Even during the long summer days of August, the shadows of the Feather River Canyon can quickly cloak the mountains in darkness. Here, BNSF 6821 catches the last few rays of sunlight as it heads u... (more)

Railroading out here isn't easy. The Feather River Route cuts through some of the most treacherous terrain in the Western United States. The tracks often parallel huge walls of loose rock, creatin... (more)

The chase is on! After leaving Keddie midday, track work near Paxton delayed this train long enough that it ended up making a run down the heart of the Feather River Canyon in some awesome afterno... (more)

Deep in the heart of gold country, a quartet of General Electric products owned by the BNSF Railway guide 10,397 tons of priority manifest out of Tunnel no. 25, on a moist Winter morning in the he... (more)

Traveling west through scenic Feather River Canyon, a Union Pacific intermodal train passes through Tunnel 25 in Serpentine Canyon east of Rich Bar, California, on March 12, 2000. A pair of GE Das... (more)

Crews are on scene of an eleven car derailment near Rich Bar, California in the Feather River Canyon. Here, a couple of those crew members analyze how a wheel axel tore up the side of a grain car... (more)

Derailment in the Feather River Canyon. Just after 3am on November 25th, 2014, a westbound grain train derailed near Rich Bar, California in the Feather River Canyon. The train carrying co... (more)

What use to be the Canal St. Z Train, the ZG2LT gets rerouted over the Canyon Subdivision as the Donner Pass is closed for track work. The EMD charges out of the tunnel at Rich Bar.

WP eastbound UP runthrough TOF takes a big curve deep in the Feather River Canyon near Rich Bar

A BNSF auto train rolls west through the Feather River Canyon at Rich Bar on a beautiful early summer afternoon.

View of the whole Dunsmuir RR Days "Circus Train" (as described over the radio by a couple humorous passing UP freight crews).

With UP generously offering both the WP and SP Heritage Units to the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola to use for the annual Museum Special to Dunsmuir's RR Days weekend festival, we knew... (more)

The WP heritage unit leads the WPRM Dunsmuir RR Days Special on WP heritage rails out of Tunnel 25 west of Rich Bar in the Feather River Canyon.

Don't slip... It's a long fall into the drink.