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One of McCloud Railway's last customers is the Dicalite Corp. located on the Cayton siding southeast of McCloud, CA. Dicalite filed a protest of the pending abandonment of the line but their argument didn't sway the Surface Transportation Board. Since this facility won't be here much longer, I took a drive to Cayton last summer and took some shots of the facility where they load diatomaceous earth into covered hoppers. Read more about the McCloud Railway on Jeff Moore's excellent McCloud Rails website: http://www.trainweb.org/mccloudrails/News.html

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Date: 4/12/2005 Road #: NAHX 59189 Location: Roseville, CA Builder/Model:  Covered Hopper more...   NAHX pressurized hopper used for loading  Date: 7/16/2005 Road #: Location: Cayton, CA Builder/Model:   The view looking railroad south from the Cayton siding along the McCloud Railway.  Date: 7/16/2005 Road #: Location: Cayton, CA Builder/Model:   The Dicalite Corp ships diatomaceous earth (looks like chalk).  Date: 7/16/2005 Road #: Location: Cayton, CA Builder/Model:   I really hope no one has to spend their day working in this office! If so, there better be an AC unit on there cause it can get hot in a metal box.  Date: 7/16/2005 Road #: Location: Cayton, CA Builder/Model:   A former Camino, Placerville and Lake Tahoe RR box car has been converted to a storage room and shed. The doors and trucks have been removed and it rests on blocks on the north end of the loading facility.  Date: 7/16/2005 Road #: Location: Cayton, CA Builder/Model:   A section house still stands on the north end of the loading facility.  Date: 7/16/2005 Road #: Location: Cayton, CA Builder/Model:   Standing on the northern end of the loading facility looking south, you can see the section house to the right and the hopper cars on the left in the distance.  Date: 7/16/2005 Road #: Location: Cayton, CA Builder/Model:   The rear of the section house.  Date: 7/16/2005 Road #: Location: Cayton, CA Builder/Model:   Cayton siding looking railroad north.  Date: 7/16/2005 Road #: Location: Cayton, CA Builder/Model:   Dicalite Corp logo from one of their covered hoppers which carry diatomaceous earth.    Next 10 >>

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