In a bucolic view of Northern California life, Santa Fe's 991 train rolls past the depot at Pinole.

Santa Fe's 991 train rolls past the depot at Pittsburg, just into its run to Illinois.

On a hot Thursday afternoon, the 199 train meets a 968 train at Christie siding.

An eastbound Southern Pacific train on the Modoc Line awaits a signal to enter Union Pacific's ex-Western Pacific mainline.

Led by a tunnel motor painted for the SPSF merger, a lumber drag begins the climb out of the Rogue Valley on the Siskiyou Line.

An eastbound Southern Pacific train of lumber empties rolls along the Klamath River on the Siskiyou Line.

A westbound Southern Pacific manifest highballs Castle Crag siding in the Sacramento River Canyon.

Two brand new SD70Ms roll a lumber drag through the west end of Dunsmuir Yard on a perfect summer morning.

A westbound departs Castle Crag siding near Dunsmuir, passing one of the last wig-wags in Shasta County, California.

The visual cues in the photograph provide no clue that this is a Union Pacific train. In January 1997, a flood detour heads south on the Modoc Line, beginning the climb out of the Madeline Plains.... (more)

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)

An eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line is about to make a 180 degree change in direction at Indian Camp Loop. This train is around five miles into the climb from Likely to Sage Hen.

This odd structure once stood at Sage Hen on the Modoc Line. Not long after Rio Grande Industries acquired Southern Pacific in fall 1988, an eastbound passes the shack.

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)

Led by a Union Pacific unit, an eastbound Southern Pacific train on the Modoc Line climbs the grade to Sage Hen summit. Ironically, UP's acquisition of SP would doom this trackage to abandonment.