This odd structure once stood at Sage Hen on the Modoc Line. Not long after Rio Grande Industries acquired Southern Pacific in fall 1988, an eastbound passes the shack.
One of the first trains on the Modoc Line after the SP/Rio Grande merger descends the grade eastbound from Sage Hen. The last train ran here in summer 1997; this is now a hiking trail.
An eastbound train on the Modoc Line is approaching the crew change at Wendel. The line had reopened to through traffic three days earlier when Rio Grande and SP merged.
SP SD45T2 #6820 is leading two other SD45T2's and two SD40T2's as it rolls West thru Mogul, NV West of Reno.