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McCloud Rails : Equipment & Rolling Stock Details
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Historic McCloud Equipment: Sand Car #503
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Shortly after the McCloud River Railroad dieselized the company built a new sanding tower adjacent to the new shop building. The railroad built a hopper on one side of the tower to supply sand and then retroffited an old tank car to transport sand to the tower.
The sand car, MR #503, served in this capacity until around 1972, when the shops removed the tank car body off of the old tank car frame and mounted it on flatcar #821 to create the new sand car. Follow the link to the page for Flat #821 for more photos and information.
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Sand car #503 sitting next to the sand tower in 1959. Photo by and courtesy of Ed Burggraf.
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Another view of #503. Photo from the Travis Berryman collection.
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