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McCloud Railway
The McCloud Railway was a class III railroad operated around Mount Shasta, California. It began operations on July 1, 1992, when it took over operations from the McCloud River Railroad. The MCR was incorporated on April 21, 1992. The MCR provided both freight service as well as passenger excursion trains like the '' Shasta Sunset Dinner Train''. Freight traffic consisted of outbound lumber and forest products as well as diatomaceous earth. Approximately 3,000 carloads of freight (1996 estimate) were handled annually. The MCR interchanged with the Union Pacific (formerly Southern Pacific) at Mount Shasta, California, and the BNSF (formerly the Burlington Northern, née Great Northern Railway) at Lookout, California. On June 27, 2005, the railroad applied with the Surface Transportation Board to abandon all MCR track beyond east of McCloud. During the railroad's last stand during 2009 and 2010, their only source of revenue was due to the '' Shasta Sunset Dinner Train''. Howe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Locomotive Works
The American Locomotive Company (often shortened to ALCO, ALCo or Alco) was an American manufacturer of locomotives, diesel generators, steel, and tanks that operated from 1901 to 1969. The company was formed by the merger of seven smaller locomotive manufacturers and Schenectady Locomotive Engine Manufactory of Schenectady, New York. A subsidiary, American Locomotive Automobile Company, designed and manufactured automobiles under the Alco brand from 1905 to 1913. ALCO also produced nuclear reactors from 1954 to 1962. The company changed its name to Alco Products, Incorporated in 1955. In 1964, the Worthington Corporation acquired the company. The company went out of business in 1969. The ALCO name is currently being used by Fairbanks Morse Engine for their FM, ALCO line. Foundation and early history The company was created in 1901 from the merger of seven smaller locomotive manufacturers with Schenectady Locomotive Engine Manufactory of Schenectady, New York: *Brooks Locomo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McCloud RR Bartle Quad 1939
McCloud may refer to: Places *McCloud, California, a small town *McCloud High School, in the above town *McCloud River, California Fictional characters *Fox McCloud, the main character in the ''Star Fox'' series **Fox's father, List of characters in the Star Fox series#James McCloud *The title character of ''Brewster McCloud'', a 1970 film by Robert Altman *Sam McCloud, main character of McCloud (TV series), an American television police drama that aired from 1970 to 1977 *Louise "Lou" McCloud, from the television series ''The Young Riders'' *Ace McCloud, one of the main character from the television series ''The Centurions (TV series)'' *Fin McCloud, on the Teletoon Canadian animated sitcom ''Stoked (TV series)'' *Scott McCloud, the main character of the ''Space Angel'' cartoon series Other uses * McCloud (surname), an English-language surname * ''McCloud'' (TV series), an American television police drama that aired from 1970 to 1977 *McCloud Railway, a former railway which ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagion began around September and led to the Wall Street stock market crash of October 24 (Black Thursday). It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932, worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) fell by an estimated 15%. By comparison, worldwide GDP fell by less than 1% from 2008 to 2009 during the Great Recession. Some economies started to recover by the mid-1930s. However, in many countries, the negative effects of the Great Depression lasted until the beginning of World War II. Devastating effects were seen in both rich and poor countries with falling personal income, prices, tax revenues, and profits. International trade fell by more than 50%, unemployment in the U.S. rose to 23% and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Pacific Railroad
The Western Pacific Railroad was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was formed in 1903 as an attempt to break the near-monopoly the Southern Pacific Railroad had on rail service into northern California. WP's Feather River Route directly competed with SP's portion of the Overland Route for rail traffic between Salt Lake City/Ogden, Utah, and Oakland, California, for nearly 80 years. The Western Pacific was one of the original operators of the ''California Zephyr'' passenger line. In 1982, the Western Pacific was acquired by the Union Pacific Corporation and it was soon merged into their Union Pacific Railroad. History The original Western Pacific Railroad (1862–1870) was established in 1862 to build the westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad, between Sacramento and San Jose, California (later Oakland, California). After completing the last link from Sacramento to Oakland, this company was absorbed into the Central Pacific Railroad in 1870. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pit 3 Dam
Pit-3 Dam (also known as Pit Number Three Dam and Dam Number Three) is a hydroelectricity, hydroelectric dam on the Pit River in northern California in the United States. It forms Lake Britton, and is owned by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). Specifications Pit 3 is a curved concrete gravity dam with a height of and length of . The dam has a gated spillway with three steel gates and three inflatable rubber gates. An intake structure at the dam diverts water into a diameter, long tunnel that connects to the Pit 3 hydroelectric plant. There are three 23.3 Megawatt, MW generators, for a total capacity of 69.9 MW. Lake Britton, formerly known as Pit 3 Reservoir, has a maximum water level of ; however, the lake is usually kept below to avoid flooding parts of McArthur–Burney Falls Memorial State Park. The gross storage capacity is and the usable (active) storage is . The lake level changes on a weekly basis with greater drawdowns during the weekdays for power gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pit River
