A northbound UP train bound for Eugene rolls through the east Cascade forest at Kirk, Oregon.

In the last year that SP trains regularly ran with cabooses on the Shasta Route, a westbound train takes siding at Kirk.

After meeting a westbound SP train, BN's 672 train (Klamath Falls, OR - Pasco, WA) pulls out of Kirk siding, crossing the Williamson River. BN predecessor GN had trackage rights on SP from Chemult... (more)

After climbing Calimus Hill, streaking across the Williamson River is an on-time Coast Starlight.