Arcata and Mad River Railroad - Revision history

https://www.pacificng.com/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Arcata_and_Mad_River_Railroad Arcata and Mad River Railroad - Revision history 2026-09-09T19:22:00Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.37.1 https://www.pacificng.com/w/index.php?title=Arcata_and_Mad_River_Railroad&diff=5826&oldid=prev John Hall at 23:22, 18 August 2026 2026-08-18T23:22:41Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:22, 18 August 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l32">Line 32:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 32:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Disaster struck the Arcata & Mad River Railroad on September 13, 1896 when rotten needle beams of the Mad River Bridge gave way and dropped a locomotive and passenger car to the gravel bed of the river below.<ref>''The Humboldt Times'' September 15, 1896, page 4</ref> Five were killed and many injured. The passenger car was the second class ex-SC&F coach. It was totally demolished. The Korbels took responsibility and attempted settlements with the injured and families of the killed. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Disaster struck the Arcata & Mad River Railroad on September 13, 1896 when rotten needle beams of the Mad River Bridge gave way and dropped a locomotive and passenger car to the gravel bed of the river below.<ref>''The Humboldt Times'' September 15, 1896, page 4</ref> Five were killed and many injured. The passenger car was the second class ex-SC&F coach. It was totally demolished. The Korbels took responsibility and attempted settlements with the injured and families of the killed. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Between the bridge disaster in 1896 and 1917 two additional passenger cars were added to the roster.<ref>1917 ICC Railroad Valuation Reports for the Arcata and Mad River Railroad.</ref> They were ex-''Geary St and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ferries</del>'' coaches used on a San Francisco street railroad. In Stanley T. Borden's book listed below there is a photograph on page 25 of one of these coaches. It is erroneously captioned as being a Carter Bros. built coach. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Between the bridge disaster in 1896 and 1917 two additional passenger cars were added to the roster.<ref>1917 ICC Railroad Valuation Reports for the Arcata and Mad River Railroad.</ref> They were ex-''Geary St<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, Park </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ocean Railroad</ins>'' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(GSP&O) </ins>coaches used on a San Francisco street railroad. In Stanley T. Borden's book listed below there is a photograph on page 25 of one of these coaches. It is erroneously captioned as being a Carter Bros. built coach. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In April 1900 the standard gauge California Northern Railroad was organized to connect the standard gauge Eureka and Klamath River Railroad in Arcata to the city of Eureka. The E&KR was the successor of John Vance’s standard gauge Mad River & Humboldt Bay Railroad. The MR&HB was built prior to the A&MR between Vance’s mill on the north side of the Mad river and a slough off of Humboldt Bay. John Vance’s children incorporated the MR&HB as the E&KR and rebuilt the railroad to connect to Humboldt Bay roughly paralleling the A&MR through Arcata. The E&KR crossed the A&MR once near Mad River and again just entering town then the CN crossed the A&MR in the marsh just north of the end of the A&MR wharf. The A&MR and E&KR ran side by side for approximately 1.3 miles just south of the Mad River. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In April 1900 the standard gauge California Northern Railroad was organized to connect the standard gauge Eureka and Klamath River Railroad in Arcata to the city of Eureka. The E&KR was the successor of John Vance’s standard gauge Mad River & Humboldt Bay Railroad. The MR&HB was built prior to the A&MR between Vance’s mill on the north side of the Mad river and a slough off of Humboldt Bay. John Vance’s children incorporated the MR&HB as the E&KR and rebuilt the railroad to connect to Humboldt Bay roughly paralleling the A&MR through Arcata. The E&KR crossed the A&MR once near Mad River and again just entering town then the CN crossed the A&MR in the marsh just north of the end of the A&MR wharf. The A&MR and E&KR ran side by side for approximately 1.3 miles just south of the Mad River. </div></td></tr> </table>

