A set of Southern Pacific power makes a move at the west switch of Mount Hebron siding. This location is on the Black Butte Subdivision between Klamath Falls and Dunsmuir.
The northbound Coast Starlight prepares to stop at Mount Hebron, California on the Black Butte Subdivision. It will meet two opposing Southern Pacific freight trains there.
Rolling along at 79 mph, the northbound Coast Starlight bisects the Butte Valley on a late spring morning.
After 22 miles of downgrade from the summit near Grass Lake siding, this eastbound intermodal train has hit the Butte Valley floor at Mount Hebron. At the time, doublestacks on the Shasta Route we... (more)