On a fine fall morning, a drag of lumber empties heads west on the Modoc Line. The train is descending the grade between Sage Hen and Likely.

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 blocks" t... (more)

Less than three months before UP closed the Modoc Line as a through route, a colorful CNW GE leads a westbound.

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 westbound train on the Modoc Line crests the grade up Howard's Gulch at Ambrose. From here to tie-up at Klamath Falls, it is all downhill or level.