Around a year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a lumber drag from Oregon arrives at Dunsmuir.

A coal train bound for Searles highballs Bealville siding in the Tehachapis.

After delivering interchange traffic to Southern Pacific in Eugene, Willamette & Pacific's Eugene Hauler heads for home in Albany, Oregon.

A Santa Fe intermodal passes a Southern Pacific coal train in the Tehachapis.

An Oregon-bound drag of lumber empties descends the grade out of the Tehachapi Mountains at Cliff siding on a hot July 1988 afternoon.

An ex-Southern Railway SD45 is sandwiched by a pair of Southern Pacific SD40T-2s on a Shasta Route lumber drag in summer 1988.

A little over a year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a westbound train highballs Mott siding on the Shasta Route. The crew change at Dunsmuir is about ten miles away.

As the Swift RoadRailer highballs the siding at Mott, California, it is less than half an hour from a crew change at Dunsmuir.

Awaiting the passage of a directors' special bound for Oregon, Southern Pacific's PTLAT train is parked in the siding at Mott, California.

The sound of dynamic braking fills the air as a westbound Southern Pacific lumber drag highballs Mott, California. After making a 180-degree turn just ahead at Sawmill Curve, the train will start ... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific train is holding the main at Mott, waiting for an eastbound train to climb out of the Sacramento River Canyon and clear on the siding in the foreground.

A little over a month after it was delivered, Southern Pacific's first SD70M leads a westbound lumber drag on the Shasta Route.

Working in its fifth year since it was built by EMD, an SD70M leads a westbound manifest train on the Shasta Route.

A tunnel motor with patina leads a westbound intermodal train on the Shasta Route.

Bound for the 1992 NRHS Convention in San Jose, SP 4449 and the Daylight excursion train hits the east switch at Mt. Shasta. The GP60s had assisted the train over the Oregon Cascades the previous ... (more)