The passage of a westbound manifest train lights up the darkness of a starry night as it travels down the mountain and across the Foss River Trestle, a 1909 vintage viaduct spanning the Foss River... (more)

Busy US 2, a couple hundred yards east of this spot, parallels the old highway from where this shot was taken. The train is about to pass the remains of the shuttered LongFibre plant in the rural... (more)

At Kalama a UP southbound passes the tied-down BNSF sweeper in the siding along the Columbia River in Southwest Washington

The massive foundation of Mt Shasta offers some perspective of a railroad built along its flanks.

A pig train under a star filled sky passing through the community of Castella at 8:00 PM nears its crew change point in Dunsmuir, a few miles north of here.

A bit unusual to see - Union Pacific conveying a PSAP hand off V-train traveling down the Valley Sub just south of town with a Mt Shasta backdrop.

This southbound manifest is crawling through the canyon at Sacramento Avenue and is near its crew change point where it will pause at the AMTRAK depot, then continue down the Valley Sub.

Passing through the "ghost town" community of Bray at 3:30 in the afternoon in below freezing temperatures, a southbound is a few short miles from the summit at Grass Lake.

Southbound Q train curves into the morning light with the southern flank of Mt Shasta in the background at CP Azalea.

A northbound extra crossing Dry Creek Trestle along the northslope of California's Mt. Shasta in the mid afternoon.

Train 14 racing north along the shore of frozen Upper Klamath Lake near Algoma. The third unit is NPCU 90253, in tow to return north to Cascades service. Steam rising into the cold morning air f... (more)

Quite a thrill watching a Z train snaking along the Sacramento River from a perch above Gibson Siding at 7:05 PM. The long streak through the hill is I-5.

Switching the south end of Klamath Falls Yard

One of those "classic Scenic shots" with a bonus of snow covered trees. US 2 crosses over the rail line and climbs to Stevens Pass, curving along the mountainside in the background.

Intra-state daily manifest comes through Lyons Siding on the High Line Saturday morning and will soon terminate in Spokane.