For over 100 years, the Quincy Railroad has connected the small mountain town of Quincy, California with the outside world. When the Western Pacific Railroad built the Feather River Route in the e... (more)
Western Pacific GP40 3506 and WP U23B's 2264 and 2254 are eastbound at Williams Loop near Quincy, California July 02, 1979. No photographer listed on slide.
A full moon softly illuminates the crossing point at the Williams Loop. A train, as yet unseen, approaches out of the Feather River Canyon to the west, turning the signal red.