An eastbound train on the Shasta Route highballs Penoyar siding.

At sunset, a pair of SP SD7s switch cars near the middle of huge Roseville Yard. SP's SD7s had a marvelously successful career, having been built in 1951, and surviving to the very end of SP's exi... (more)

The Trinity Alps loom in the distance as the Swift RoadRailer heads for Los Angeles. After dropping into the Sacramento River Canyon and curving around Cantara Loop, the train will change crews a... (more)

Late in the afternoon, a pair of ACs leads an SP eastbound up the grade at Colfax. The train will stop here to add a rear helper.

Three patched SPs sit in the Denver Yard in June of 2008.

Ex-Southern Pacific 8526, patched for its current owner is hostled into position onto an outbound freight.

The CORP brakeman kicks off the air and uses the handbake to ease the chipcar to te rest of the train.

The CORP crew wraps up the day returning a lone chipcar to the WYE

A horizontal view of an earlier posting with the Eastbound Scrap train at Big Canyon on the McCloud Railway with Mt. Shasta looming in the background.

Led by SD38 #38, what amounts to a funeral train is being made up at Pierce on the McCloud Railway. Tje loaded gons contain some of the rail removed in the past few weeks from the McCloud Railway ... (more)

The Proviso to Pine Bluff manifest is lead by a patched ex-Espee SD40-2. Seems that they perfectly centered the UP herald on the bloody nose.

A stack train behind a patched tunnel motor uses a bridge over the San Pedro River installed in 1995 as part of SP's efforts to double-track this busy portion of the Sunset Route.

UP's high priority Los Angeles to Portland Z train makes a very fast (five minute) crew change at Dunsmuir with the Rio Grande heritage unit leading. In the background is the famous water tank wit... (more)

Two very unusual visitors greet the early sun at McCloud as they prepare to pull a Trains Unlimited special back over the hill to Mount Shasta City.

It is hard to believe that it is already over a year since the McCloud Railway made its last revenue run East of McCloud. June 30th of 2006 marked the end. I chased this freight from McCloud to Bu... (more)