The Woodland Local works a spur in its namesake city during summer 1988. Power for the job is a former Western Pacific locomotive.

A lumber drag from the Rogue Valley heads west on the Siskiyou Line.

Santa Fe's hot 991 train crosses the Alhambra Viaduct in Martinez, California.

Operating over six hours behind schedule, the Portland section of the Empire Builder passes the trackside vineyard near Maryhill siding. The train's next station stop is at Wishram. a few minutes ... (more)

In a bucolic view of Northern California life, Santa Fe's 991 train rolls past the depot at Pinole.

Santa Fe's 991 train rolls past the depot at Pittsburg, just into its run to Illinois.

On a hot Thursday afternoon, the 199 train meets a 968 train at Christie siding.

An eastbound Southern Pacific train on the Modoc Line awaits a signal to enter Union Pacific's ex-Western Pacific mainline.

Led by a tunnel motor painted for the SPSF merger, a lumber drag begins the climb out of the Rogue Valley on the Siskiyou Line.

An eastbound Southern Pacific train of lumber empties rolls along the Klamath River on the Siskiyou Line.

A westbound Southern Pacific manifest highballs Castle Crag siding in the Sacramento River Canyon.

Two brand new SD70Ms roll a lumber drag through the west end of Dunsmuir Yard on a perfect summer morning.

A westbound departs Castle Crag siding near Dunsmuir, passing one of the last wig-wags in Shasta County, California.

The visual cues in the photograph provide no clue that this is a Union Pacific train. In January 1997, a flood detour heads south on the Modoc Line, beginning the climb out of the Madeline Plains.... (more)

Aside from the loaded ballast cars on the head end, this westbound train on the Modoc Line is virtually all empty boxcars and flatcars returning to Oregon for another load of forest products. This... (more)