A westbound train on the Modoc Line approaches the US 395 grade crossing at Likely, California in summer 1990. Today, the grade from here south to Wendel is a hiking trail.

Under threatening skies, two brand-new SD70Ms on an eastbound train await a rested crew.

A tardy Coast Starlight rolls northward through Siskiyou County. Next stop: Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Running seven hours behind schedule, the Empire Builder rolls westward through the Columbia River Gorge. Melonas siding was built in 2017. It is named to honor a family that has produced three gen... (more)

Roughly 50 miles from the end of the line in Portland, the Empire Builder races west through the Columbia River Gorge.

Three SD40-2s lead a Z train south on the Shasta Route. Typical for the period, they started life on three different railroads - C&NW, D&RGW, and UP.

A baretable heads south on the BNSF Gateway Subdivision during a quiet summer morning. In the distance, Mt. Shasta dominates the landscape. The lead unit was rebuilt from a Rio Grande SD45.

The Everett to Roosevelt garbage loads are a little over 20 miles form their destination at Roosevelt, Washington. Even after the BNSF merger, the lead GE was something of a rare bird in the North... (more)

Just about everything in this image either doesn't exist anymore, or is no longer located in the state of Oregon. The unlikely combination of an F40, a PA-1 and an RSD-5 sun themselves on a spring... (more)

The eastbound Empire Builder passes through the Columbia River Gorge, not far from the Bridge of the Gods.

Running around 90 minutes off schedule, the Portland section of the Empire Builder rolls through the Columbia River Gorge. The train is about 53 miles into its journey to Spokane, where it will be... (more)

A baretable train heads south on the Shasta Route, led by a former Erie Lackawanna SDP45 that had been remanufactured by Morrison-Knudsen.

A trio of tunnel motors lead an eastbound Southern Pacific train through the Sacramento River Canyon.

Showing the effects of a decade of service, an SP GP60 leads a lumber drag through the Sacramento River Canyon.

A contractor fuels the locomotives on the "Shasta Daylight 1990" special at Redding, California. The train would soon move into the passenger depot to entrain passengers for the return t... (more)