Something a little different today.
Well…off the top of my head, it looks like paradise![:)]
It certainly isn’t anywhere in SO CAL! Must be somewhere around Portland or Seattle- all that blue sky is deceiving, though.
Well the caboose appears to be marked GNRR so seems like it is PNW somewhere
Looks a lot like the little park I’ve seen just off I-5 near Dunsmuir.
Not Dunsmuir but you are in the neighborhood.
It’s not the one off of Railroad Park Rd. south of Dunsmuir?
Not Dunsmuir
It is the Railroad Park Resort, south of Dunsmuir
The Mt Ranier Senic RR. in Elbe WA?
What about that museum in Portola Ca?
It does not look like Dunsmuir, nor does it look like North Bend, WA., nor is it the Portola Museum. Only the Railroad Park, a place with a Dunsmuir Post Office address, but is acutally located a bit south of Dunsmuir at I-5 Exit 728 between the Station Locations of Dunsmuir Yard and Castella. That is the front portion of the three-truck Shay at the park in the picture.
Clemente, zgardner18 and oerm all have the answer. But I do not know what Chad wants to see as the answer. The place is a lot closer to Dunsmuir than it is to Castella
Ok guys, Dunsmuir is close but it is McCloud. The cabooses are rented out like hotel rooms and this is where the Dinner train runs out of. I may have mistakenly used the photo of the Shay though. My dad took that picture and I thought it was at the same location but I may be wrong. Sorry about that.
The cabooses may be at McCloud, but the top two are from the RR Park at Dunsmuir. The middle picture is the flanger that they have there, the top is the shay.
Chad-
You are mistaken on this one. All of those photos were taken at the Railroad Park Resort near Dunsmuir. None of them were taken in McCloud. There is one bed & breakfast place that has cabooses in McCloud, but their cabooses- they only have two or three of them- were wide vision models, not the bay window variety shown in your photos. I am 99% sure that there are no bay window cabooses anywhere in McCloud.
The steam locomotive in the photos, while it LOOKS like a Shay, it is NOT a Shay…it is a Willamette, a copycat machine built by the Willamette Iron company in Portland, OR, after the original Shay patent expired. Willamette only built less than 30 or so of these machines, but they had a huge impact on the geared steam locomotive market. Lima (manufacturere of the Shay) and the other major geared steam locomotive builders (Stearns and Climax) had been very slow to bring a lot of the advancements in steam locomotive technology to their geared locomotives. Willamette incorporated all of the technology advancements into their locomotives when they started building them, and this action forced the “big three” to add the same advancements into their machines. The end result was the Pacific Coast Shay and Heisler’s West Coast Special, and a similar upgraded Climax. The Willamette displayed at the Railroad Park Resort is the Medford Corporation #7, which formerly worked on their logging railroad than ran eastward from Medford, OR, to the Butte Falls area.
The flanger at the railroad park resort was McCloud River #1773. The resort was originally supposed to be a railroad museum, and when they established it in 1963/1964 the McCloud River Railroad donated five pieces of equipment to it, including this flanger, a bucker/flanger, combination coach #01, caboose #031, and a bucker plow. The flanger and bucker plow are displayed in the park today; the #01 and #031 are incorporated as part of the restaurant; and a flash flood destroyed the bucker/flanger many years ago
One more thing…almost all of the cabooses in the resort are ex-SP models, a combination of bay window and cupola examples. The resort has painted and lettered them for many western railroads, including the GN…so don’t be fooled by the names that appear on them.
Jeff Moore
Elko, NV