In response to my posting about Dunsmuir Hardware, etc. Dave wrote, “That must
have been the best place on earth for a kid to grow up, hanging out at the SP
dunsmuir yard and swimming at mossbrea falls?”
YES it was, although the river’s too cold, IMHO at Mossbrea; our family would
usually go down to Delta, and later as a teen, I’d go to Shiloa.
My layout plans are definitely influenced by my Dunsmuir childhood. IMHO, there
is NOTHING like the sound of a steam whistle echoing off the canyon! Old-timers
would tell me that they could tell when it was cold enough to snow by the
change in the whistles’ pitch.
Then there was the night I was startled by the gyra-light swooping up the
canyon wall before I could here the diesel rumbling. UFO????? YOICKS!!!
I am one of the fortunate ones, saw steam in the Canyon, Rode in the cab of the
25 and the 18 on the McCloud, rode the entire McCloud railroad in my speeder,
rode the Daylights and watched the stars through the vista-dome roof, actually
walked around inside the Dunsmuir Roundhouse (and can remember bits of it), and
rode the Delta Queen steamboat. These are all things that you cannot do today!
Now I’m depressed. . ..
S’
David D
PS, I’m threatening to write a book about growing up in Dunsmuir, as in many
ways we were in a time warp there.
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