John Hall https://www.pacificng.com/w/index.php?title=Arcata_and_Mad_River_Railroad&diff=5825&oldid=prev John Hall at 16:31, 18 August 2026 2026-08-18T16:31:57Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:31, 18 August 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l18">Line 18:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 18:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><span style="float:right">[[File:A&MR_map.jpg|400px|frame|Map of the A&MR Railroad]]</span></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><span style="float:right">[[File:A&MR_map.jpg|400px|frame|Map of the A&MR Railroad]]</span></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>January 1883 saw the introduction of the first enclosed passenger car on the railroad. It was built in Arcata by Theodore Dean a local carpenter. It replaced the canvas covered car previously used to move passengers between the wharf and Arcata.<ref>''The Daily Eureka Times-Telephone'' January 3, 1883, page 3</ref> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>January 1883 saw the introduction of the first enclosed passenger car on the railroad. It was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a combine </ins>built in Arcata by Theodore Dean a local carpenter. It replaced the canvas covered car previously used to move passengers between the wharf and Arcata.<ref>''The Daily Eureka Times-Telephone'' January 3, 1883, page 3</ref> </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Korbel brothers, Anthony, Francis, and Joseph, cigar box manufacturers and photo engravers in San Francisco,<ref>''Langley’s San Francisco Directory, April 1883,'' page 632</ref> had exhausted their redwood timber holdings in Sonoma County and began a vineyard and winery.<ref>''The Sonoma Democrat Supplement'', June 28, 1884, page 1 </ref> Cigar boxes still needed redwood so they purchased timber land near the confluence of the north fork and main reach of the Mad River. Their plan was to build a lumber mill and ship redwood lumber south for the box factory and lumber markets in San Francisco. Francis and Anthony Korbel and others incorporated the Humboldt Lumber Mill Company March 23, 1883.<ref>''The Eureka Daily Times-Telephone'', January 6, 1884, page 3</ref> To get the lumber to market they needed a reliable method of transportation and purchased the Arcata & Mad River Railroad April 1, 1883.<ref> ''The Daily Eureka Times-Telephone'' March 25, 1883, page 2</ref> The Korbel’s reincorporated the A&MR June 12, 1883 increasing the capitalization from $60,000 to $300,000. <ref> ''The Daily Eureka Times-Telephone'' January 6, 1884, page 3</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Korbel brothers, Anthony, Francis, and Joseph, cigar box manufacturers and photo engravers in San Francisco,<ref>''Langley’s San Francisco Directory, April 1883,'' page 632</ref> had exhausted their redwood timber holdings in Sonoma County and began a vineyard and winery.<ref>''The Sonoma Democrat Supplement'', June 28, 1884, page 1 </ref> Cigar boxes still needed redwood so they purchased timber land near the confluence of the north fork and main reach of the Mad River. Their plan was to build a lumber mill and ship redwood lumber south for the box factory and lumber markets in San Francisco. Francis and Anthony Korbel and others incorporated the Humboldt Lumber Mill Company March 23, 1883.<ref>''The Eureka Daily Times-Telephone'', January 6, 1884, page 3</ref> To get the lumber to market they needed a reliable method of transportation and purchased the Arcata & Mad River Railroad April 1, 1883.<ref> ''The Daily Eureka Times-Telephone'' March 25, 1883, page 2</ref> The Korbel’s reincorporated the A&MR June 12, 1883 increasing the capitalization from $60,000 to $300,000. <ref> ''The Daily Eureka Times-Telephone'' January 6, 1884, page 3</ref></div></td></tr> </table>

John Hall https://www.pacificng.com/w/index.php?title=Arcata_and_Mad_River_Railroad&diff=5824&oldid=prev John Hall at 16:20, 18 August 2026 2026-08-18T16:20:50Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:20, 18 August 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l31">Line 31:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 31:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Disaster struck the Arcata & Mad River Railroad on September 13, 1896 when rotten needle beams of the Mad River Bridge gave way and dropped a locomotive and passenger car to the gravel bed of the river below.<ref>''The Humboldt Times'' September 15, 1896, page 4</ref> Five were killed and many injured. The passenger car was the second class ex-SC&F coach. It was totally demolished. The Korbels took responsibility and attempted settlements with the injured and families of the killed. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Disaster struck the Arcata & Mad River Railroad on September 13, 1896 when rotten needle beams of the Mad River Bridge gave way and dropped a locomotive and passenger car to the gravel bed of the river below.<ref>''The Humboldt Times'' September 15, 1896, page 4</ref> Five were killed and many injured. The passenger car was the second class ex-SC&F coach. It was totally demolished. The Korbels took responsibility and attempted settlements with the injured and families of the killed. </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Between the bridge disaster in 1896 and 1917 two additional passenger cars were added to the roster.<ref>1917 ICC Railroad Valuation Reports for the Arcata and Mad River Railroad.