In a view inside Colorado’s Big 10 Curve, a westbound Union Pacific coal empty at Clay passes above the rear of the train heading toward the big curve west of Rocky on the morning of August 4, ... (more)

Led by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW Nos. 314 and 182, a westbound Union Pacific coal empty approaches Big 10 Curve west of Rocky, Colorado, on the morning of August 4, 2001.

4449 started four days of running the Fallbridge Sub to Wishram and back to Vancouver. The special was for documentary an was a complete surprise to many.

As the morning fog burns off, a westbound Southern Pacific manifest rolls into the sunshine. In the distance, Willamette & Pacific's Eugene Hauler is departing Albany Yard.

Stopped by an emergency brake application, a westbound manifest on the Shasta Route cools its heels in the Butte Valley.

A westbound manifest on the Shasta Route has just entered California on a cold winter afternoon.

Even though it had been 18 months since Union Pacific swallowed up Southern Pacific, this image suggests little had changed on the Shasta Route. The northbound RoadRailer nears Oregon in spring 1... (more)

Shortly after a crew change at Dunsmuir, a westbound SP manifest crosses Castle Creek in the shadow of the Castle Crags.

Southern Pacific SD40T-2 #8530 still wears the SPSF merger scheme as it leads a Westbound light helper set into Caliente. The consist includes a pair of former Missouri Pacific SD40's, now Paducah... (more)

Because a train is stalled ahead due to a UDE, the hotshot LABRF's path to the next crew change at Klamath Falls is blocked. While the train waits it out, the conductor is going to the Mt Hebron ... (more)

The Redding Turn switches out some cars at its namesake on a winter afternoon.

An eastbound train of lumber empties is rolling along the Black Butte Subdivision. The orange plating over the class light receptacles was something I never saw on any other SP locomotive.

An eastbound drag on the Siskiyou Line passes the wig-wag at Yoncalla, while a local resident waits for the train to clear the crossing.

Rounding the big curve just north of the state line, the Staley Turn heads for the beet loader at Stronghold, California on the Modoc Line.

Just after sunrise, the Olympic Torch Relay train arrives at Klamath Falls. Local Olympic decathlon champion Dan O'Brien was featured in the ceremonies at the depot.