The PTLAT has just changed crews at the depot in Dunsmuir. Once it clears the crossovers, the OAPTT will depart for Klamath Falls.

A Union Pacific manifest highballs Algoma siding along Upper Klamath Lake on the Cascade Subdivision. In nine miles, the train will pause for a crew change at Klamath Falls, Oregon. The signals in... (more)

Led by a colorful set of locomotives, an eastbound train on the Siskiyou Line is working up the 3+% grade to Siskiyou Summit.

They say if you hang out around the railroad long enough, you will see just about anything. Here, we have the Coast Starlights meeting in Klamath Falls on 2004's first Saturday morning. Needless t... (more)

Running around eight hours late because of a detour on the Oregon Trunk, the Coast Starlight snakes along the Sacramento River. The old Pacific Highway bridge in the background dates from 1925.

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)

The Napa garbage loads roll northbound on the Shasta Route in the summer of 1999.

A train of lumber off the Siskiyou Line crosses the massive trestle at Redding. In 1986, the only paint on the equipment was applied by either the manufacturer or the owner.

The Swift RoadRailer train is a few hundred yards from entering the Golden State. Malin, Oregon is virtually on top of the Oregon/California state line.

Train 792, the Northwest Talgo, departs Portland for Seattle. The Talgo equipment was in its first month of operation in the Northwest.

On a hazy afternoon filled with smoke from forest fires, a westbound Modoc Line train rounds Likely Loop. Within a year, operations here would cease. The trackage was dismantled in 2003.

On a fourth of July excursion between Mt. Shasta and McCloud, the MR 18 paused at Big Canyon for a couple of minutes. The conductor, who has been a friend for a long time, graciously let me bail ... (more)

BN's south end train is ready to depart Bieber for Klamath Falls. The UP units that brought the train north are parked, awaiting crew's rest to return to Stockton.

On Labor Day 1988, an eastbound SP drag takes siding for Amtrak 11 on the south side of Albany. At the time, it was common for SP to use first generation power on trains in the Willamette Valley b... (more)

On a frigid winter day, an EUASM meets a light helper on the Modoc Line.