The Challenger rolls westbound through Blairsden at daybreak.

BNSF 4934 departs home rails and creeps out onto the Keddie Wye, now westbound on the UP Canyon Subdivision

A BNSF train waits at the end of the BN Gateway Sub before entering the UP Canyon Sub westbound at Keddie.

UP freight westbound along the Middle Fork of the Feather.

Eastbound BN train crosses Rock Creek in the Feather River Canyon

A little further east up the FRC for those whom were sure its a model

Yes, that is a camera on the conductor's face. He is taking a picture of me taking a picture of him. He laughed and hollered all the way by. I was dumbfounded of course.

Just off the UP Canyon Sub and the Keddie Wye, a BNSF manifest crosses the trestle over Spanish Creek as it begins its trip up the BNSF Gateway Sub.

Eastbound UP freight waits at Virgilia. The conductor climbed down and invited my (then) 5-year-old son into the cab for a look around. He also apologized for the locomive being so dirty, and off... (more)

It was now late in the afternoon, and the number of railfans chasing the train dwindled to five or so, down from maybe thirty when the train left Roseville.

The eastbound FRRS WP special move from Roseville to Portola is caught over the curved Rock Creek Trestle a couple hours west of Keddie. This move was the result of a 3-way equipment trade between... (more)

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