Quincy #5 drops down the steep grade from Quincy Junction with another cut of empties for the lumber mill in Quincy,CA on a very foggy morning.
Quincy Railroad #5 crosses the valley before climbing the 4% grade to Quincy Junction with four loads from big lumber mill in Quincy, CA. There the crew will set out the loads for the UPRR local a... (more)
The day after winter solstice Quincy Railroad #5 drifts down out of the fog on the 4% grade near Quincy Junction with 9 empties for the big lumber mill in Quincy, CA.
A cold winter storm begins to break up as the #12 pulls a four-pack of loads from the Sierra Pacific Mill in Quincy. Sitting in a valley at only 3,500', Quincy is often spared from the harshness o... (more)
For over 100 years, the Quincy Railroad has connected the small mountain town of Quincy, California with the outside world. When the Western Pacific Railroad built the Feather River Route in the e... (more)
The Niles Canyon Railway steam special crosses the Farwell Bridge that carries the line over Alameda Creek and Highway 84.
The Quincy Railroad forwards empty log flats to the UP interchange at Wendel. The cars were used to haul fire salvage logs from Arizona to Sierra Pacific's sawmill at Susanville.
A train of Arizona fire salvage logs departs Wendel for Susanville. This was our chase on the day before Winterail 2003.
A train of fire-damaged salvage logs from Arizona crosses US 395 on the former SP Susanville branch. The logs would be milled at the Sierra Pacific plant in Susanville.
Both Quincy Railroad locomotives are shown at the Sierra Pacific mill in Susanville. The operation to move Arizona fire-salvage logs to supply the mill there was the last hurrah for the old SP bra... (more)
Quincy Railroad 1100, Sierra Pacific Industries "Lil' Lulu", sits on display at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA during the 2011 Portola Railroad Days. The unit is an e... (more)
Quincy Railroad Co. #2, an Alco 2-6-2T, prepares for the SteamFest 2014 Quintuple Header at the Niles Canyon Railway.
Quincy Railroad 2 leaves Niles at the head end of a mixed train
Quincy Railroad 2 puts it consist together at Brightside Yard during Mixed Freights day as part of Steamfest III
Quincy 2 leads the train back to Sunol