</ref> They were ex-''Geary St and Ferries'' coaches used on a San Francisco street railroad. In Stanley T. Borden's book listed below there is a photograph on page 25 of one of these coaches. It is erroneously captioned as being a Carter Bros. built coach. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In April 1900 the standard gauge California Northern Railroad was organized to connect the standard gauge Eureka and Klamath River Railroad in Arcata to the city of Eureka. The E&KR was the successor of John Vance’s standard gauge Mad River & Humboldt Bay Railroad. The MR&HB was built prior to the A&MR between Vance’s mill on the north side of the Mad river and a slough off of Humboldt Bay. John Vance’s children incorporated the MR&HB as the E&KR and rebuilt the railroad to connect to Humboldt Bay roughly paralleling the A&MR through Arcata. The E&KR crossed the A&MR once near Mad River and again just entering town then the CN crossed the A&MR in the marsh just north of the end of the A&MR wharf. The A&MR and E&KR ran side by side for approximately 1.3 miles just south of the Mad River. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In April 1900 the standard gauge California Northern Railroad was organized to connect the standard gauge Eureka and Klamath River Railroad in Arcata to the city of Eureka. The E&KR was the successor of John Vance’s standard gauge Mad River & Humboldt Bay Railroad. The MR&HB was built prior to the A&MR between Vance’s mill on the north side of the Mad river and a slough off of Humboldt Bay. John Vance’s children incorporated the MR&HB as the E&KR and rebuilt the railroad to connect to Humboldt Bay roughly paralleling the A&MR through Arcata. The E&KR crossed the A&MR once near Mad River and again just entering town then the CN crossed the A&MR in the marsh just north of the end of the A&MR wharf. The A&MR and E&KR ran side by side for approximately 1.3 miles just south of the Mad River. </div></td></tr> </table>

John Hall https://www.pacificng.com/w/index.php?title=Arcata_and_Mad_River_Railroad&diff=5823&oldid=prev John Hall at 15:58, 18 August 2026 2026-08-18T15:58:43Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 08:58, 18 August 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l18">Line 18:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 18:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><span style="float:right">[[File:A&MR_map.jpg|400px|frame|Map of the A&MR Railroad]]</span></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><span style="float:right">[[File:A&MR_map.jpg|400px|frame|Map of the A&MR Railroad]]</span></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>January 1883 saw the introduction of the first enclosed passenger car on the railroad. It was built in Arcata by Theodore Dean a local carpenter. It replaced the canvas covered car previously used to move passengers between the wharf and Arcata.<ref>''The Daily Eureka Times-Telephone'' January 3, 1883, page 3</ref> <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>January 1883 saw the introduction of the first enclosed passenger car on the railroad. It was built in Arcata by Theodore Dean a local carpenter. It replaced the canvas covered car previously used to move passengers between the wharf and Arcata.<ref>''The Daily Eureka Times-Telephone'' January 3, 1883, page 3</ref> </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Korbel brothers, Anthony, Francis, and Joseph, cigar box manufacturers and photo engravers in San Francisco,<ref>''Langley’s San Francisco Directory, April 1883,'' page 632</ref> had exhausted their redwood timber holdings in Sonoma County and began a vineyard and winery.<ref>''The Sonoma Democrat Supplement'', June 28, 1884, page 1 </ref> Cigar boxes still needed redwood so they purchased timber land near the confluence of the north fork and main reach of the Mad River. Their plan was to build a lumber mill and ship redwood lumber south for the box factory and lumber markets in San Francisco. Francis and Anthony Korbel and others incorporated the Humboldt Lumber Mill Company March 23, 1883.<ref>''The Eureka Daily Times-Telephone'', January 6, 1884, page 3</ref> To get the lumber to market they needed a reliable method of transportation and purchased the Arcata & Mad River Railroad April 1, 1883.<ref> ''The Daily Eureka Times-Telephone'' March 25, 1883, page 2</ref> The Korbel’s reincorporated the A&MR June 12, 1883 increasing the capitalization from $60,000 to $300,000. <ref> ''The Daily Eureka Times-Telephone'' January 6, 1884, page 3</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Korbel brothers, Anthony, Francis, and Joseph, cigar box manufacturers and photo engravers in San Francisco,<ref>''Langley’s San Francisco Directory, April 1883,'' page 632</ref> had exhausted their redwood timber holdings in Sonoma County and began a vineyard and winery.<ref>''The Sonoma Democrat Supplement'', June 28, 1884, page 1 </ref> Cigar boxes still needed redwood so they purchased timber land near the confluence of the north fork and main reach of the Mad River. Their plan was to build a lumber mill and ship redwood lumber south for the box factory and lumber markets in San Francisco. Francis and Anthony Korbel and others incorporated the Humboldt Lumber Mill Company March 23, 1883.