The Quincy Railroad is a 3.27-mile terminal railroad

Terminal Railroad

Terminal Railroad or Terminal Railway may refer to:*Terminal railroad, a railroad that operates a terminal facility*Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks*Terminal Railway of Buffalo, predecessor of the New York Central Railroad...

 located at Quincy, California

Quincy, California

Quincy is a census-designated place and the county seat of Plumas County, California. The population was 1,728 at the 2010 census, down from 1,879 at the 2000 census. Quincy is named after the city of Quincy, Illinois...

. The QRR interchanges with the Union Pacific (former Western Pacific

Western Pacific Railroad

The Western Pacific Railroad was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was formed in 1903 as an attempt to break the near-monopoly the Southern Pacific Railroad had on rail service into northern California...

) at Quincy Junction in Plumas County, California

Plumas County, California

Plumas County is a county located in the Sierra Nevada of the U.S. state of California. The county gets its name from the Spanish words for the Feather River , which flows through the county. As of the 2010 census, the population 20,007, down from 20,824 at the 2000 census...

, United States.

For many years, the Quincy operated a separate 23.3 mile branch running over former Southern Pacific

Southern Pacific Railroad

The Southern Pacific Transportation Company , earlier Southern Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Company, and usually simply called the Southern Pacific or Espee, was an American railroad....

 branch from Wendel-Susanville, California

Susanville, California

Susanville is the county seat of Lassen County, California, United States. Susanville is located on the Susan River in the south-central part of the county, at an elevation of 4186 feet . The population was 17,974 at the 2010 census, up from 13,541 at the 2000 census...

 which is now abandoned.

The railroad handles over 1,000 cars per year of outbound lumber and forest products. The QRR is owned by Sierra Pacific Industries.

The QRR has two locomotives:

• QRR 5 is an EMD SW1200
  EMD SW1200
  An EMD SW1200 is a diesel switcher locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between January 1954 and May 1966. Power was provided by an EMD 567C 12-cylinder engine which generated 1200 horsepower...
  
   built in November 1950 (Builder No. 13459)
• QRR 12 is an EMD SW7
  EMD SW7
  The EMD SW7 was a diesel switcher locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between October 1949 and January 1951. It was powered by a V12 567A engine developing . 489 SW7 locomotives were produced. The majority of the SW7s were built by EMD Plant #3 in Cleveland, Ohio...
  
  

Three Quincy locomotives, QRR 4, an ALCO S-1

ALCO S-1 and S-3

The ALCO S-1 and S-3 were switcher diesel-electric locomotives produced by ALCO and their Canadian subsidiary Montreal Locomotive Works . Basically, the two locomotives differed only in trucks, with the S-1 using ALCO's own Blunt trucks, and the S-3 riding on standard AAR type A switcher trucks...

http://www.wplives.org/PRM_Home/Locomotives/Quincy4/quincy4.html, QRR 3, a GE 44-ton switcher

GE 44-ton switcher

The GE 44-ton switcher is a 4-axle diesel locomotive built by General Electric between 1940 and 1956. It was designed for industrial and light switching duties, often replacing steam locomotives that had previously been assigned these chores...

http://www.wplives.org/PRM_Home/Locomotives/Quincy3/quincy3.html, and QRR 1100, an EMD TR6A

EMD SW8

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, are now located at the nearby Western Pacific Railroad Museum

Western Pacific Railroad Museum

The Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California, formerly known as the Portola Railroad Museum before , is a heritage railroad that preserves and operates historic American railroad equipment. The museum's mission is to preserve the history of the Western Pacific Railroad and is...

. QRR 2, an ALCO 2-6-2T, is currently at the Niles Canyon Railway

Niles Canyon Railway

The Niles Canyon Railway is a heritage railway running through Niles Canyon, between Sunol and the Niles district of Fremont in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, USA. The railway is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Niles Canyon Transcontinental...

.http://www.ncry.org/roster/s_02/quincy2.shtml