As the Swift RoadRailer highballs the siding at Mott, California, it is less than half an hour from a crew change at Dunsmuir.
Locomotives representing both sides of the Southern Pacific/Union Pacific merger hustle the LA-bound Swift RoadRailer through Cougar, California in summer 1998.
Almost two years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, the Swift RoadRailer heads for Southern California.
On a clear fall afternoon, the Swift RoadRailer highballs southbound near Grass Lake, California.
A Swift RoadRailer train rolls southward through the Sacramento River Canyon.
One of the last southbound RoadRailer trains operated by Union Pacific on the Shasta Route nears a crew change at Klamath Falls.
The southbound Swift RoadRailer crosses Dry Canyon Trestle on the flank of Mount Shasta. In 2021 the trestle was heavily damaged by a forest fire.
The southbound Swift RoadRailer curves through the Sacramento River Canyon in fall 1999.
The southbound Swift RoadRailer is led by a CNW Dash 9 in spring 1999. After UP acquired SP, CNW power was common on Shasta Route intermodal trains.
