Northbound at the Dry Creek Trestle on the side of Mount Shasta, moving empty evergreen containers to Tacoma with a patched SP AC44CW.

Due to a temporary detour agreement BNSF was running trains on UP rails in Northern California and Oregon. On Saturday morning this workhorse was pulling the grade up to the summit at Grass Lake a... (more)

Mount Shasta and Shastina tower over the Butte Valley as Amtrak's Coast Starlight blasts northward at 79mph on a spectacular summer morning. The searchlights and code line are living on bo... (more)

A northbound Union Pacific manifest train travels under the beautiful Mount Shasta in the background, with six engines in tow.

Storm clouds gather over Mount Shasta as a BNSF detour train grinds upgrade toward Grass Lake summit.

A Vancouver to Barstow high priority manifest train takes the siding at Kegg. This shot was taken from the fire watch tower at the peak of Orr Mountain in Northern California. Elevation at the sum... (more)

At 7:51am The Coast Starlight was running over two hours down at this point, which afforded a pretty daylight view of the train along the northwestern flanks of Mount Shasta. On top of their othe... (more)

A southbound auto rack reposition train leaves Dunsmuir for Roseville. This train is detouring over the Shasta Route thanks to an extensive tie replacement program in the Columbia River Gorge.

A northbound extra crossing Dry Creek Trestle along the northslope of California's Mt. Shasta in the mid afternoon.

A westbound manifest leaves the fog behind while climbing the grade from Weed to Black Butte jct on the Siskiyou sub

SP 8370 west at Mott, CA on June 7, 1989, as Mount Shasta watches the action. The train is about to begin the steepest part of the descent down to Dunsmuir on a 2.5% grade. Scanned from a Kodach... (more)

one of only four GP40X's on SP's roster leads an Oregon bound train at Mott siding north of Dunsmuir, CA