Step off the train during a stopover at Lewis Creek Canyon for some fun and entertainment featuring live music or theater. Along the way you will recall the days of the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Company’s logging operations, discover the trees of the Sierra National Forest, and find out why the Shay locomotive is unprecedented. Then take your seat on The Logger Steam Train for an excursion narrated by the conductor. This popular event offers a NY steak or chicken BBQ dinner al fresco at the station with live music. Vintage Shay locomotives provide the steam power for this one 1-hour journey.īe sure to befriend the conductor as he tells you old logging stories and teaches you about the local flora while traveling down the tracks in a quaint “Model A” gas engine railcar on this 30-minute journey. Enjoy a brief stopover in the Lewis Creek Canyon to see the locomotive up close, or explore the outdoors before your return trip to the station. Take your seat on an open-air log or covered passenger car for a narrated journey back in time along the narrow gauge tracks. Relive this rich California history of the post-Gold Rush era at the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad located just outside Yosemite National Park. Long gone, but not forgotten, these are the days of the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Company and its logging operation during the turn of the 20th century in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
The last log is chained down and the whistle blows once more as the steam train winds its way down the mountain on the narrow gauge tracks. It’s the end of the work day, and this will be a heavy load to haul off-but the Shay locomotive is powerful. It chugs faster as it makes its way up the steep grade. The whistle blows as the locomotive approaches. They hurry to split it into large logs to be hauled off by the steam engine. Lumberjacks quickly take to the freshly felled timber their saws rattle and snarl as they tear through the bark of the mighty tree. Branches snap off of nearby trees as the massive pine slowly crashes to the forest floor. Timber! The last little bit of its core finally cracks. The train winds through the Sierra National Forest on the restored railroad used for the Madera Sugar Pine’s logging trains. All aboard the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad for an exciting four-mile scenic excursion.
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