The Pit River is a major river draining from northeastern California into the state's Central Valley. The Pit, the Klamath and the Columbia are the only three rivers in the U.S. that cross the Cascade Range. The longest tributary of the Sacramento River, it contributes as much as eighty percent of their combined water volume into the Shasta Lake reservoir; the junction of their Shasta Lake arms is northeast of Shasta Dam. The main stem of the Pit River is long, and some water in the system flows to the Sacramento River measuring from the Pit River's longest source. The Pit River drains a sparsely populated volcanic highlands area in Modoc County's Warner Mountains, passing through the south end of the Cascade Range in a deep canyon northeast of Redding. The river is so named because of the semi-subterranean permanent winter homes and large 'sweat houses' that the Pit River Tribe dug, and their pit traps for game that came to water at the river. The river is a popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hydropower Plant
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined and also more than nuclear power. Hydropower can provide large amounts of low-carbon electricity on demand, making it a key element for creating secure and clean electricity supply systems. A hydroelectric power station that has a dam and reservoir is a flexible source, since the amount of electricity produced can be increased or decreased in seconds or minutes in response to varying electricity demand. Once a hydroelectric complex is constructed, it produces no direct waste, and almost always emits considerably less greenhouse gas than fossil fuel-powered energy plants. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an American investor-owned utility (IOU). The company is headquartered in the Pacific Gas & Electric Building, in San Francisco, California. PG&E provides natural gas and electricity to 5.2 million households in the northern two-thirds of California, from Bakersfield, California, Bakersfield and northern Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara County, almost to the Oregon and Nevada state lines. Overseen by the California Public Utilities Commission, PG&E is the leading subsidiary of the holding company PG&E Corporation, which has a market capitalization of $3.242 billion as of January 16, 2019. PG&E was established on October 10, 1905 from the merger and consolidation of predecessor utility companies, and by 1984 was the United States' "largest electric utility business". PG&E is one of six regulated, investor-owned electric utilities (IOUs) in California; the other five are PacifiCorp, Southern California Edison, San Dieg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sawmill
A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes (dimensional lumber). The "portable" sawmill is of simple operation. The log lies flat on a steel bed, and the motorized saw cuts the log horizontally along the length of the bed, by the operator manually pushing the saw. The most basic kind of sawmill consists of a chainsaw and a customized jig ("Alaskan sawmill"), with similar horizontal operation. Before the invention of the sawmill, boards were made in various manual ways, either rived (split) and planed, hewn, or more often hand sawn by two men with a whipsaw, one above and another in a saw pit below. The earliest known mechanical mill is the Hierapolis sawmill, a Roman water-powered stone mill at Hierapolis, Asia Minor dating back to the 3rd century AD. Other water-powered mills followe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Railway
A forest railway, forest tram, timber line, logging railway or logging railroad is a mode of railway transport which is used for forestry tasks, primarily the transportation of felling, felled logs to sawmills or railway stations. In most cases this form of transport utilised narrow gauges, and were temporary in nature, and in rough and sometimes difficult to access terrain. History Before the railway was invented, logs were transported in large numbers from the forest down rivers either freely or on wooden rafts. This was not without its problems and wood was often damaged in transit, lost in floods or stranded in shallow water. Suitable rivers were often unavailable in mountainous terrain. Simple wagonways, using horses and wooden rails, were used from the 18th century. However the invention of the steam locomotive and steel rails soon led to these being employed for forestry. However the difficult terrain within forests meant that narrow-gauge railways, which took up less s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MCR 18 Last Crew McCloud Aug7 2005xRP - Flickr - Drewj1946
MCR may refer to: Music * Modena City Ramblers, an Italian folk rock band * My Chemical Romance, an American rock band Organisations * Maryport and Carlisle Railway, M&CR, a pre-grouping British railway company * Midland Counties Railway, an early British railway company * Muslim Community Radio, a radio station based in London, UK * Middle common room, a postgraduate student organization * Marine Commando Regiment, Canada * Romandy Citizens' Movement (French: ''Mouvement Citoyens Romand''), Swiss political party Science * Methyl coenzyme M reductase, an enzyme that occurs in methanogenic archea * Micro Carbon Residue, a petroleum industry test * Mineralocorticoid receptor, a protein * Multi-component reaction, chemical reaction * Mutual Climatic Range, for determining past climate at an archaeological site Technology * Move to Coprocessor from Register, an ARM architecture CPU instruction * Critical Mach number (Mcr), in aeronautics * Maximum continuous rating, of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McCloud River Railroad Caboose
McCloud may refer to: Places *McCloud, California, a small town *McCloud High School, in the above town *McCloud River, California Fictional characters *Fox McCloud, the main character in the ''Star Fox'' series **Fox's father, List of characters in the Star Fox series#James McCloud *The title character of ''Brewster McCloud'', a 1970 film by Robert Altman *Sam McCloud, main character of McCloud (TV series), an American television police drama that aired from 1970 to 1977 *Louise "Lou" McCloud, from the television series ''The Young Riders'' *Ace McCloud, one of the main character from the television series ''The Centurions (TV series)'' *Fin McCloud, on the Teletoon Canadian animated sitcom ''Stoked (TV series)'' *Scott McCloud, the main character of the ''Space Angel'' cartoon series Other uses *McCloud (surname), an English-language surname * ''McCloud'' (TV series), an American television police drama that aired from 1970 to 1977 *McCloud Railway, a former railway which oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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