An eastbound manifest rolls through the Butte Valley, in the shadow of Mount Shasta. The Friendly Southern Pacific has just a little over a year of independence remaining.

A northbound intermodal train passes Mount Shasta.

On the first day of Fall 2002, a 14-hour late Coast Starlight enters Redding, California. It is around 5:30 PM, and the temperature is 100F.

In spring 1995, Oregon DOT used a Talgo set laying over at Portland for quick demonstration trips to Salem on weekends. One of these trains has just arrived at Salem. The engineer is leaving the... (more)

On the first day of fall, a 14 hour late Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon Viaduct on the flank of Mount Shasta. The next station stop for train 11 will be Dunsmuir.

An ex-Rio Grande tunnel motor on the Union Pacific Cascade Subdivision rolls tonnage at sunset, both literally and figuratively.

The Albany Roustabout clears yard limits at Albany, Oregon as it works west toward Eugene.

For a brief time in Oregon, locomotives of the mid-20th century and the early 21st century worked side by side. On Labor Day 1994, two brand new SD70Ms cool their heels in the siding at Labish, w... (more)

On a clear fall morning, the Albany Roustabout makes up its train at Albany Yard.

They say if you hang out around the railroad long enough, you will see just about anything. Here, we have the Coast Starlights meeting in Klamath Falls on 2004's first Saturday morning. Needless t... (more)

Fourteen hours late, the southbound Coast Starlight curves through the Sacramento River Canyon. Although it is the first day of Fall, temperatures will reach triple digits by the time the train m... (more)

Roughly four hours late, the northbound Coast Starlight departs Redding, California. The train is crossing Lake Redding on the impressive Redding Trestle, built at the south end of the Shasta Dam... (more)

The Pacific Coast Express is about two hours into its trip to Los Angeles as it nears a crew change at Eugene. The drawbridge towers in the background mark the location of Burlington Northern's p... (more)

A westbound UP manifest roars through Mosier, a small town in the Columbia River Gorge.

The Conductor and Fireman on the Coast Starlight confer during the train's station stop at Eugene.