The visual cues in the photograph provide no clue that this is a Union Pacific train. In January 1997, a flood detour heads south on the Modoc Line, beginning the climb out of the Madeline Plains.... (more)

A trio of Southern Pacific SD40T-2s, with 8251 in the lead, is in charge of Union Pacific train 1-EUWC-M-(K)-07 (Eugene to West Colton Manifest) as it passes the old SP station in Turlock, in Cali... (more)