With Serpentine Canyon still mostly shrouded in deep shadow, the sun pops over the mountains to the east just in time to illuminate 6086 East.
A hot UP pig train meets an eastbound APL double-stack at Hawley at dusk with the Sierra Nevada under a thick blanket of snow.
UP 2422 West descends from the Feather River Canyon to Oroville via a gaint s-curve just east of town.
Centennial 6908 leads an OMW along a ledge protected by a slide fence in the middle of Serpentine Canyon.
Centennial 6927 leads an OME out of the portion of the Canyon still in morning shadows into brilliant sunlight as it approaches Virgilia.
A WP eastbound climbs through the Sierra forests at Spring Garden in the Upper Feather River Canyon.
WP U30B 3052, one of two demonstrators the railroad purchased from GE, leads a string of BN Alcos at James as they make the assault on the grade that leads to the Canyon.
UP 3647 leads a highline train up the Feather River Canyon.