PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR: MCCLELLAN, CA; SEPT., 1984
GE 80-tonner No. 1605 emerges from the enginehouse at Mc- Clellen Air Force Base to handle the day’s switching chores
(above). The railroad was used to shuttle equipment and sup- plies. The air force also kept a self-propelled crane at the base.
An air force base railroad Rail service was important to McClellen Air Force Base/Joseph Kreiss M
odelers are often looking for rail-served industries that can be added to a layout. An ideal customer might be one that ships in and out a variety of materials and possibly even has its own locomotives or railroad to service its daily needs. Such a facility could be modeled in to- tal, being the sole subject of a layout; in part–using building flats and a few sidings or just inferred by the use of a siding running to the edge of the lay- out. What type of customer fits this bill? Well, how about a United States Government facility? Today it’s known as the Sacramento
Valley Railroad (SAV) and it is the ex- clusive freight carrier for the 3,000- acre McClellan Business Park’s 2.4
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