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.

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)

In 1987-1988, Southern Pacific closed the Modoc Line to through traffic. If the Modoc had been open, this EURGM would have been closing in on Alturas. Instead, the train is crossing Dry Canyon Via... (more)

Three years after Southern Pacific was acquired by Union Pacific, a westbound manifest rolls down the Shasta Route.

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.

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.

Union Pacific 8181 tugs a lengthy northbound manifest across the Dry Creek Trestle near Hotlum, California. With a ballast train doing work at Kegg, this would be one of only three trains to pass ... (more)

A southbound manifest with a cut of Pacific Northwest lumber on the point rumbles across Dry Canyon Trestle approaching Hotlum with Mount Shasta and Shastina behind.

A colorful stack train climbs northward through the desolate lava fields between Hotlum and Andesite on the western flank of Mount Shasta. Lake Shastina is visible in the distance to the upper rig... (more)

Three venerable ES44AC's trot a heavy Southbound manifest; full of lumber products from the Pacific Northwest, over the Dry Creek Trestle.

As seen from atop a small rock protruding out of the manzanita growth, a northbound manifest freight is approaching the north switch of Hotlum siding while some 10,000 feet above, Mount Shasta hol... (more)

Lost in the lava flows: As the shadows grow long and the sun dips towards the horizon behind me, the peace and quiet in the remote desert below California's Mount Shasta is disturbed by a northbou... (more)

A shot on the bridge, or with the mountain... Why not both? A long hike out through the manzanita yielded this view looking back broadside at Dry Canyon Trestle with the 14,179-foot-high summit of... (more)