Along The Line:
Camp 2/Pondosa/Old Pondosa/Hambone
Camp 2/Pondosa
A partial view of the lumber company camp in the 1920s. Heritage Junction Museum of McCloud, Inc.

More of the original lumber company Pondosa camp. The cookhouse is to the left, and the square water tank is to the right of the square water car. The shop building would have been just out of view to the right. Heritage Junction Museum of McCloud, Inc.

One last view of the original camp. Heritage Junction Museum of McCloud, Inc.

The camp buildings loaded up for shipment to new Pondosa in 1927. Heritage Junction Museum of McCloud, Inc.

Old Pondosa/Hambone
An overnew of Hambone from the caboose of a Lookout bound freight, probably in the late 1930s. The raised building set at an angle to the tracks is the same structure seen two photos above, the Great Northern used it to house their offices in the camp. T.E. Glover.

The body of Caboose #015 turned into a shower building and one of the carbodies GN brought in for use as a house. T.E. Glover.

A portion of the stock yards are visible to the right of the #24. Jeff Moore collection.

#26 and #19 lead a Lookout bound freight into Hambone around 1947. Jeff Moore collection.

The body of GN combination car #530 converted to a handcar shed after the line change bypassed the original yard. Pacific Northwest Virtual Logging Data Center.

Looking south through the old yard after the line change. Pacific Northwest Virtual Logging Data Center.
John Hungerford shot this view looking north along the old mainline on 23 May 1964. Jeff Moore collection.

Hambone in Modern Times
The #24 and a caboose laying over in Hambone. Jeff Moore collection.
The modern day repeat of the above view in 2006. Jeff Moore.
The collapsed remnants of the old GN/McCloud River Lumber Company office building. Jeff Moore.
The slab base of the old lumber company shop building in Hambone. Jeff Moore.
The base of the old fuel oil tank from the lumber company camp days in Hambone. Jeff Moore.
A pole from the old telephone line next to the original main line grade. The section shed in the distance is adjacent to the modern alignment. Jeff Moore.
The post-1956 alignment through Hambone as it appeared in 1982.. The new mainline cut across the base of the old balloon track that once existed north of the former camp, which is out of view to the right. Prior to the line change a curving track connected the yard with the mainline to the east. John A. Dixon photo, Jeff Moore collection.
The #39 passing through Hambone on the revised line with an eastbound freight bound for Lookout. © Mike Woodruff.
#37 leading a westbound train through Hambone in June 2000. Travis Berryman photo.
The #37 heading for Lookout in 2003. Roger Titus photo.
Stored boxcars filling the Hambone siding in 2004. Jeff Moore.

The Hambone section shed in 2006. The signs piled next to the building are from the Hambone to Lookout line, BNSF piled them here while scrapping out that line. Jeff Moore.