McCloud River Railroad : Passenger Operations: Excursion Photos

Trains Unlimited Tours
12-13 October 1996

Trains Unlimited Tours became a regular sponsor of McCloud Railway excursions after the success of the 1994 trip with the #19. Their next event happened over the weekend of 12-13 October 1996, but this time used the freshly painted diesel #36. Passengers rode in dinner train cars, passenger flats, cabooses, and two ex-VIA Rail passenger cars leased from the Feather River Rail Society for the event. The train over the course of two days covered the Mt. Shasta and Hambone lines on one day and the long trip to Burney and return the other day. McCloud Railway purchased the coaches shortly after this excursion.

The #36 with the special at the McCloud depot. The locomotive had been painted shortly before the excursion.
The #36 on a photo run-by for the passengers at Signal Butte.
The special crossing Ski Park Highway in Mt. Shasta City.

The train at Big Canyon.
The train picked up the passenger coaches in McCloud and is seen here at Bigelow headed east for Hambone.
The cabooses passing the Bartle tank.
Somewhere on the line. Someone put white "Extra Movement" flags on the #36 at Bartle. Wayne I. Monger photo.
The train turned on the Bartle wye and went to Hambone caboose first, seen here at McIntosh Vista. Wayne I. Monger photo.
The excursion near Car A.
The cabooses brings up the end of the excursion near Car A. Note the Christmas lights still on the caboose from when it had been on display downtown in the prior holiday season.
The train at Hambone. Wayne I. Monger photo.
The cabooses at McIntosh Vista.
The #36 eastbound approaching Pilgrim Creek Road heading for Burney at the start of the other day of the weekend.
The #36 arriving at Curtis on the outbound trip to Burney.
The photographer climbed to the top of the bluff on the south side of the Lake Britton Bridge to shoot this next sequence of photos.
Crossing Highway 89.
The #36 between the highway and lake bridges.
The cabooses bringing up the rear of the train.
Lake Britton on the return trip. Wayne I. Monger photo.
Crossing a dirt road between Lake Britton and Cayton.
Shadows are getting long as the train rolls back through Curtis.
One final shot of the excursion rolling westbound through Bartle.