Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad ( YMSPRR ) - is a historical railway in the USA, in the Sierra National Forest , Mariposa County , California . The road has a track width of 3 feet or 914 mm; there are two working steam locomotives.
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| A country | USA |
| City management | Toalemi |
| Site | ymsprr.com |
The road is located in a mountainous area, near the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park. Its name can literally be translated as “Yosemite Sugar Pine Mountain Railway”. Sugar Pine is the American common name for the Lambert pine .
History
Rudy Stauffer organized YMSPRR in 1961, using the track and rolling stock of the woodworking company, and he laid a line along the historic route of the woodworking company Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Company. The West Side Lumber Company (Tualemi, California) purchased the Lima Locomotive Works neck locomotive number 10, which was built in 1928.
After Rudi Stauffer's retirement, he was succeeded by his son, Max Stauffer, as the owner and operator of this road. In 1985, the West Neck Lumber Company acquired another Neck system locomotive at number 15. Both locomotives operate during the warm season, and in the off-season, Ford A serves railroad passengers, which has 10 seats for passengers.
Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Company, with YMSPRR along the narrow gauge railway, was founded in 1874 in Oakhurst in the present district of Madera . The company once had a large sawmill south of YMSPRR. There were 7 locomotives and 100 wagons on a road with a length of tracks and a logging mustache of 230 km. Then the road overloaded the forest and further transportation to the city of Madera at a distance of 87 km was carried out through a trench , by gravity, in fact it was a rafting . The company carried out clear cutting of trees and almost reduced the forests to naught.
The lack of trees suitable for felling and the great depression forced the company to close in 1931. To date, a new dense forest has grown over more than 80 years, only a few stumps remind of the old.
Rolling stock
- Steam locomotive of the Neck system No. 10 for a three-foot gauge. Built by Lima Locomotive Works ( Lima , Ohio ) for the Pickering Lumber Company on March 2, 1928. In 1934, acquired by West Side Lumber Company. It has tanks containing 4500 liters of oil and 12900 liters of water. By all accounts, this is the largest Neck steam engine ever built.
- Locomotive of the Neck system No. 15 for a three-foot gauge. Built by Lima for Norman P. Livermore & Company ( San Francisco ), originally had number 9, completed on May 20, 1913. The Sierra Nevada Wood & Lumber Co. was soon resold. It has tanks containing 3800 liters of oil and 7600 liters of water. In 1917, Hobart Estate Co. was acquired. In 1938, a steam locomotive buys Hyman-Michaels Co. from San Francisco and changes his number to 15. A year later, the engine acquires the West Side Lumber Company. In the 1960s, the West Side Lumber Company closed and the steam locomotive for operation with tourist trains acquired West Side & Cherry Valley. In addition, the engine managed to stand in the static exposition of the museum in Tualemi, until it was acquired in 1988 by YMSPRR.
- "Ford A" on the railway. Delivered on rail at West Side Lumber Company.
- Diesel locomotive No. 402 for a three-foot gauge, a central cabin and two hoods. YMSPRR does not use it in regular traffic.
- Locomotive No. 5 for a three-foot gauge. The biaxial shunting locomotive was built in 1935 and is currently inoperative.
In addition to locomotives, there are a number of forestry platforms on which benches for transported tourists are placed. The platforms are open, which allows photographers to find a good angle in any direction right while moving.