospital cars to help with the derailment cleanup. These photos show the McCloud’s hospital cars at Small and were taken by and are presented here courtesy of Ryan Wilkerson (http://www.shastarails.com). |
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Hospital cars at Small, same info as previous photo. |
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Car #2002 reflecting its current ownership on the UP north of Redding. Also a Ryan Wilkerson photo. |
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