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California Western Railroad M-200 doodlebug sits out of easy camera reach on the Niles Canyon Railway.
Hopefully Telbert is still watching me :D
Erected in 1926 by the Skagit Steel & Iron Works, it's a diesel hydraulic with 250 HP.
I wanted to get closer but a busy road and a rather brackish ditch (You know the type, the ones that look 3 inches deep, but are often 3ft deep) meant I had to shoot it from the other side of the road.
Hopefully Telbert is still watching me :D
Erected in 1926 by the Skagit Steel & Iron Works, it's a diesel hydraulic with 250 HP.
I wanted to get closer but a busy road and a rather brackish ditch (You know the type, the ones that look 3 inches deep, but are often 3ft deep) meant I had to shoot it from the other side of the road.
Category Photography / Scenery
Species Skunk
Size 1280 x 969px
File Size 1.74 MB
Listed in Folders
Thanks for sharing the pic! I'm sorry I have not had time to comment your photos, but I have been in the process of moving. The fact is that I was not aware of the existence of the CWRR's skunk mascot when I created Telbert. Telbert started out as feline, but I turned him into a skunk. I didn't find out about the CWRR's skunk mascot until years later.
i RODE the m-200 from willits over to ft brag on the cal western in 66, shortly after i graduated high school. that's was kind of my dad's graduation present to me. to take me over there. they had the m-100, 200, and 300 (m-80 had long since been scrapped). all running, and three baldwins they used to hall logs in and lumber out of the mill over there that they then interchanged with the s.p. at willits. they were only just getting into the steam thing. they just had the one very small drivered 2-8-2 that i forget where they'd gotten it from, but they had just started the steam super-skink service lass then a year before, and 3 ex erie stillwell coaches to pull behind it.
the M-x00's were all painted solid caterpillar yellow, with black lettering and trim.
i've got some pictures i took out the front, as the seats were like school bus seats and the front couple you could just look past the engineer and see out the front just fine.
i should probably post one now if i remember to. one shows a house next to the track with a little of the inside of the front of the car, (including the control box for the motorola communication radio, i think that's the one i'll post, because it shows what i'm saying). one shows this rabbit running down the middle of the tracks in front of us, that we must have chased for miles before it finally thought to jump off the tracks and get out of the way, and one had the reflection of my hand on the inside of the windshield approaching a tunnel that looks like my hand is coming toward us out of it, with a derailed cushioned underframe box car laying on its side next to the track beside it.
the M-x00's were all painted solid caterpillar yellow, with black lettering and trim.
i've got some pictures i took out the front, as the seats were like school bus seats and the front couple you could just look past the engineer and see out the front just fine.
i should probably post one now if i remember to. one shows a house next to the track with a little of the inside of the front of the car, (including the control box for the motorola communication radio, i think that's the one i'll post, because it shows what i'm saying). one shows this rabbit running down the middle of the tracks in front of us, that we must have chased for miles before it finally thought to jump off the tracks and get out of the way, and one had the reflection of my hand on the inside of the windshield approaching a tunnel that looks like my hand is coming toward us out of it, with a derailed cushioned underframe box car laying on its side next to the track beside it.
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