Just a couple small corrections, the Chehalis and Centralia Railroad and the OCSR are 2 entirely different companies and have not alot of connection between them, and the depot you spoke of at Blue Heron is actually the original SP Tilimook station, but there is no plans to run trains to Blue Heron as the track is about half a mile east of the factory, and there is a bridge between Garibaldi and Tillimook that is not fit for passenger trains. Great video though!
SUCH A BEAUTIFUL LOCOMOTIVE.THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE THIS IS WHY I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR VIDEO AND SHARE YOUR SCREWING AROUND TIME WITH YOUR SUBSCRIBERS ALWAYS INFORMATIVE AND INTERESTING THANK YOU BOTH CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT ONE THE TRAINS WHISTLE SOUNDS GREAT. THANK YOU BOTH AGAIN JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA. 😷😷👍👍🚂👌
The 25 was used in Stand By Me while it was still on the McCloud Railway (formerly McCloud River Railroad) in Northern California. The scene was filmed around the Lake Britton bridge, which still stands but is abandoned.
@@ToyManTelevision I would like to visit the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad in Garibaldi, Oregon. It’s another heritage railroad that I never went before.
Love this video! Im huge fan of their engine "McCloud River Railroad# #25, 25's original home is on McCloud River RR, McCloud California. Im glad to 25# is still running. I'm actually that kid that owns that PRR A5 at Los Angeles Live Steamers! Nice to pay a visit to your channel again! :)
Great video. Couple of corrections: When the Skookum was wrecked in 1955, it derailed an gently capsized. Didn't break a single piece of glass. The line was about to be abandoned and Skookum was left where she lay. #7 languished in storage in Snoqualmie and at the Mt Rainier Scenic shops for decades, but I never saw it in Chehalis. The Centralia Chehalis train is indeed a fun ride.
I have to tell you that I look forward ,each wee, to your videos. They are a breath of fresh air on an internet rapidly becoming as full of garbage as network television. My wife and I celebrate our 50th anniversary next year and we have been taking notes on the spots you folks have visited and shared with the world. Our plan is for a cross country trip. Going west on the northern route (we live on the East Coast) and coming back home via the south. Keep up the great work.
AWESOME GOOD VIDEO VERY INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS WITH YOUR SUBSCRIBERS ALWAYS INFORMATIVE AND HELPFUL VERY BEAUTIFUL SCENERY AND A WONDERFUL LOCOMOTIVE AWESOME INFORMATION BEAUTIFUL RESTORATION TRUE CRAFTSMAN. FOR SURE. 🚂🚂👍😷🙏📸
Wow....such beautiful scenery. I love the way the fog just kind of rolls in over the ocean and you can see it just near the top of the trees. It's such a majestic sight.
that's funny that this Railroad is related to the Chehalis and Cowlitz scenic that's actually one of them I did write on when I was a kid I rode the Amtrak to Washington State and got to ride number 15 which is 282 Mikado I got to ride in the cab of the steam locomotive and blow the whistle I got pictures of it too it's pretty cool awesome video that is a beautiful railroad as well thank you guys peace out have a good day
Thank you Dale & Karen for taking me on a Sunday afternoon excursion...sitting here with my fried chicken & biscuits on the train! Wonderful journey! Keep on having fun! You are the best channel ever!!! :)
Chicken and biscuits! Yummy! Our afternoon excursion for today, will be arm wrestling a black widow spider that has taken up residency in the door of Garage Mahal! She either leaves, or pays rent! Off we go!!
My dad was a logger on and around Mt. Shasta and McCloud. I remember 25 well. We chased it driving on dirt roads. The train had the advantage running on smooth rails. What fun that was.
Toy Man Television good advice, but I've never been on a bridge that even had the remotest chance of being occupied by a train. Did get caught in a tunnel once though. And I promise that will never happen again.
