Diamond & Caldor Railway

& the California Door Company

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Caldor mill. Pre-1923.

Shay #10 heading for Diamond. Art Hannah collection.

Shay #10. The largest Shay on the D&C.

Caldor mill. Pre-1923.

Unidentifiable Shay plowing snow.

More research will have to be done to identify this Shay, it is either #2, 3 or 4.

Ernie Scheiber next to a camp car train.

Moving time!

Shay #3.

Shay #7 wrecked in July, 1937.

Shay #6 on a collapsed trestle.

Shay#7 on the side.

The Tally-Ho bus in the Diamond yard, June 1952. Art Hannah collection.

Caldor mill, 1915.

Caldor store.

Caldor German Band. 1902.

D&C #1. The only rod locomotive ever used by the D&C.

Purchased used from the Ferries & Cliff House Railway

Caldor today.

Sierra Trading Post near Oak Hill Road. A D&C trestle can be seen in the upper left.

Diamond Lime Tramway. Ran from the quarry on Cedar Ravine to Diamond, where it crossed the D&C.

Remains of the Steel Bridge on the North Fork Cosumnes River. Fall, 2004

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