The Arcata & Mad River photo was posted to the Trainorders.com Western Railroad Discussion on May 13, 2003, and reused on this website with the photographers permission. For a little info on the A&MR, the postings regarding this photo are reproduced below: Date: 05-13-03 17:59 Author: SierraRail Now, here's a neat little railroad! The 7.5 mile-long Annie & Mary in Northern Calif., connecting with the legendary Northwestern Pacific. Here are 44-tonners 101 and 102 gliding through thick Redwood forests on their way to the mill at Korbel, CA. Location is Warren Creek trestle #2, Dec. 7, 1968. Date: 05-13-03 23:22 Re: Arcata & Mad River Author: jdlx Thanks for the great photo...that was quite a railroad (even as short as it was...). I went to college at Humboldt State from 1994-2000, and walked a good portion of that railroad while living in the dorms in Arcata. The North Coast Railroad quit operating the line about 1993, and by the fall of 1994 it was getting pretty well overgrown. From May 1995 through May 2000 we lived in Blue Lake, and the railroad grade ran 5 feet from our bedroom window (but no trains...). Many of those signs were still up along the right-of-way as late as just a few years ago. The North Coast Railroad Authority talked extensively about re-building and re-opening the railroad, but to no avail. It was kind of a shock (but not totally unexpected) to return home after Thanksgiving Day in 1997 to find A&K Railroad Materials actively picking up the rails. The Railroad Authority still holds the right-of-way, and as late as 1998 was still talking about re-building the line at some point, but that was right before the storm got serious... Date: 05-14-03 07:53 Re: Arcata & Mad River Author: jdlx A&MR last ran in 1983 or so (the railroad was forced to shut down when the NWP suspended service to Eureka as a result of the tunnel fire north of Willits...it is true that the NWP did re-open the line, but a $1200 per car surcharge kept all traffic from the Eureka area moving via trucks...). Simpson received permission to abandon the railroad about 1984. The A&MR boxcars were turned back to Itel, who sent them to the McCloud for storage (they used to be on the remnants of the Pondosa branch, and in early summer 1985 the McCloud yard was full of them). The Eureka Southern (while in bankruptcy) purchased the A&MR about 1987-1988 and restored service over the line. For quite a while the EUKA's north local was based out of Korbel, and the road's ex-CCT GP-7 #70 could be found sitting just outside the mill gates. The North Coast Railroad continued to operate the line after they took over in April 1992, but by late 1993 they suspended operations due to poor track conditions and extremely poor bridge conditions. The two shippers located on the line (Blue Lake Forest Products at Glendale and Simpson at Korbel) both established reloads in the greater Arcata area and the A&MR was done. The three 44-tonners on the property were included in the sale to the Eureka Southern, and the EUKA wasted little time in getting rid of 2 of them. The third was actually still on the property and was one of two locomotives that were inherited by the North Coast (the #70 was the other). The EUKA also purchased a burro crane from the A&MR, and it is still owned by the NWP and currently located on a siding along the line (Shively?), still in complete A&MR markings.