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)

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.

A six-unit helper assists a manifest as it climbs out of Caliente and through tunnels 1 and 2.

Power is SP 7515, DRGW 5398, EMDX 782, and CSXT 3131.