On the longest day of 1997, Amtrak operated an excursion between Sacramento and Black Butte. It was a rare opportunity to see a fair amount of the Shasta Route in daylight hours. The return trip i... (more)

In spring 1995, Oregon DOT used a Talgo set laying over at Portland for quick demonstration trips to Salem on weekends. One of these trains has just arrived at Salem. The engineer is leaving the... (more)

Due to a tunnel fire, BN's Albany to Pasco, WA roadfreight detours on the Southern Pacific's Tillamook Branch.

An eastbound Siskiyou Line train rolls through the Shasta Valley. The lead unit is now preserved in Sacramento at the California State Railroad Museum.

On a fine fall morning, a drag of lumber empties heads west on the Modoc Line. The train is descending the grade between Sage Hen and Likely.

Back when Amtrak would run excursions, a two-day Oregon circle trip climbs the west side of the Cascades on Southern Pacific. The train was sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Chapter NRHS, and ov... (more)

On Black Friday 1991, a train of empty beet racks on the Modoc Line is about to cross Burlington Northern's line to Bieber. Holly Sugar established a receiving station at Stronghold siding for th... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific manifest is passing the Shasta Route's junction with the Modoc Line at Texum. The train will enter SP's Klamath Yard shortly.

Over two years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, an SP unit with patina leads a southbound manifest through the sagebrush plains of Siskiyou County's Butte Valley.

The last westbound Capitol of the day slows to a stop at Davis.

Stopped by an emergency brake application, a westbound manifest on the Shasta Route cools its heels in the Butte Valley.

An eastbound drag on the Siskiyou Line passes the wig-wag at Yoncalla, while a local resident waits for the train to clear the crossing.

A few weeks before the trackage was leased to the Willamette Valley Railway, an extra West Stayton Turn rolls east on the Geer Branch. This line through the suburbs of the state capital is now aba... (more)

A Southern Pacific local heads west (timetable east, of course) on the Tillamook Branch in the southwest suburbs of Portland. A late winter storm has dumped some fresh snow on Mt. Hood.

An eastbound train on the Siskiyou Line winds up for the climb to Siskiyou Summit.