<ref>''The Eureka Daily Times-Telephone'', January 6, 1884, page 3</ref> To get the lumber to market they needed a reliable method of transportation and purchased the Arcata & Mad River Railroad April 1, 1883.<ref> ''The Daily Eureka Times-Telephone'' March 25, 1883, page 2</ref> The Korbel’s reincorporated the A&MR June 12, 1883 increasing the capitalization from $60,000 to $300,000. <ref> ''The Daily Eureka Times-Telephone'' January 6, 1884, page 3</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In June construction began on the 500 foot long Mad River Bridge and the new mill at North Fork. The bridge had three 165 foot spans and a short truss on the north shore. Throughout the Summer and Fall four-wheel lumber cars were constructed, turntables installed, the bridge was finished, the steamship ''Alta'' was refitted, new track was laid and wooden rails were replaced with 25 pound iron rails. In August a new 0-4-4T locomotive arrived from the Golden State and Miners’ Iron Works in San Francisco.<ref>''The Eureka Daily Times-Telephone'', August 16, 1883, page 3</ref> On January 16, 1884 the first regular mixed train began running between Arcata wharf and North Fork, later to be renamed Korbel. The Porter locomotive would pull the train along the wharf to the Arcata depot then the larger Golden State locomotive would take the train to North Fork.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In June construction began on the 500 foot long Mad River Bridge and the new mill at North Fork. The bridge had three 165 foot spans and a short truss on the north shore. Throughout the Summer and Fall four-wheel lumber cars were constructed, turntables installed, the bridge was finished, the steamship ''Alta'' was refitted, new track was laid and wooden rails were replaced with 25 pound iron rails. In August a new 0-4-4T locomotive arrived from the Golden State and Miners’ Iron Works in San Francisco.<ref>''The Eureka Daily Times-Telephone'', August 16, 1883, page 3<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ref> A new Carter Bros. built coach was added to the fleet.<ref>''The Eureka Daily Times-Telephone'', May 8, 1883, page 3</ref> <ref>The original coach in the collection of the Railroad Museum at Ardenwood, Fremont, California 2025.</ins></ref> On January 16, 1884 the first regular mixed train began running between Arcata wharf and North Fork, later to be renamed Korbel. The Porter locomotive would pull the train along the wharf to the Arcata depot then the larger Golden State locomotive would take the train to North Fork.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1887 the Arcata depot was rebuilt by Theodore Dean so that the passengers had their own building and did not have to wait in the freight shed.<ref>''The Daily Humboldt Times'', July 3, 1887, page 3</ref> The Arcata & Mad River Railroad had expanded to its ultimate passenger carrying limits, Arcata to Korbel, and settled down to normal operations. The freight carried included lumber, shingles, shakes, posts, tan bark, cord wood, wool, and potatoes. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1887 the Arcata depot was rebuilt by Theodore Dean so that the passengers had their own building and did not have to wait in the freight shed.<ref>''The Daily Humboldt Times'', July 3, 1887, page 3</ref> The Arcata & Mad River Railroad had expanded to its ultimate passenger carrying limits, Arcata to Korbel, and settled down to normal operations. The freight carried included lumber, shingles, shakes, posts, tan bark, cord wood, wool, and potatoes. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Just as the Arcata depot was completed the railroad was extended to serve the new Riverside Lumber Mill on the Mad River just south of Korbel. With freight traffic expanding a more powerful locomotive was ordered from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. It was necessary to rebuild the Mad River bridge to handle the new locomotive’s weight.<ref>''The Daily Humboldt Times'' January 22, 1888, page 2</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Just as the Arcata depot was completed the railroad was extended to serve the new Riverside Lumber Mill on the Mad River just south of Korbel. With freight traffic expanding a more powerful locomotive was ordered from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. It was necessary to rebuild the Mad River bridge to handle the new locomotive’s weight.<ref>''The Daily Humboldt Times'' January 22, 1888, page 2<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ref> Two used passenger coaches were added to the roster in June 1890. They were the 1876 Carter Brothers built first and second class coaches of the Santa Cruz & Felton Railroad, purchased from the [[South Pacific Coast Railway]].<ref>''The Daily Humboldt Times'', June 3, 1890, page 3.</ins></ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1895 there were five active locomotives. ''Black Diamond'' had been relegated to pumping water and powering the machine shop.