McCloud River Railroad Caboose MR 103 - O'Brien, OR
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silverquill
N 42° 04.002 W 123° 42.237
10T E 441761 N 4657421
This retired caboose from the old McCloud River Railroad, is now an ice cream stand at the store and post office in the roadside town of O'Brien, Oregon, on the scenic Redwood Highway.
Waymark Code: WM5VY8
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 02/17/2009
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From the Wikipedia:
The McCloud Railway (reporting mark MCR) was a class III railroad operated around Mount Shasta, California. It began operations on July 1, 1992 when it took over operations from the McCloud River Railroad. The MCR was incorporated on April 21, 1992.
The MCR provided both freight service as well as passenger excursion trains like the Shasta Sunset Dinner Train.
Freight traffic consisted of outbound lumber and forest products as well as diatomaceous earth (filtering). Approximately 3,000 carloads of freight (1996 estimate) were handled annually.
The MCR interchanged with the Union Pacific (formerly known as the Southern Pacific) at Mount Shasta, California.
On June 27, 2005 the MCR applied with the Surface Transportation Board to abandon most of its line. The proposal requests to abandon all MCR track 3.3 miles (5.3 km) east of McCloud, California.
The MCR was originally built by the McCloud River Railroad. The McCloud River Railroad was chartered on January 22, 1897. By 1901 the line was running on 17.8 miles (28.6 km) of track between Mount Shasta and McCloud, California.
The railroad was primarily a logging railroad and thus had several different owners over the years including: U.S. Plywood Corporation (1963), U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers (1969), and Champion International (1972), Itel Corporation (1977). The railroad was sold to the current owner, Jeff E. and Verline Forbis (4-Rails, Inc.) on July 1, 1992.
The McCloud also had regular passenger service up until 1952.
MCR once owned 1,182 freight cars (1996 estimate). Most of these have been sold since the abandonment of freight service.
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