A meet on the Siskiyou Line - a train of empties proceeds eastward up the main line while a westbound waits in the siding at Gazelle.

A relatively short eastbound Siskiyou Line train nears Hornbrook.

Roaring up the 3.3% grade to Black Butte, a westbound train bisects Weed, California on the Siskiyou Line. Power for the Weed Local is parked at right.

A Happy Valley Helper set leads a westbound Espee manifest on the Sunset Route. When we visited the area, the GP35 pairs seemed to be everywhere.

An eastbound Espee stack train snakes through the desert early on a summer morning.

Power lays over at Ashland on New Year's Day 1987. Local jobs on the Siskiyou Line at the time were almost exclusively covered by SD9s.

An eastbound train on the Siskiyou Line is descending the grade into the Shasta Valley near Weed. Lead unit SP 6819 is now preserved at the California State Railroad Museum.

A BNSF local switches out the industrial park in Washougal, Washington.

A westbound train on the Shasta Route departs Klamath Falls for Dunsmuir in spring 1997.

Led by a Union Pacific unit, a Southern Pacific train departs Klamath Falls on the Modoc Line. It was the first time I had ever caught a UP unit leading an SP train. Since UP ultimately abandoned ... (more)

Under a dramatic sky, a westbound train off the Siskiyou Line arrives at Black Butte. The train will take the west leg of the wye and head for Dunsmuir on the Shasta Route.

The caboose on the Toledo Hauler passes the Harris Covered Bridge, enroute to the Oregon Coast. By month end this trackage will be leased to Genesee & Wyoming for operation as the Willamette & Pa... (more)

A Southern Pacific local heads west (timetable east, of course) on the Tillamook Branch in the southwest suburbs of Portland. A late winter storm has dumped some fresh snow on Mt. Hood.

An eastbound manifest on the Modoc Line passes stored sugar beet cars at Stukel siding. The train is a few miles south of Klamath Falls. In less than three months, Union Pacific will close the M... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific manifest is entering the Modoc Line at Texum siding, a junction on the south side of Klamath Falls.