Almanor Railroad

Infobox SG rail
railroad_name=Almanor Railroad
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marks=AL
locale=Sierra Nevada Mountains from Clear Creek Jct - Chester, CA
start_year=1941
end_year=present
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hq_city=Chester, California
The Almanor Railroad Reporting mark|AL is a Class III shortline operating in Northern California, USA. It is owned by Collins Pine and annually hauls about 300 cars of timber and lumber products generated at the mill. The railroad is named after Lake Almanor, to which the railroad runs over (by causeway), and adjacent to, for some distance.

The convert|13|mi|km|sing=on railroad runs west from a connection with the BNSF Railway (former Western Pacific) at Clear Creek Junction to Chester, California.

The Almanor Railroad was incorporated on September 15 1941, and purchased the line from the Grande Ronde Lumber Company.

The railroad line was built before 1931 by the Red River Lumber Company which had a private electric logging railroad with a trestle over the Feather River and ran from Westwood (about convert|3|mi|km east of Clear Creek Junction) to Chester. The portion of the Red River Lumber line between Westwood and Chester is now the BNSF mainline from Keddie to Bieber. The BNSF also has trackage rights over the Almanor Railroad.

The Almanor Railroad has one 70-ton GE locomotive built in 1955.

References

*cite book | author=Fickewirth, Alvin A.| title=California railroads: an encyclopedia of cable car, common carrier, horsecar, industrial, interurban, logging, monorail, motor road, shortlines, streetcar, switching and terminal railroads in California (1851-1992)| location=San Marino, CA | publisher=Golden West Books| year=1992| editor=| id=ISBN 0-87095-106-8
*cite book | author=Robertson, Donald B.| title=Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History - Volume IV - California| location=Caldwell, ID | publisher=The Caxton Printers | year=1998| editor=| id=ISBN 0-87004-385-4
*cite book | author=Stindt, Fred A. | title=American Shortline Railway Guide | edition=5th Ed.| location=Waukesha, WI | publisher=Kalmbach Publishing | year=1996| editor=| id=ISBN 0-89024-290-9
*cite book | author=Walker, Mike| title=Steam Powered Video's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - California and Nevada | edition=Post Merger Ed.| location=Faversham, Kent, United Kingdom | publisher=Steam Powered Publishing| year=1997| editor=| id=ISBN 1-874745-08-0

External links

* [http://www.collinswood.com/M2_CertifiedForests/M2H2A3B4_History.html The Collins Companies: Almanor: History]