Engine #18 Movie.wmv

June 13, 2010 Was the final run of Engine #18 in Southern California. After her run from Fillmore, CA to Santa Paula, CA the locomotive was trucked back to her new home in Carson, Nevada and the Virginia & Truckee Railroad.

Engine #18 was built in October of 1914, s/n 41709, and was delivered from the Baldwin Locomotive Company of Philadelphia in 1915 to the McCloud River Rail Road. After a brief ownership by the Yreka Western RR she came back to the McCloud River Rail Road. Before they folded Engine #18 was sold to Virginia & Truckee Rail Road .

Formerly owned and operated by McCloud River Railway Co., which ran it near Mount Shasta in Northern California.

Engine #18 weighs in at 187,000 lbs, but with full water and fuel it weighs about 258,700 lbs. It is a 2-8-2 wheel configuration of the "Mikado" type.

The locomotive is entirely black, except for its brass bell and the silver painted smoke box, walkway and letters on the side. It now burns oil to make steam. The first oil fired steam locomotives were first tested here on the Santa Paula branch by Getty Oil and the Southern Pacific Rail Road.

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[virginiatruckee]

One more, again, very nice video, the engine is actually owned by the Nevada Commission for the Reconstruction of the Virginia and Truckee Railway, who then leases it to the Virginia and Truckee Railroad. The Railroad has been running for nearly 35 years with no tax money, the government project, originally budgeted at $10 million looks like $70 million before they're all done.

It will get even more confusing, after many years of a legal trademark fight, the VTRR is licensing their name to govt

[virginiatruckee]

at 0:47 you can make out the engineer, I thought it would be Charlie! Then at 1:27 I don't recognize the fireman either. I thought the V&T guys ran the train for the movie, they must have used the local crew on this run?

Thanks for posting!

One question, you say a brief stay at Yreka, I thought it went there in the 1950's, blew a steam box and sat under a tarp for decades, before returning to McCloud under Jeff Forbis in the 1990's. Abused, neglected, runs but needs work. A work in progress!

[railfan101]

@imagreatbigman Yes, and she just steamed up for her first revenue run as well recently.

[imagreatbigman]

is this engine already at the virginia and truckee railroad?

[DouglasSteam40]

Got to love the stream of water exiting the safeties and the engineer opening the cylinder cocks to prevent too much priming!