Camino Placerville and Lake Tahoe

Company History: The CPLT was established at the end of 1911 by the Michigan-California Lumber Company to take over the standard gauge portion of the bankrupt Placerville & Lake Tahoe Railway. The 8 mile line linked Camino, California with Southern Pacific’s Placerville Branch. The primary source of traffic was lumber cut from the El Dorado National Forest in the Sierra Nevada Range. The lumber traffic dried up by the 1980s and in 1986, the CPLT and Southern Pacific’s Placerville Branch were both abandoned.

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