page_title: California, Shasta and Eastern Railway
section_title: Anderson and Bella Vista Railroad
hierarchical_section_title: California, Shasta and Eastern Railway / History / Anderson and Bella Vista Railroad
caption_attribution_description: English: Northern portion of route in 1901
context_page_description: The California, Shasta and Eastern Railway was a 15 miles shortline railroad which operated, for nearly 40 years, between Anderson and Bella Vista, California with no greater aspirations then being a glorified mill spur. Briefly around 1906 however, the road basked in the limelight of the mighty E.H. Harriman who considered, and then discarded, the idea of incorporating it into one of his "paper" railroads projected through the region.
context_section_description: The bottleneck of the operation was the transfer of the lumber from the mill at Bella Vista to the nearest rail connection, which was 10 miles (16 km) away in Redding and on the wrong side of the Sacramento River. Clearly, a standard gauge shortline railroad would need to be constructed. In about 1891, work began on the Anderson & Bella Vista Railroad down the valley of Cow Creek to the Southern Pacific rail connection in Anderson.
caption: Northern portion of route in 1901
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