A westbound train on the Modoc Line approaches the US 395 grade crossing at Likely, California in summer 1990. Today, the grade from here south to Wendel is a hiking trail.
A heavy westbound Modoc Line train enters the farmlands of the Klamath Basin near Copic.
Aside from the loaded ballast cars on the head end, this westbound train on the Modoc Line is virtually all empty boxcars and flatcars returning to Oregon for another load of forest products. This... (more)
At Sage Hen summit, power for a westbound has pulled away from its train in anticipation of receiving an additional locomotive from an eastbound. Needless to say, the appearance of a Conrail unit ... (more)
With the Amedee Mountains for a backdrop, an ASEUM prepares to depart for Klamath Falls on the Modoc Line. This train of lumber empties should arrive in Eugene the following day.
A westbound train on the Modoc Line departs Alturas for Klamath Falls, Oregon. The train is coming off the alignment of the Nevada-California-Oregon narrow gauge and entering the grade of the Modo... (more)
A westbound drag on the Modoc Line pounds the BN diamond at Stronghold on a spring afternoon. The Modoc's primary purpose was to move Oregon forest products east. Westbounds on the Modoc were pr... (more)
A tired looking tunnel motor and mates lug a long train of lumber empties up the Modoc Line toward Oregon.
A train on the Modoc Line nears Klamath Falls.
A westbound Modoc Line train passes the distant signal protecting the diamond with BN. These were the only signals on the Modoc between Klamath Falls and Wendel.
A westbound drag of lumber empties for Oregon descends the grade from Sage Hen summit on the Modoc Line.
An hour before sunset, a pair of unusually clean tunnel motors powers a short westbound manifest on light rail and cinder ballast on the remote Modoc Line. Rattlesnake Butte looms ominously in th... (more)
