Susanville Roundhouse

The Southern Pacific Roundhouse, Susanville, 1947. G. Dunscomb Collection
The Southern Pacific Roundhouse, Susanville, 1947. G. Dunscomb Collection

Yes, I must confess my ignorance on this topic. This railroad’s roundhouse is unique in the sense it was isolated.  It was not something a person would drive by, and it went relatively unnoticed unless you worked for the railroad or was involved with the nearby lumber mills.

Equally, puzzling is the rarity of photographs of trains along the Fernley & Lassen line. What makes that peculiar when one takes into consideration the large amount of tonnage shipped. During its existence, I would safely estimate some three billion board feet of manufactured lumber was shipped across these rails, that with the exception of the rails left at the Susanville Depot are all gone.

If anyone has information that they would like to share about the roundhouse, it would be greatly appeciated.

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