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McCloud Rails : Equipment & Rolling Stock Details
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| MCR 821 |
| The #821 flatcar has an interesting past on the railroad. Around 1972 a tank car body salvaged from Sand Car #503 was mounted on the flat car, and the resulting assemblage was put into service as the railroad’s sand car, feeding the sanding tower adjacent to the McCloud shop building. The car performed this service until shortly after the McCloud Railway startup, when a new stand-alone hopper was built to house sand and the tank car body was removed from the flat. The #821 was then run through the McCloud shops, where it was converted to a heavy equipment transport flat, replacing another flatcar (possibly the #827) in that service. The car is also known as the 966 flat, since its primary job is to transport the railroad’s model 966 front-end loader to various job sites on the railroad. It is also used in other maintenance-of-way work on the railroad. |
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The #821 in 1984. Pat Holden photo, Jeff Moore collection.Society. |
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17 Sept 1982. Photo by Jimmy Bryant, courtesy Nevada Historical Society. |
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17 Sept 1982. Photo by Jimmy Bryant, courtesy Nevada Historical Society. |
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McCloud, CA, 11/2002. The former sand car body as it appears today, rolled upside down at the “run-around”, the road’s equipment storage yard about one mile east of McCloud. |
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McCloud, CA, 5/2003. |
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McCloud, CA, 11/2002. |
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McCloud, CA, August 2005. |
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