Speaking of speeder excursion, I am running the Oregon Coast Scenic RR next Sunday. Enjoyed your video. The Skookum used to be called "The Little River" named for the logging operation it was made for back in the Southeast. I came to the NW for logging operations. My brother had (now it is mine) an O scale two rail brass model of this locomotive and I will be taking it with me to Tillamook Bay to photograph it with the Original. Chris Baldo is the owner of the Skookum, he ran motor car excursions when I first got into this hobby. McCloud #25 ran on the McCloud River RR in Northern California and I feel I am coming full circle. The McCloud line no longer exists, but this locomotive was there when I made my first Speeder run ever on the McCloud. Tillamook branch was sold to the Tillamook Bay RR and it was home to the several SD9s of both SP and BN. It was a major flood that disconnected the railroad from Portland back in the early 2000s. I barely missed making the last speeder trip on that line. Couldn't gget away from work for the Saturday run. I will have my video on my youtube page sometime next week. Great job.
I am trying to plan on going towards the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad later next month soon hopefully along with seeing McCloud River Railroad #25 too.
When I stopped and thought about it, it’s all the way through the line connected with the ocean !!! I immediately thought of the “Florida Keys” and the train that ran up until (1935) when the last hurricane destroyed the rails and Flagler decided to sell it to the state to Bring (“US-1”) all the way down to Key West !!!!! Or as the natives call it Margaritaville in Key West in (“Kokomo”) between Marathon key north. Up to Key Largo !!! And yes Kokomo does exist between the islands of Key Largo and Marathon stuck right in the middle !!!!! 🌊🐺
The only problem with driving that road all the way down to Key West on US-1 is that the speed limit is 55 all the way “from” the 37 mile stretch starting at Key Largo all the way to Key West is exactly 100 miles ! And we go by Mile Marker in the Florida Keys, like Key Largo starts at mile marker 100 and ends at mile marker 97 Tavineer starts at mile marker 98 ! Street names are secondary ! I lived on Grouper Trail in Key Largo MM-94 ! 🌊🐺
Its funny how we have simular tastes my family grew up in colorado my grandfather great grandfather and 2 great uncles worked for DRGW RR 3 as engineers and 1 great uncle worked in the shops i was in job corps at tongue point in astoria and now i live near chehalis / centralia washington and trains are a passion of mine too thankyou for the great videos
Not sure where Skookum will end up. Here?? For a while for sure. North in Washington? Could be. In someone’s yard. They say that’s the plan. Or perhaps Niles Canyon in California. Good bet it’s there for a while at least as the locomotives owner is a member there.
I'm so happy you included this train ride! I missed it this past summer while visiting family in OR. I hope that sometime you can ride the Mount Rainer RR in Elbe WA, which I managed to do. The return point of that train ride features an interesting logging camp museum and other neat train stuff. Aloha from Hawai'i.
I was fortunate enough to ride in 25's cab on the last day it operated on the McCloud... really sad the McCloud isn't running anymore (still hoping the portion from McCloud to Shasta City gets resurrected). Happy to see the engine well taken care of and operating in such a beautiful place if not on its home rails. If memory serves, it was rebuilt just prior to its last excursion on the McCloud.
The boiler in the shop ahead of the Skookum belongs to Sierra Railway 2-6-2 No. 30, which is being rebuilt for the Pacific Locomotive Association, the owners of the Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol, California.
I was told several versions of everything. That Skookum was going to Niles. It does seem that it belongs to one person. This is often the case. In most groups while some of the equipment belongs to the group, some belongs to members, and often it ends badly what a person sells or moves their equipment. And others say, no that belongs to the group. Boy have we seen some hair pulling.
I find it odd that even the folks there wouldn't know, or perhaps they all have different versions of the story to keep people confused (some places don't like to share their secrets for some reason). Deep River Logging No. 7 (Skookum) is owned by Chris Baldo of Willits, California. I believe the original plan was to have it moved to the Roots of Motive Power Museum just up the road from the California Western Railroad depot there, but not sure if he has made other arrangements at this point. The Roots of Motive Power Museum is a few miles from Baldo's locomotive shop just outside of Willits. Skookum will remain on the Oregon Coast Scenic until at least late March next year, Trains Magazine have chartered a special photo train with it.
Angell and Karyn, the next time you venture to the East of your domain, a trip to the Ames Brothers Monument, and with the property holders permission, a look over the site of Sherman township, there must be some foundations still visible, and the roundhouse turntable pit is visible on Google Maps, the cemetery, and then follow the track to (4x4 country)to the site of the Dale Creek trestle. that would be really of interest. All the best, you keep us all interested!
