California Western #M200

Technical Data

Builder Skagit Steel & Iron Works, MAC Division
Date January 1926
Type 6-46
Wheel Arrangemnt B-B (Only rear truck powered)
Power Diesel-Hydraulic
Gross Weight 21 tons

History

  • Built new as Longview, Portland and Northern Railway #20, Longview, WA

  • Trona Railway #22, Trona, CA

  • Acquired by California Western Railroad in 1941 as #M200, Fort Bragg, CA

  • Acquired, unserviceable, by PLA, July 1975

  • Restored to service, used on CPRY to 1985.

  • Inaugurated passenger service on NCRY May 21, 1988.

  • In service, Brightside, CA

  • Looking through the front windows.
  • Operator’s controls including hand brake wheel.
  • Front of the M200.
  • A view of the passenger compartment looking toward the front.
  • The operator’s controls.
  • Looking into the passenger compartment from the rear compartment.
  • Looking toward the back across the passenger compartment.
  • Another view of the passenger compartment looking from the back to the front.
Images of the restored M200 taken during the 30th Anniversary Celebration of our Niles Canyon Railway on May 20, 2018
Photographs by: Christopher R. Hauf

Take a look around inside the M200 passenger and operator’s area.
Use your mouse to spin around this 360 degree view.

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