I never knew that this Mikado was exhibited at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition in San Francisco before sale to the McCloud River. Has anyone ever seen photos of it there?

http://www.modbee.com/local/story/13770 ... 1981c.html

Bob-

The McCloud River actually displayed the locomotive at the fair. The fair organizers wanted all of California's major industries represented, and the McCloud River Lumber Company, McCloud River Railroad Company, Weed Lumber Company, and Red River Lumber Company banded together to represent logging in California's pine belt. The three lumber companies built a display house on the fair grounds almost completely out of the products of their various sawmills, including a fireplace constructed of volcanic rocks quarried in the region. The McCloud River Railroad provided a display train consisting of the #18, two McCloud River log flats carrying log loads, one of the railroad's Pullman boxcars carrying a load of lumber from the McCloud mill, and McCloud caboose #015

I do have a picture of the display train on my McCloud Rails website at the following link:

http://www.trainweb.org/mccloudrails/Lo ... -0018.html

I have only seen one other photo of this train, and it was in a period Timberman (one of the leading industrial journals of the time). That photo showed the train from more of a side angle than the photo I have.

Jeff Moore
Elko, NV

I recall seeing a photo in TRAINS Magazine many years ago of a Yreka Western engineer with a shotgun resting out of the cab window of either 2-8-2 #18 or sister 19. As I recall, the photo was somehow taken from above and behind, perhaps from a bridge over the tracks. The caption explained that the engineer was looking for rabbits or pheasants or something similar. If successful, he would apparently drive back later to pick up his prize. Anyone know of that photo and the issue in which it was published? Who took it and from where? If the trackage still exists today? And if it was number 18 or number 19 in the photo?

I have heard of stories of engine crews shooting game from cab windows but this is the only firm evidence I have ever seen that backs up that claim.

Les