Amtrak Capitol races towards Sacramento as the sun sets

FRRS special heading for Roseville for a days rest at late afternoon, the next day it will make it's journey to Dunsmuir for the Dunsmuir RR Days

The FRRS special to dunsmuirs waits at a red signal looking like a lionel toy train from this vantage point and with the almost erie setting of forest and rock, as it waits for an approaching BNSF... (more)

Assisting the 844 is EMD DD40X #6936, the only one of it's kind still operating.

I was lucky to catch the WP heritage-liveried 1983; earlier on that day I also saw the UP centennial 6936 at Portola which was to cross the Wye on July 4th.

Sunsets on 6936 and the FRRS Special as it arrives in the Sacramento area on it's journey to Roseville on the 1st leg of it's trip to Dunsmuir, you can really see the massive length of this unit, ... (more)

DD40X 6936 leads the FRRS special over the long and scenic Redding Trestle in the early evening as it gets closer to it's final Destination of Dunsmuir for the Dunsmuir RR Days

6936 leads the FRRS special through the small town of Gridely

6936 leads the FRRS special over the Sacramento River near Tehema

UP 6936, leading the Dunsmuir Railroad Days Special is seen running on the very long trestle at Redding. This was part of a two day trip from Portola. Very special thanks to my friend Al Bayer for... (more)

Sitting in Portola yard during the early stages of sunrise is the FRRS Dunsmuir Railroad Days Special with UP's famed DD40X "Centennial" 6936, sporting american flags for the 4th of July. Nikon D2... (more)

6936. WP925B, and WP2001 lead the FRRS Special along the Feather River Resavoir

DD40X 6936, WP 925B, and WP2001 lead the FRRS SpeciaL over over the Rock Creek Trestle

The FRRS Special on the move to the Dunsmuir RR Days, including Union Pacifics only working DD40X 6936, WP 925B, and WP2001 and some cars from the FRRS Museum as 6936 snakes through Pulga

Centenial 6936, WP925B and WP2001 and the FRRS Special come around the curve at West James as it slows for a BNSF manifest to pass as it crawls under the hwy 70 overpass