Oregon, California & Eastern's first train of the summer 1988 season approaches the West Switchback. Note the train's caboose in the distance.
A Modoc Northern train enters Alturas, CA on the former SP Lakeview Branch. The caboose was ex-DRGW.
The southbound Coast Starlight arrives at Portland. General Electric's flashy 500-class locomotives had just gone into service on trains 11 and 14.
Crossing the trestle made famous by the film "Stand by Me," a McCloud River train heads for home at McCloud. The lumber loads came from the Sierra Pacific sawmill at Berry, near Burney.
A train departs McCloud for the BN interchange at Lookout.
A derailment on the Shasta Route has sent the Coast Starlight on a detour via Keddie. A dogcatch crew has driven to Bieber to take the train on to Klamath Falls and Portland.
The 4449 switches out a customer on the Oregon Electric during a special operation to promote the railroad.
Yreka Western's freight train departs the interchange with Central Oregon & Pacific at Montague.
Empty garbage containers depart Klamath Falls on a winter morning. This train is moving empties from the landfill at Roosevelt, WA to a reload on California Northern.
A westbound lumber drag heads toward Dunsmuir on the Shasta Route. This location on the shoulder of US 97 is a great place for catching trains and Mount Shasta.
Rolling through the tunnel of trees between Lyons and Kingston, a Willamette Valley train returns from a trip to Mill City on a hot summer afternoon.
A California Northern train enters Hamilton City with beets from the Klamath Basin.
CORP switches out the interchange with UP's Shasta Route at Black Butte.
The train to the Burlington Northern interchange makes an air test before departing McCloud.
A winter excursion on McCloud River's Lookout line plows snow.