I found this article about Merced Falls and some information about the incline. I sure wish I could have seen the incline when it was being used. It is hard to believe that there was anything at Merced Falls. Sure is not much left today. I like things about the YVRR I wish it was still running It stopped just about the year I was born. I hope you enjoy this article. Le Grand Advocate, Saturday, August 10, 1912 BIG SAW MILL The first trainload of logs over the Yosemite Lumber Company’s incline railroad to El Portal came down to the saw mills at Merced Falls Monday, negotiating the wonderful grades of the incline with ease. Fifteen cars were in the train, each containing in the neighborhood of 6,000 feet of timber. From that time on thirty-car trains will be brought down daily. This incline is 8000 feet long, the top being 3000 feet higher than the bottom. One grade on the incline system reaches 86 per cent. The rail road is of standard gage. The mill at Merced Falls has a daily capacity of 150, 000 feet of lumber. It is modern in equipment and is considered one of the finest plants on the coast. The logging camps in the mountains will employ 350 men and the mill at the falls 400 men. The lumber company is building a modern town about the sawmill, installing electric lights, a water system and sewer. Modern cottages for employees are under construction. Merced Falls a village of fifty people a year ago, is now a town of 800. It is twenty-five miles north-east of Merced city. –Livingston Chronicle -- Thomas and Paulette Hilk 1725 Wildwood Ct. Merced, CA. 95340 E-mail address: paulette@elite.net