<ref>''The Eureka Daily Times-Telephone'', July 12, 1883, page 3</ref> A second Golden State & Miners Iron Works 0-4-2, a Baldwin 2-4-0, and a locomotive named “Gypsy” that worked the timber land. It was a Marshutz & Cantrell National Iron Works Dolbeer 0-4-0T with integrated winch.<ref>Photographic evidence at the Riverside Mill.</ref> </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1895 there were five active locomotives. ''Black Diamond'' had been relegated to pumping water and powering the machine shop.<ref>''The Eureka Daily Times-Telephone'', July 12, 1883, page 3</ref> A second Golden State & Miners Iron Works 0-4-2, a Baldwin 2-4-0, and a locomotive named “Gypsy” that worked the timber land. It was a Marshutz & Cantrell National Iron Works Dolbeer 0-4-0T with integrated winch.<ref>Photographic evidence at the Riverside Mill.</ref> </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Disaster struck the Arcata & Mad River Railroad on September 13, 1896 when rotten needle beams of the Mad River Bridge gave way and dropped a locomotive and passenger car to the gravel bed of the river below.<ref>''The Humboldt Times'' September 15, 1896, page 4</ref> Five were killed and many injured. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>The Korbels took responsibility and attempted settlements with the injured and families of the killed. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Disaster struck the Arcata & Mad River Railroad on September 13, 1896 when rotten needle beams of the Mad River Bridge gave way and dropped a locomotive and passenger car to the gravel bed of the river below.<ref>''The Humboldt Times'' September 15, 1896, page 4</ref> Five were killed and many injured. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The passenger car was the second class ex-SC&F coach. It was totally demolished. </ins>The Korbels took responsibility and attempted settlements with the injured and families of the killed. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In April 1900 the standard gauge California Northern Railroad was organized to connect the standard gauge Eureka and Klamath River Railroad in Arcata to the city of Eureka. The E&KR was the successor of John Vance’s standard gauge Mad River & Humboldt Bay Railroad. The MR&HB was built prior to the A&MR between Vance’s mill on the north side of the Mad river and a slough off of Humboldt Bay. John Vance’s children incorporated the MR&HB as the E&KR and rebuilt the railroad to connect to Humboldt Bay roughly paralleling the A&MR through Arcata. The E&KR crossed the A&MR once near Mad River and again just entering town then the CN crossed the A&MR in the marsh just north of the end of the A&MR wharf. The A&MR and E&KR ran side by side for approximately 1.3 miles just south of the Mad River. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In April 1900 the standard gauge California Northern Railroad was organized to connect the standard gauge Eureka and Klamath River Railroad in Arcata to the city of Eureka. The E&KR was the successor of John Vance’s standard gauge Mad River & Humboldt Bay Railroad. The MR&HB was built prior to the A&MR between Vance’s mill on the north side of the Mad river and a slough off of Humboldt Bay. John Vance’s children incorporated the MR&HB as the E&KR and rebuilt the railroad to connect to Humboldt Bay roughly paralleling the A&MR through Arcata. The E&KR crossed the A&MR once near Mad River and again just entering town then the CN crossed the A&MR in the marsh just north of the end of the A&MR wharf. The A&MR and E&KR ran side by side for approximately 1.3 miles just south of the Mad River. </div></td></tr> </table>

John Hall https://www.pacificng.com/w/index.php?title=Arcata_and_Mad_River_Railroad&diff=5777&oldid=prev John Hall: /* Reference Material Available Online */ 2025-05-07T15:56:59Z

<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Reference Material Available Online</span></span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 08:56, 7 May 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l54">Line 54:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 54:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>====Equipment Rosters====</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>====Equipment Rosters====</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:[[Narrow Gauge Locomotives of the Arcata & Mad River and the Northern Redwood Lumber Co. Railroads]]<br></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:[[Narrow Gauge Locomotives of the Arcata & Mad River and the Northern Redwood Lumber Co. Railroads]]<br></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:[[Rolling Stock of the Arcata & Mad River Railroad]]<br></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rolling Stock of the Arcata and Mad River Railroad|</ins>Rolling Stock of the Arcata & Mad River Railroad]]<br></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:[[Steam ships of the Arcata & Mad River Railroad]]<br></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Steam ships of the Arcata and Mad River Railroad|</ins>Steam ships of the Arcata & Mad River Railroad]]<br></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>====Photographs of the A&MR Railroad====</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>====Photographs of the A&MR Railroad====</div></td></tr> </table>

