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McCloud Rails : Equipment & Rolling Stock Details
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Former McCloud Equipment; McCloud River Lumber Company Railbus #52/63 |
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The transition from mobile log camps to permanent log camps made by the lumber company in the late 1920’s meant that loggers had to commute from the camps to the cutting sites. The lumber company needed passenger equipment to transport the loggers. One of the resulting pieces of equipment was McCloud River Lumber Company #52, a self-propelled railbus built in the Pondosa shops about 1927. The #52 was later re-numbered #63. It served out of Pondosa, Whitehorse, Widow Valley, and Kinyon during it’s career. The railbus was abandoned at Kinyon after the close of woods-based logging operations in 1964. The hulk still rests in Kinyon on the remains of a siding, slowly collapsing under the elements. |
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The railbus had already been abandoned for several years at the time of this picture but was still in relatively decent shape. Photo courtesy of Heritage Junction Museum of McCloud, Inc. |
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5/2003. The body of the railbus. |
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5/2003. Notice how the tree has grown around the nose of the railbus. |
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5/2003. The rear of the railbus. |
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5/2003. Graffiti on the side of the car. |
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5/2003. The interior of the car. |
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Below are additional links to historic photographs of the Railbus from the Eastman Collection in the Special Collections Department of the University of California Davis Library; used with permission. [PLEASE NOTE: Each link opens in the same browser window as this page. To return here, use your browser's BACK BUTTON. Another note: If you are using a 'current' browser, you can enlarge the photo by moving your mouse cursor over the photo. An icon will appear lower right; click it to enlarge or shrink. |
Below is a photo of McCloud River Lumber Company #50, a sister car to the #52, used in the same service. The converted truck is long gone, but the caboose shown behind it ended up off-rail in Pondosa, where it sat for many years before being rescued and restored by the Shasta-Cascade Rail Preservation Society. It is currently on display in |
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A close-up shot of the caboose. Photograph courtesy of Heritage Junction Museum of McCloud, Inc. |
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