Awaiting the passage of a directors' special bound for Oregon, Southern Pacific's PTLAT train is parked in the siding at Mott, California.
The sound of dynamic braking fills the air as a westbound Southern Pacific lumber drag highballs Mott, California. After making a 180-degree turn just ahead at Sawmill Curve, the train will start ... (more)
A westbound Southern Pacific train is holding the main at Mott, waiting for an eastbound train to climb out of the Sacramento River Canyon and clear on the siding in the foreground.
A little over a month after it was delivered, Southern Pacific's first SD70M leads a westbound lumber drag on the Shasta Route.
Working in its fifth year since it was built by EMD, an SD70M leads a westbound manifest train on the Shasta Route.
A tunnel motor with patina leads a westbound intermodal train on the Shasta Route.
Bound for the 1992 NRHS Convention in San Jose, SP 4449 and the Daylight excursion train hits the east switch at Mt. Shasta. The GP60s had assisted the train over the Oregon Cascades the previous ... (more)
Southern Pacific trains meet on the Shasta Route at Upton siding during August 1988.
Less than an hour from a crew change at Dunsmuir, a hot intermodal train is westbound on the Shasta Route near Mount Shasta.
A year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a train on the Shasta Route does not display any indication of the change.
With a storm brewing over the Trinity Alps, a pair of ex-Southern Pacific SD70Ms depart Black Butte with a manifest, heading for Oregon.
Over a year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, it was still possible to capture images of Espee on the Shasta Route.
Late on a summer evening, an eastbound heads for Oregon over the west flank of Mt. Shasta.
An SD9 in the shadow of Mt. Shasta awaits its next call to duty.
High above the Shasta Valley, the northbound Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon in summer 1994. An Amtrak engineer once told me that if the signals were all green and the train was making track sp... (more)
