A pair of SP GEs power a UP intermodal train south on the Shasta Route. Before the UP acquired SP, GE locomotives were rare on the SP Oregon Division.

SP's famous "Cans" emerge from Tunnel 5 at the west end of Cliff siding in the Tehachapis.

Amtrak on the Modoc Line? Just barely. In summer 2003 UP was doing tunnel work in the Oregon Cascades. The Coast Starlights were terminated and turned at Eugene and Klamath Falls, with a bus bridg... (more)

A train of fire-damaged salvage logs from Arizona crosses US 395 on the former SP Susanville branch. The logs would be milled at the Sierra Pacific plant in Susanville.

The temperature is only a few degrees above zero as a southbound manifest departs Klamath Falls. Over two years after SP has been acquired by UP, little change has come to the Shasta Route.

On a hot summer afternoon, Eureka Southern's road freight meets the North Coast Daylight at Fort Seward. The crews will swap trains and return to their home terminal.

An eastbound Modoc Line train begins the descent down Howard's Gulch not long after the Rio Grande/SP merger. The UP unit on the point is ironic, as UP's acquisition of SP eight years later would ... (more)

On a warm summer morning, SJVR's Hanford Job waits for the Santa Fe's 991 train in downtown Hanford, California. It will be a hot day, so the SJVR crew has fully engaged their air conditioning dev... (more)

During the annual sugar beet campaigns, Southern Pacific and California Northern interchanged trains to/from the Klamath Basin at Tehama, California. On this day, the CFNR crew has cut off their t... (more)

When Rio Grande and Southern Pacific merged, one of the first acts taken was to reopen the mothballed Modoc Line. The third eastbound Modoc train arrives at Wendel for a crew change.

The crew of this BNSF westbound is arriving home on Christmas Eve. The cold has preserved the previous day's snowfall.

The quiet of a Sunday morning along the Columbia is disturbed by this eastbound passenger special. The train was deadheading home after being used on some Operation Lifesaver trains in the Northwe... (more)

Caboose 24 trails Central California Traction's road freight returning from Sacramento. The train is a couple of miles south of Herald, California.

Espee's first rebuilt SD45T-2 arrives at Black Butte in June 1986. The train will take a left turn at the crossovers ahead and proceed up the Siskiyou Line to Medford.

The California Northern crew assigned to today's beet hauler is coupling their power onto their train. It is a train of loads brought down from Klamath Falls by SP, symbol KFCNU on Espee. The beet... (more)