Espee Tank. The waste water collection tank at the Union Pacific facility/Amtrak station in Dunsmuir, California is a lasting memory of the Southern Pacific Lines. Depicted is SP 6839 (SD45... (more)

A baretable train heads south on the Shasta Route, led by a former Erie Lackawanna SDP45 that had been remanufactured by Morrison-Knudsen.

A trio of tunnel motors lead an eastbound Southern Pacific train through the Sacramento River Canyon.

Showing the effects of a decade of service, an SP GP60 leads a lumber drag through the Sacramento River Canyon.

Two brand new SD70Ms roll a lumber drag through the west end of Dunsmuir Yard on a perfect summer morning.

A westbound departs Castle Crag siding near Dunsmuir, passing one of the last wig-wags in Shasta County, California.

On Duty On Dunsmuir. Union Pacific Railroad 7967 (ES44AC/AC45CCTE, GE, 5/2012) pulled into Dunsmuir, California at just before 10:00 PM on March 26, 2022 leading a double stack train. There... (more)

After a crew change, southbound Union Pacific No. 5736 leads a manifest out of the Dunsmuir Railyard and down the hill on the Valley Subdivision.

The Dunsmuir set of helpers heads south down the hill to tie on to the second section of a long northbound. Long trains are split for the run up or down the hill and then reassembled.

Just like a lot of us got our start with the fascination of trains, a young boy and his mom watch the departure of a manifest from Dunsmuir California.

A set of Helpers await the next assignment spotted next to the old Southern Pacific Turntable in the town of Dunsmuir California.

Amtrak no. 14, the northbound Coast Starlight, running 5 plus hours late arrives at the Dunsmuir Amtrak Station. Dunsmuir is a true railroad town. In 1887,the Central Pacific completed the line t... (more)

The brakeman and engineer on a helper locomotive watch the Louisiana World's Fair Daylight pass by in Dunsmuir, California. The T-2 is only four years old. Thanks to the "EL PASO" lettering on t... (more)

A mixed freight pulls out of a winding route along the Sacramento River with Mount Shasta standing tall in the background.

UP 5334 leads a mixed freight along the Sacramento River outside of Dunsmuir, CA. The train is about to round the bend and cross the river at the infamous Cantara Loop, the site in 1991 of a derai... (more)