John Hall https://www.pacificng.com/w/index.php?title=Arcata_and_Mad_River_Railroad&diff=5776&oldid=prev John Hall at 02:30, 7 May 2025 2025-05-07T02:30:34Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:30, 6 May 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l44">Line 44:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 44:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As the Mad River extension of the A&MR continued the grades got steeper in order to access the timber on the slopes of the river valley. The Northern Redwood Railroad began to purchase Heisler locomotives. The first arrived in May 1909. It was a 35-ton locomotive. <ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' May 15, 1909, page 4</ref> The second, arrived in April 1910, was also 35 tons. <ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' April 23, 1910, page 4</ref> The third, arrived in July 1911, was a 55 ton locomotive.<ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' July 1, 1911, page 1</ref> The last, arrived in March 1923 was a 40 ton locomotive.<ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' March 10, 1923, page 1</ref> The Heislers were all 45¼ inch narrow gauge locomotives. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As the Mad River extension of the A&MR continued the grades got steeper in order to access the timber on the slopes of the river valley. The Northern Redwood Railroad began to purchase Heisler locomotives. The first arrived in May 1909. It was a 35-ton locomotive. <ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' May 15, 1909, page 4</ref> The second, arrived in April 1910, was also 35 tons. <ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' April 23, 1910, page 4</ref> The third, arrived in July 1911, was a 55 ton locomotive.<ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' July 1, 1911, page 1</ref> The last, arrived in March 1923 was a 40 ton locomotive.<ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' March 10, 1923, page 1</ref> The Heislers were all 45¼ inch narrow gauge locomotives. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">May </del>1925, to eliminate the awkward transfer of lumber at Janes Creek, the future Korblex, a third rail was installed along the A&MR from Korblex to Korbel. <ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">May 23</del>, 1925, page <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1</del></ref> The narrow gauge locomotives were fit with multiple coupler pockets to accommodate both narrow and standard gauge rolling stock. Passenger service continued from Korbel to Arcata using narrow gauge equipment. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">August </ins>1925, to eliminate the awkward transfer of lumber at Janes Creek, the future Korblex, a third rail was installed along the A&MR from Korblex to Korbel. <ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">August 1</ins>, 1925, page <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">8</ins></ref> The narrow gauge locomotives were fit with multiple coupler pockets to accommodate both narrow and standard gauge rolling stock. Passenger service continued from Korbel to Arcata using narrow gauge equipment. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the addition of the standard gauge rail, things began to change for the A&MR. New standard gauge logging cars and a standard gauge locomotive were acquired for the new standard gauge extension up the North Fork of Mad River. The 96 ton locomotive built in Pennsylvania arrived in January 1927.<ref>''The Blue Lake Advocate'' January 15, 1927, page 1</ref> The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">newspaper article did not identify </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">locomotive manufacturer but a Heisler would make sense as </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">North Fork extension was up a steep canyon with switchbacks</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the addition of the standard gauge rail, things began to change for the A&MR. New standard gauge logging cars and a standard gauge locomotive were acquired for the new standard gauge extension up the North Fork of Mad River. The 96 ton <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Alco 2-8-2T </ins>locomotive built in Pennsylvania arrived in January 1927.<ref>''The Blue Lake Advocate'' January 15, 1927, page 1</ref> The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">narrow gauge logging railroad up </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">main reach of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mad River remained</ins>. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The end of the narrow gauge was not far away. