Under dark grey skies and through the driving rain, 50031 Hood approaches the remote station at Scotscalder on 18 June 2006 with the Pathfinder Tours 1Z22 17:00 Thurso to Wick and Inverness 'Orcadian' railtour. Scotscalder station serves no more than a few scattered farms and cottages and is situated amid very bleak moorland and rough grazing land.