Camino, Placerville and Lake Tahoe Railroad

The Camino, Placerville and Lake Tahoe Railroad (reporting mark CPLT) was an 8-mile (13 km) Class III short-line railroad operating in the Sierra Nevada in California, east of Sacramento.

It was built primarily to haul lumber from the El Dorado National Forest.

[1] The CPLT's history starts in 1903 with its predecessor, the Placerville and Lake Tahoe Railway.

On April 11, 1904, the Placerville and Lake Tahoe was incorporated and the line was opened that same year.

At Camino, the Placerville & Lake Tahoe went to narrow-gauge (operated as the El Dorado Lumber Company Narrow Gauge Lines) where it extended another 65 miles (105 km) into the forest in the area of Old Pino, Pino Grande and Pilot Creek (Tallac).