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McCloud River Railroad Company Locomotive #15 Baldwin 2-8-2 Built- 5/1907 c/n- 30851 Drivers- 48" Cylinders- 20x28 Weight- 179,000 lbs. Boiler pressure- 180 lbs. Tractive effort- 35,700 lbs. |
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| The #15 was around seven years old when the McCloud River Lumber Company featured it in one of their advertising postcards. |
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| The #15 posed with caboose #07. Photo courtesy of Heritage Junction Museum of McCloud, Inc. |
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| One more early photo of the #15, this one with a log train on one of the big trestles on Black Fox Mountain. |
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| A mid-career shot of the #15 on the McCloud turntable. Note the addition of the superheating and second air pump. |
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| The #15 sitting next to the sand house and sanding tower on 30 July 1946, with the roundhouse visible in the background. Bassler photo. |
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| The #15 in Mt. Shasta City on 28 August 1947. |
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| Guy Dunscomb caught the #15 working in the McCloud yards in almost perfect light on 2 September 1947. Note the addition of the powered reverse and that the number on the tender has just been repainted from its short mating to the #26. |
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| Robert Hanft shot this picture of the #15 in McCloud on 21 April 1948. |
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| An undated and uncredited image of the #15 in Pondosa late in its career. |
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| One last shot of the #15 on the McCloud turntable near the very end of its life. |
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| The #15 passing through Pittsburg, California, on 27 December 1949 on its way to scrap. |
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