The northbound Coast Starlight arrives at Portland in March 1994.

Returning to Portland from a week on Washington Central, the SP&S 700 heads west through the Columbia River Gorge.

The Copic Local passes the wig wag at Malone. It was the last "Magnetic Flagman" in service on the Modoc Line.

A lumber drag of Oregon forest products rolls through the Joshua tree forest on the eastern side of Tehachapi.

Added at Black Butte for dynamic braking, SP 7399 leads the Louisiana World's Fair Daylight around Cantara Loop. Seven years later, SP would have a very nasty derailment here.

East meets west as SP and Conrail units pull a train west along San Pablo Bay.

An eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line is passing Crest siding in winter 1989. The temperature matched the population - 0F. From here, it will be almost all downhill to the crew change at Wen... (more)

Relettered for a PR tour of the Willamette & Pacific and Portland & Western railroads, the SP 4449 eases down WPRR's Westside District at an easy 10 MPH.

The Coast Starlight is northbound in the shadow of Mount Shasta.

A Directors's Special curves along the Sacramento River at Gibson siding.

With traffic on Union Pacific gridlocked, Talgo shipped its carbodies to Seattle by truck for final assembly. Three of the cars are seen at a truck stop on US 97.

Rolling along in the shadow of Mt. Shasta, an eastbound Siskiyou Line train crosses the Shasta Valley, heading for Medford.

Less than a month before the Union Pacific takeover, a westbound drag on the Modoc Line climbs the 2.2% grade of Howard's Gulch. It looks like the job has a sufficient number of "cinder bloc... (more)

Shortly after the Pacific Parlour service began in 1995, one of the cars heads north on the Coast Starlight.

The North Coast Daylight tiptoes along the Eel River as it nears the Scotia Bluffs. Once past this slide-prone area, the train will deliver its passengers to Eureka for two nights and a day on Cal... (more)