Following a crew change, an eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line departs Wendel. Southern Pacific had less than four weeks of independence remaining.

Southern Pacific EMD GP9 No. 3392 pauses between tasks on a local freight at Stockton, California, on March 6, 1994. Built as SP No. 5653 in March 1956, it still retains much of the look of a sta... (more)

In January 1997, flooding in the Feather and Sacramento River Canyons compelled Union Pacific to detour numerous trains on the Modoc Line for a couple of weeks. A westbound detour train is seen de... (more)

With the Warner Mountains for a backdrop, an eastbound manifest on the Modoc Line exits Indian Camp Loop. Earlier in the month, Modoc trackage between Alturas and Wendel had been reactivated follo... (more)

The railroad that never was - a westbound lead by a tunnel motor wearing the SPSF scheme is about to pass the only caboose Southern Pacific painted for the never-consummated merger.

One of the trains detoured on the Modoc Line due to flood damage in the Sacramento River Canyon descends the grade between Sage Hen and Likely, California. In less than six months, this trackage w... (more)

Two rebuilt SD45s shove hard on the rear of an eastbound lumber drag at Woodford.

An eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line descends Viewland Hill into the Honey Lake Valley. The train will stop for a crew change at Wendel in less than ten minutes.

At one time, the Southern Pacific operated a line further east on Anaheim's Santa Ana Branch, operating down the center of Santa Ana Street, than it did not long before the Union Pacific acquired ... (more)

Siskiyou Line SDs lay over at the Medford depot on a Saturday afternoon.

The caboose of a lumber drag going from Eugene to East St. Louis rolls through the high desert of the Modoc Line.

Forest fire smoke dominates the high desert as an eastbound Modoc Line train rolls along US 395 near Termo. Both the road power and helper can be seen as this lumber drag curves through the sagebr... (more)

DENISON TX (July) 1974 — With a wave from a friendly crewman Southern Pacific U33C 8683 leads a mixed freight. My photo.

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.

SP SD9E 4363 at Eugene, Oregon in July 1991. The 4363 holds the honors as being the first high-hood SD to be repainted in the red/yellow bonnet scheme in 1986.