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Train loaded with lumber. People can be seen standing next to the engine and carts. Beckwourth Railroad Depot, Beckwourth, Plumas County. Shows first engine to pull a train into Plumas County, April 1895. Known as the Sierra Valley Railroad, operated and owned by Bowen and Company of San Francisco, who extended the rails from the Long Valley to Beckwourth into Clairville via the Chilcoot Grade, Bowen and company ran it for six years then sold to the NCORR which was as far as it was ever built. Later, it was sold to the WPRR who used it for the construction of the Western Pacific- Presented by Andrew P. Swingle to museum.
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