This is a new group in Redding, California. They are working on the old SP depot there and plan a railroad park nearby, with a turntable and small roundhouse. They have signed a purchase agreement to acquire former Sacramento Valley & Eastern 2-6-2T No. 2 from Nevada State RR Museum's Boulder City collection. A local person has donated an ex-PRR wooden passenger car that later went to Arkansas' Dardenelle & Russellville and later to Twentyth Century Fox for movie use. The passenger car has been rebuilt variously as a coach, combine and baggage car (its current appearance). They also have a few logging items, including a railbus trailer car from the McCloud River RR.

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ryarger@rypn.org

> This is a new group in Redding, California.
> They are working on the old SP depot there
> and plan a railroad park nearby, with a
> turntable and small roundhouse. They have
> signed a purchase agreement to acquire
> former Sacramento Valley & Eastern
> 2-6-2T No. 2 from Nevada State RR Museum's
> Boulder City collection. A local person has
> donated an ex-PRR wooden passenger car that
> later went to Arkansas' Dardenelle &
> Russellville and later to Twentyth Century
> Fox for movie use. The passenger car has
> been rebuilt variously as a coach, combine
> and baggage car (its current appearance).
> They also have a few logging items,
> including a railbus trailer car from the
> McCloud River RR.

Are there any plans to incorporate the Willamette loco and other pieces at the Railraod Park nearby off of Interstate 5?


gandmferguson@shaw.ca

New item in FLIMSIES about a "move of their steam engine and two box cars to a new site." Did some checking on the internet and found out that they apparently are moving, but see only a small Whitcomb 4 wheel gas-mechanical unit, a MofW car obviously made from an old wood box car and the above mentioned ex-D&R wood bodied baggage car. Their Facebook site lists the new location as being about 5 acres with a loop of rail and two sidings planned for it. Questions abound! What about number 2, the saddletanker? Is there another box car, or did the TV reporter confuse the baggage car as a second boxcar? Long time since Bob Yarger posted this original thread on RyPN, so a bit surprising the group is still in existence.

Les

Is the 2-6-2T that is mentioned here the same one that has been sitting just off the east side of I-5 at the very north end of Redding? Interesting little machine, looks like they tried to design as much water space in the saddletank as they could.
Be nice to see it steam again. 17" cylinders?

Tom, Yes...the 2-6-2T on the east side of I-5 north of Redding is the one owned by this group. I don't seem to have anything handy giving specifications for this machine.

I do find it interesting the banners displayed on the sides of the cars direct people to a website that, as far as I can tell, no longer exists. There is a short video on YouTube from a few years back featuring an interview with the then (and maybe still?) president that features a couple short clips of the subject locomotive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qXkAnUhz0Q

Up until this move, the group had been storing some equipment south of Redding, just off Highway 273 and adjacent to the UP mainline:

https://goo.gl/maps/Tw9Z5

The wood m-o-w car they have is an ex-Northern Pacific wood car- it was part of the Fred Kepner/Great Western Railway Museum collection stored in McCloud for many years and was purchased by the SCRPS a decade or so ago.

I believe their intentions are to one day move everything to a single location...in addition to the SV&E #2, they also have an ex-McCloud River caboose currently stored in a trucking company yard in Anderson and a tank car stored somewhere...they had a list of equipment on the website they no longer appear to maintain, those are the two I remember from the last time I looked quite some time ago now.

As for the other question posed eleven years ago- no plans at all I know of to incorporate anything out of the Railroad Park Resort by Dunsmuir into this group- I don't think there is much (if any) affiliation between this group and the resort.

Jeff Moore
Elko, NV

In the short YouTube video referenced above, there is a diagram of the area at about the 1:50 time segment, that shows a proposed track layout for the 5 plus acres. The new plan is different, and simplified. Strictly a loop of track with switches leading to two parallel sidings in the center of the loop with a third switch leading to a short stub of track into one of the corners of the acreage. Parking for cars at one end of the property and closest to these three stub tracks which are shown with rail cars parked for display. Looking quite like a beginners HO gauge track layout, but probably sufficient for what equipment they have and for their proposed purpose for future visitors to the site. Also interesting that the proposal seems to have an approval signature in the bottom corner; perhaps the local zoning board?

Les

Jeff and the forum--

Used the Internet Archive to access cached versions of their website:

All pages linked to below were cached on November 3rd, 2006.

Home page: http://web.archive.org/web/20061103103417/http://www.scrps.com/pages/home.html

Page for wood McCloud River caboose: http://web.archive.org/web/20061103103553/http://www.scrps.com/pages/mcloud-pondosa.html

This page lists a second McCloud caboose and the ex-SP tank car, SCMX #657: http://web.archive.org/web/20061103103719/http://www.scrps.com/pages/otherequp.html

History page for SV&E #2: http://web.archive.org/web/20061103103425/http://www.scrps.com/pages/sactohist.html

Why am I not surprised that they have not updated their website since 2005!

Mr. Starr