The Setting:
MP 466 on the Lake County Railroad

The Players, in Alphabetical Order:
Donald Alves as the MNRR Equipment Operator
Craig Bass as the Photographer and Narrator
Don Blansett as the MNRR General Superintendent
John Carswell as the MNRR Track Foreman
Chris Colt as the MNRR M.O.W. Laborer
Richard Gates as the MNRR Engineer
Karl Huffaker, P.E. as the MNRR Track Structures Engineer
Josh McClain as the MNRR Conductor
Fred Mitchell as the MNRR Signal Maintainer
Don Ringham as the RFC Equipment Operator

ACT I

SCENE I
At MP 466 on the morning of Thursday, April 20, 2006

A portion of trackside embankment along the Pit River has washed out on the Lake County Railroad at MP 466, basically stranding MNRR 7780 and several freight cars on the north end.  On April 20, 2006, crews arrived at this location, a hundred yards or so south of historic Chimney Rock, to begin dumping rock into the hole to shore up the embankment. 

The washout:

Photo # 4-20-06-01

Chimney Rock:

Photo # 4-20-06-1369

The historical marker plaque on Chimney Rock:

Photo # 4-20-06-1370

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