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However narrow gauge freight trains were still delivering lumber to the Arcata Wharf as late as August 1929. In two more months </del>the stock market <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">would crash </del>plunging the country into severe depression reducing the demand for lumber. Automobiles and buses were diverting passengers from the Arcata to Korbel line. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Finally on </del>June 6, 1931 the last passenger train ran on the A&MR.<ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' June 6, 1931, page 1</ref> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The end of the narrow gauge was not far away. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> By this time </ins>the stock market <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had crashed </ins>plunging the country into severe depression reducing the demand for lumber. Automobiles and buses were diverting passengers from the Arcata to Korbel line. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On </ins>June 6, 1931 the last passenger train ran on the A&MR.<ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' June 6, 1931<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, page 1</ref> However narrow gauge freight trains were still delivering lumber to the Arcata Wharf as late as September 1933.<ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' September 23, 1933</ins>, page 1</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Lumber mills were shut down; sometimes temporarily reactivated and shut down again. The dual gauge railroad remained between Korblex and Korbel until February 1942 when it was reworked to standard gauge. The narrow gauge rails between Arcata and Korblex were removed. <ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' April 18, 1942, page 1</ref> The A&MR and Northern Redwood Lumber were now standard gauge railroads.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Lumber mills were shut down; sometimes temporarily reactivated and shut down again. The dual gauge railroad remained between Korblex and Korbel until February 1942 when it was reworked to standard gauge. The narrow gauge rails between Arcata and Korblex were removed. <ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' April 18<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, 1942, page 1</ref> The rails up the Mad River were reworked and inclines removed.<ref>''Blue Lake Advocate'' February 14</ins>, 1942, page 1</ref> The A&MR and Northern Redwood Lumber were now standard gauge railroads.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Reference Material Available Online==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Reference Material Available Online==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>====Equipment Rosters====</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>====Equipment Rosters====</div></td></tr> </table>

John Hall https://www.pacificng.com/w/index.php?title=Arcata_and_Mad_River_Railroad&diff=5246&oldid=prev John Hall at 23:21, 23 January 2024 2024-01-23T23:21:19Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:21, 23 January 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l28">Line 28:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 28:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Just as the Arcata depot was completed the railroad was extended to serve the new Riverside Lumber Mill on the Mad River just south of Korbel. With freight traffic expanding a more powerful locomotive was ordered from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. It was necessary to rebuild the Mad River bridge to handle the new locomotive’s weight.<ref>''The Daily Humboldt Times'' January 22, 1888, page 2</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Just as the Arcata depot was completed the railroad was extended to serve the new Riverside Lumber Mill on the Mad River just south of Korbel. With freight traffic expanding a more powerful locomotive was ordered from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. It was necessary to rebuild the Mad River bridge to handle the new locomotive’s weight.<ref>''The Daily Humboldt Times'' January 22, 1888, page 2</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1895 there were five active locomotives. ''Black Diamond'' had been relegated to pumping water and powering the machine shop.<ref>''The Eureka Daily Times-Telephone'', July 12, 1883, page 3</ref> A second Golden State & Miners Iron Works 0-4-2, a Baldwin 2-4-0, and a locomotive named “Gypsy” <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">filled out the roster. The “Gypsy,” </del>worked the timber land. It was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">probably a either a Golden State & Miners Iron Works locomotive with integrated winch<ref>''The Daily Eureka Times-Telephone'' July 12, 1883, page 3</ref> or </del>a Marshutz & Cantrell National Iron Works 0-4-0T with integrated winch.<ref>Photographic evidence at the Riverside Mill.