Yreka Western Railroad
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Yreka Western Railroad Company | |
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Yreka Railroad Company | |
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Commercial history | |
Opened | 1889 |
1888 | Yreka Railroad Company Incorporated |
1889 | Rail Line Opened |
1933 | Re-Incorporated as Yreka Western Railroad Company |
1953 | Kyle Railways |
Preservation history | |
1986 | Blue Goose Excursion Train Begins |
Headquarters | Yreka, California |
Website | |
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The Yreka Western Railroad Company (
The Yreka Railroad Company was incorporated in May 1888, with a capital stock of $100,000, and opened in January 1889, connecting Yreka to the
Operations
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The railroad is an active freight railroad offering direct rail services to the customers on its line, as well as rail logistics and rail transloading services to industrial customers in the northern California and southern Oregon area who are not direct served by rail. The Yreka Western performs mechanical services to freight railcars. Under Railmark's ownership and operation the railroad does not provide excursion passenger rail services. Before 2016, the railroad was operated by The Rocky Mountain Railway and Mining Museum of Denver, Colorado and had provided both freight service and passenger train excursions. The freight traffic on the Yreka Western Railroad is primarily wood chips, forest products, propane, and machinery and bulk commodities. The railroad had provided excursion trains pulled by steam and diesel locomotives from the 1950s until 2007.
In 1986, the YW started operating a steam passenger train excursion known as the "Blue Goose" between Yreka and Montague. The railroad offered scenic views of Mount Shasta, the Shasta Valley and the Siskiyou Mountains. The trip took about one hour in either direction, with a 60 minute layover in Montague for lunch.[citation needed] While passengers explored and ate in Montague, the crew took the train to perform a runaround move so the locomotive would pull the train back to Yreka.
The most famous locomotive to run on the line is
Other locomotives include an
See also
References
- ^ "Scrapping history". The Siskiyou Daily News. April 19, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
- ^ "Railmark acquires Yreka Western Railroad". Progressive Railroading. January 27, 2017.