Another well done show, I just watched both this and the 4449 show from last week for the second time. If you want to get a chance to ride behind 4449, the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation operates their annual holiday express trips during several weekends in November and December every year, you should look into it. I haven't ridden on it before, but I know someone who rode on it with his family a few years ago and he said they had a good time.
On October 18th, the Skookum moved under her own power for the first time in 63 years thus ending restoration. Two special charters are scheduled for March 2019. I wonder if you guys may make plans to see it.
Too bad you guys didn’t get to see them running their Heisler. THAT is a rare sight. Also, I know that at one point the Oregon Coast Scenic RR had a shay stored in the Tillamook Air Museum. Did you hear anything about that locomotive while you guys were up there?
The Skookum was not wrecked badly, it just rolled off the track. It was one of the locomotives used at the Deep River Logging company at Deep River, Wash. My Dad and twin brother and I went to see it laying on it's side along the road bed that had just been picked up and abandoned the locomotive. That was 1955. It was bought by Charlie Maslow and moved to Snoqualmie, Wash. and the Puget Sound Hist. railway and then to Mt. Raineer railway at Alder, Wash.
@@ToyManTelevision It was fate that she rolled over at the last minute and into a ditch knowing full well that some rail fan would come and buy her to rebuild her.There was a bunch of parts stolen off her when she lay at the PSHR yards.
I grews up in Wahkiakum county at Cathlamet. My Dad and all my uncles were steam locomotive engineers. Uncles Walt and Bert got the builders plates of the two Baldwin steam locomotives that operated for Crown Zellerbach at Cathlamet. Deep River is in the western part of the county.
No the bridge scene was on the lake britton bridge in northern California on the mccloud river railroad and the engine has no major rebuilds I can tell you about my great grandfather built the railroad
That was on a 4449 trip to Northern California, I believe it was a trip to Sacramento and they pulled 4449 alongside 25 at a junction between the BNSF Railway Oregon Trunk Line and the McCloud River Railroad. There's pictures of that online. It was probably the late 1980's or early 1990's. It could have been even later in the 1990's. I don't know for certain, though. I know that was a rare occasion, a trip that will probably never be repeated, due to the current attitude of railroad companies like Amtrak, BNSF Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, and others across the country. That's why trips to railroad museums, tourist railroads, excursion trains, switching, terminal, regional, and shortline railroads that are still willing to host passenger trains of any kind are so special!
I don't know if they still have it there, but, I heard they acquired Saginaw Timber Company 2-8-2 steam locomotive #2 from the Midcontinent Railway Museum in North Freedom, Wisconsin, also I heard the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad is restoring Chesapeake and Ohio 2-6-6-2 #1309; also you should some kond of tribute video to Burt Reynolds, he passed away this year
I got to meet Burt as we had a common friend, Robby. Been trying to contact Robby, but can't get through to him. Have heard about 1309. Love to see that!!
There's something about American railways that just seems so different, so strange to me. I do not like open cars. I used to work on the Puffing Billy Railway that is almost entirely open air "excursion" coaches on their trains. (The first and last coaches are usually conventional coaches to be used as guard's compartments) the NBH excursion coaches (N for Narrow Gauge, B for second class, H for Holiday) are solid at the ends and have full length doors with windows the same as a normal carriage but the walls of the coaches are open at the sides and barred with horizontal bars. It's traditional for kids to sit on the side of the coach with their legs dangling and held in place by the bars. When stored at night or on rainy days there are plastic roll down sheets that can be pinned down to secure them. The sheets have clear plastic panels to see through but not very well. (I believe they were originally canvas)
They’re seriously restoring Skookum for a backyard operation? Thought they’d run it on the Scenic Railroad. Well, as long as the first of the Baldwin Logging Mallets is safe and sound, I’ll be okay with it.
Thats what they told me. The guy who owns it is also part on Niles Canyon so good bet it will move around. BUT I guess he's planning on laying some track in his "yard"
If you do make it up this way some day be sure and stop by the Lewis County Historical Museum. Its located in the old NP railway station in downtown Chehalis. There is also a model railroad in the museum. Club members are there every friday afternoon. Kevin
Southern pacific let it go , the port of Tillamook Bay rail road operated the railroad until a storm washed out a mile of track up on the Wilson river...it was deemed to costly to fix , then the current operator's have since turned it into a scenic railroad....you left out the port of Tillamook bay railroad
