The northbound Coast Starlight rolls along Grass Lake on a summer morning in 1995. The train is nearing the summit of Southern Pacific's crossing of the Southern Cascades. In about an hour, No. 14... (more)

Returning to Portland after overnighting in Redding, the "Shasta Daylight 1990" excursion special passes Grass Lake.

A westbound Shasta Route train approaches Bray, California on Memorial Day weekend 1994.

A set of Southern Pacific power makes a move at the west switch of Mount Hebron siding. This location is on the Black Butte Subdivision between Klamath Falls and Dunsmuir.

The northbound Coast Starlight prepares to stop at Mount Hebron, California on the Black Butte Subdivision. It will meet two opposing Southern Pacific freight trains there.

Rolling along at 79 mph, the northbound Coast Starlight bisects the Butte Valley on a late spring morning.

After 22 miles of downgrade from the summit near Grass Lake siding, this eastbound intermodal train has hit the Butte Valley floor at Mount Hebron. At the time, doublestacks on the Shasta Route we... (more)

On Labor Day 1995, an Amtrak California F59 leads the northbound Coast Starlight through Northern California. The locomotive was headed for Tacoma to be repainted.

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.

A westbound manifest climbs the grade to tunnel 17 near Dorris, California on Southern Pacific's Black Butte Subdivision.

Nearly three years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a solid set of SP power works the Seattle to Los Angeles Z train.

A non-clearing eastbound holds up the RoadRailer on a cloudless summer morning in the Butte Valley. Lead unit SP 8626 had been built for Chicago Great Western 30 years earlier.

In 1997 and 1998, Amtrak excursion trains operated from Sacramento to Dunsmuir, California for the annual Railroad Days celebration. After detraining the passengers at Dunsmuir, the train continue... (more)

A trainload of empty garbage containers heads south on the Shasta Route. The train was operated from Roosevelt, Washington by BNSF. Union Pacific will take the train to Suisun-Fairfield, where it ... (more)

The Louisiana Worlds Fair Daylight climbs the 1% grade to the Oregon/California state line on the second morning of its trip to New Orleans. Twenty minutes earlier, the train had departed Klamath ... (more)