</ref> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1895 there were five active locomotives. ''Black Diamond'' had been relegated to pumping water and powering the machine shop.<ref>''The Eureka Daily Times-Telephone'', July 12, 1883, page 3</ref> A second Golden State & Miners Iron Works 0-4-2, a Baldwin 2-4-0, and a locomotive named “Gypsy” <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that </ins>worked the timber land. It was a Marshutz & Cantrell National Iron Works <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dolbeer </ins>0-4-0T with integrated winch.<ref>Photographic evidence at the Riverside Mill.</ref> </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Disaster struck the Arcata & Mad River Railroad on September 13, 1896 when rotten needle beams of the Mad River Bridge gave way and dropped a locomotive and passenger car to the gravel bed of the river below.<ref>''The Humboldt Times'' September 15, 1896, page 4</ref> Five were killed and many injured. The Korbels took responsibility and attempted settlements with the injured and families of the killed. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Disaster struck the Arcata & Mad River Railroad on September 13, 1896 when rotten needle beams of the Mad River Bridge gave way and dropped a locomotive and passenger car to the gravel bed of the river below.<ref>''The Humboldt Times'' September 15, 1896, page 4</ref> Five were killed and many injured. The Korbels took responsibility and attempted settlements with the injured and families of the killed. </div></td></tr> </table>

John Hall https://www.pacificng.com/w/index.php?title=Arcata_and_Mad_River_Railroad&diff=4967&oldid=prev John Hall at 05:29, 22 January 2023 2023-01-22T05:29:57Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:29, 21 January 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l71">Line 71:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 71:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_California|California]] / [[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_California#Common Carrier|Common Carrier]] / [[Arcata and Mad River Railroad]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_California|California]] / [[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_California#Common Carrier|Common Carrier]] / [[Arcata and Mad River Railroad]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:45.25in Gauge Railroads|45.25in]] [[Category:Porter Locomotives]] [[Category:Baldwin Locomotives]] [[Category:Cordwood]] [[Category:Logging]] [[Category:Lumber]] [[Category:Potatoes]] [[Category:Wool]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:45.25in Gauge Railroads|45.25in]] [[Category:Porter Locomotives]] [[Category:Baldwin Locomotives<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] [[Category:Carter Brothers</ins>]] [[Category:Cordwood]] [[Category:Logging]] [[Category:Lumber]] [[Category:Potatoes]] [[Category:Wool]]</div></td></tr> </table>

John Hall https://www.pacificng.com/w/index.php?title=Arcata_and_Mad_River_Railroad&diff=3864&oldid=prev John Hall at 22:26, 16 December 2021 2021-12-16T22:26:05Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:26, 16 December 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l71">Line 71:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 71:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_California|California]] / [[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_California#Common Carrier|Common Carrier]] / [[Arcata and Mad River Railroad]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_California|California]] / [[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_California#Common Carrier|Common Carrier]] / [[Arcata and Mad River Railroad]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:45.25in Gauge Railroads|45.25in]] [[Category:Cordwood]] [[Category:Logging]] [[Category:Lumber]] [[Category:Potatoes]] [[Category:Wool]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:45.25in Gauge Railroads|45.25in<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] [[Category:Porter Locomotives]] [[Category:Baldwin Locomotives</ins>]] [[Category:Cordwood]] [[Category:Logging]] [[Category:Lumber]] [[Category:Potatoes]] [[Category:Wool]]</div></td></tr> </table>

John Hall https://www.pacificng.com/w/index.php?title=Arcata_and_Mad_River_Railroad&diff=3841&oldid=prev Andrew Brandon at 20:27, 6 December 2021 2021-12-06T20:27:22Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:27, 6 December 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_California|California]] / [[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_California#Common Carrier|Common Carrier]] / [[Arcata <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">& </del>Mad River Railroad]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_California|California]] / [[Narrow_Gauge_Railroads_of_California#Common Carrier|Common Carrier]] / [[Arcata <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>Mad River Railroad]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; 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