The Coast Starlight heads north in the shadow of Mount Shasta. When the diner goes by there will be a nice whiff of breakfast.

As the morning fog burns off, a westbound Southern Pacific manifest rolls into the sunshine. In the distance, Willamette & Pacific's Eugene Hauler is departing Albany Yard.

Stopped by an emergency brake application, a westbound manifest on the Shasta Route cools its heels in the Butte Valley.

A westbound manifest on the Shasta Route has just entered California on a cold winter afternoon.

Even though it had been 18 months since Union Pacific swallowed up Southern Pacific, this image suggests little had changed on the Shasta Route. The northbound RoadRailer nears Oregon in spring 1... (more)

A Magma Copper mine shuttle heads for the smelter in San Manuel. The train came by our campsite shortly after sunrise.

Shortly after a crew change at Dunsmuir, a westbound SP manifest crosses Castle Creek in the shadow of the Castle Crags.

The northbound Mount Rainier is running a couple of hours late as it arrives at Vancouver on a summer morning. This locomotive was preserved and now resides at a museum in Nevada.

A pair of ex-Western Pacific GP35s pull two ex-Southern Pacific Daylight cars on an excursion in Washington's Palouse region. The train is operating on the former Union Pacific branch between Hoo... (more)

Pacific Rail Society's "Desert Scout" excursion awaits its return to Los Angeles while passengers check out the former Harvey House.

In October 1995, Southern Pacific 4449 spent a week on Portland & Western doing public relations work. On the last day that the steamer operated, the late David Goodheart set up this photo op in ... (more)

An eastbound train of empties negotiates the vertical curve in the "Parachute" east of Olene. This is a hiking trail today.

Because a train is stalled ahead due to a UDE, the hotshot LABRF's path to the next crew change at Klamath Falls is blocked. While the train waits it out, the conductor is going to the Mt Hebron ... (more)

The Redding Turn switches out some cars at its namesake on a winter afternoon.

An eastbound train of lumber empties is rolling along the Black Butte Subdivision. The orange plating over the class light receptacles was something I never saw on any other SP locomotive.