The last loaded log train on Oregon, California & Eastern departs Bly for Klamath Falls. The railroad was abandoned a year later.

The North Coast Daylight rolls through the redwoods on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend 1985.

The fireman and baggage master on the westbound Empire Builder anxiously await the highball from Glasgow, Montana.

In the winter of 1988-89, Union Pacific experienced severely cold temperatures in Oregon's Blue Mountains. Many trains were detoured around the problem area. Power for a detouring UP train just in... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe intermodal train climbs Ash Hill.

An extra West Stayton Local passes a Christmas tree farm in Oregon's Willamette Valley. A mechanical refrigerator car is being taken a packing plant in Stayton to spot on speculation of getting a ... (more)

A westbound Modoc Line train passes the distant signal protecting the diamond with BN. These were the only signals on the Modoc between Klamath Falls and Wendel.

During 1990, Burlington Northern leased two McCloud River locomotives. The units were primarily used between Klamath Falls, Oregon and Bieber, California on BN's South Local. The McClouds are a fe... (more)

Amtrak 14 meets a BNSF freight train at Wocus in September 2002. Once the Southern Pacific's presidential ride, in the Union Pacific fleet "Sunset" is just another business car.

Brand new warbonnets lead the 991 train over the Tuolumne River bridge near Modesto Empire Jct. on the Santa Fe Valley Division.

Because of a derailment in the Cascades, the northbound Coast Starlight was going to terminate at Klamath Falls. On a cold morning before any buses arrived, Amtrak decided to wye the train at Texu... (more)

A fantrip on the Oregon Trunk approaches O.T. Junction and a return to the UP mainline on a flawless fall afternoon. This train operated between Portland and Bend through the Columbia River Gorge ... (more)

Once upon a time, trains on the Modoc Line added helpers at Ravendale. By 1988, the water tank standing along the tracks was the only remaining structure from those days.

Less than two months after the Southern Pacific/Rio Grande merger, an eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line passes the water tower at Madeline. One of the first actions taken after the merger wa... (more)

Rolling along in the shadow of Mt. Shasta, an eastbound Siskiyou Line train crosses the Shasta Valley, heading for Medford.