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My wife and I had a long weekend away in the Fresno, California area in November and on 12 November, I drove to Fish Camp, on SR 41, the southern route into Yosemite National Park, to ride the Yosemite Valley Sugar Pine RR.?

I'd known about the line for many years, but had never gotten around to riding it. The website said there was one train at 11 am and I arrived around 1030, to find the train sold out. however a 1 pm train had been added for the extra business and I wound up riding that. Here are a few photos of Shay #10 on the 11am train, as well as a couple of old Ford railcars.?

The line goes from the station near SR 41 down the hill on track laid on the right of way of the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber company, which logged this area in the first decades of the 20th century. The far end of the line is a loop, so trains alternate between tender first and smokebox first operation. Shays run equally well in both directions. <a href="https://ymsprr.com/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">ymsprr.com/</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Mountain_Sugar_Pine_Railroad" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Mountain_Sugar_Pine_Railroad</a>