Talk:Arcata and Mad River Railroad

Origin
45.5" gauge?? rather unusual. Peter Horn 22:27, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Removed text due to lack of citations
I rewrote the article today to meet Wikipedia standards and removed the following uncited text: Between 1969 and 1972, The Simpson Lumber Company, which now owned the Arcata and Mad River #7, loaned the locomotive back to the Arcata and Mad River Railroad for an Arcata to Blue Lake Excursion train, using the Shay and 3 Harriman passenger cars. Boiler issues and a slowing ridership caused the operation to cease. The Shay #7, affectionately dubbed "Spanking Fury" was put back into storage after 1972 at Korbel. In 1979, she was placed into storage off of the NWP mainline in Arcata, at the lumber mill called "Humboldt Loaders." A stray spark hit the building, and the enclosure collapsed on #7 in flames. She sat next to Highway 101 at this location for a number of years, until she was sold to the Timber Heritage Association for one dollar. She was stored at the Glendale THA collection site until 2006, and she now resides at the Samoa Roundhouse, being cosmetically restored, and hopefully part of the proposed Humboldt Bay Scenic Railroad in the future.

The railroad continued to operate using the four 44 ton diesels, until the line was pending abandonment in 1983. –The four diesels were sold– Both #102, and #103 were scrapped, some parts being salvaged for the #101. ... Service on the AMR was discontinued in 1983, and the line was abandoned on May 24, 1985. In September 1988 the Eureka Southern Railroad purchased the AMR from Simpson Timber Company for $300,000. The AMR had been closed for the two-year period (1986-1988) prior to its purchase by the Eureka Southern. Service was briefly resumed in 1994 by the North Coast Railroad. Soon afterwards, the trestles near West End Road had become condemned due to their condition and the line was not operational. The NCRA owed A&K Railroad Materials money for repairs at South Fork and in the Eel River Canyon. The company demanded either the money or the materials back, so in order to settle the debt, A&K scrapped the track from the Arcata & Mad River, with the reluctant approval from the NCRA. Washouts occurred in the southern portion of the NWP line near Shellville in 1997 due to an El Niño storm event, causing all rail traffic to be trapped. Without any revenue, landslides in the Eel River canyon continued to grow, culverts plugged up, and track conditions fell apart. By early 1998, the NWP was inoperable. In 2011, the NWP was reopened between Schellville and Windsor (NWP Mile Post 62), but not to Eureka. Because of this, the Arcata & Mad River is no longer running.
 * 1) 101 was sold to a chemical plant in Louisiana. She got new engines and was shipped back to Humboldt for the collection of the Timber Heritage Association in 2006,after the chemical company discontinued use of their own railroad.#101 sat at the Humboldt FlakeBoad plant in Arcata until late 2012, but she is now stored in operating condition at the Samoa Roundhouse Facilities.
 * 2) 104 survives as well, still operating at Roots of Motive Power in Willits, CA. #104 sat at the Eureka rail yard until 1992, and then she was moved by rail to Willits, apparently under her own power.

If anyone finds citations for these statements, which seem to have been added by someone in the local Timber Heritage Association, we can then re-add them (without the flowery and affectionate language) to the main page. Ellin Beltz (talk) 19:54, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

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California Barrel Company
Was the California Barrel Company at the eastern end of the rail line connected with the Korbel Wines? question by User:FAHansson, 5 March 2019
 * California Barrel Company was a San Francisco-based firm manufacturing barrels, wire-bound boxes, and similar wood containers from 1902. Over one-thousand workers were employed at their manufacturing plant in Arcata. The mapped location was one of several logging camps between the Mad and Klamath Rivers. As corrugated paperboard containers became less expensive, the Arcata plant was sold to Roddis Plywood in 1956, converted to other uses, and within a decade through Weyerhauser ownership to the Arcata Redwood Company. I didn't find any mention of Korbel ownership.Thewellman (talk) 00:32, 6 March 2019 (UTC)