The southbound Swift RoadRailer is led by a CNW Dash 9 in spring 1999. After UP acquired SP, CNW power was common on Shasta Route intermodal trains.

In the twilight of its career, a Santa Fe caboose zips along the Transcon. Happily, ATSF 999465 is still with us today. It is on display in a city park along the BNSF main line at Escalon, Calif... (more)

The SP's Corvallis Local rumbles down the street trackage at Independence, Oregon. In less than three months, this branch will be leased to Willamette & Pacific.

A wig wag protects the grade crossing at the former studios of radio station KLAD in Klamath Falls. The signal survived long enough to be one of the last wig wags on the Shasta Route.

Restored to its original Southern Pacific paint scheme, Dick Samuels' GE 70-tonner rolls south on the East Portland Traction Company. The Union Pacific 3203 was originally on display with Spokane,... (more)

After changing crews at Safford, the Globe Local heads toward its namesake. Southern Pacific sold the Globe Branch to Kyle Railways later in the year.

The aspen groves north of Chiloquin, Oregon are some of the most underrated fall color in the Northwest. Fall 1999 was an especially good year for the trees.

The SP Board of Directors tour the Shasta Route on a hot August day. Paint on the SDPs was so fresh you could smell it as the train went by.

Flying low, the eastbound Southwest Chief highballs the crossover at East Double A, Arizona on the first day of Fall 1996.

East meets west as SP and Conrail units pull a train west along San Pablo Bay.

A train on the Modoc Line nears Klamath Falls.

On a snowy January morning, SP's Grants Pass Turn switches the Crowson Corporation mill on the south side of Ashland. No one knew it at the time, but in just six years the Siskiyou Line would be s... (more)

Both Quincy Railroad locomotives are shown at the Sierra Pacific mill in Susanville. The operation to move Arizona fire-salvage logs to supply the mill there was the last hurrah for the old SP bra... (more)

Having crossed the Madeline Plains, an EUASM begins the climb to Crest siding. This site is near Ravendale on SP's Modoc Line. It had been less than two months since the SP/Rio Grande merger.

Espee's last Newberg Turn heads west on the Newberg Branch in Portland's southwest suburbs. The three SD9s on the point of the train will be left at McMinnville for Willamette & Pacific's use when... (more)