Clear Creek Junction History

1955 General Electric Diesel locomotive #166 decommissioned 2003,  located at Collin Pines Museum    Photo by Stacy Fisher

Clear Creek Junction, once the end point of a 13-mile section of track from the town of Chester — one of the shortest railroad train track lines ever used in the country — has served as a depot to several companies over many decades, including the Southern Pacific passenger and freight train service into Westwood from Fallon until 1914, Red River Lumber Co. in the ‘20s and ‘30s, the Fruit Growers Supply Company starting in 1944, the Collins Pine Co. beginning in 1943 and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. Information from news article titled History of the crossroads of Clear Creek Junction  www.plumasnews.com