On a fine fall morning, a drag of lumber empties heads west on the Modoc Line. The train is descending the grade between Sage Hen and Likely.

Less than three months before UP closed the Modoc Line as a through route, a colorful CNW GE leads a westbound.

On a hazy afternoon filled with smoke from forest fires, a westbound Modoc Line train rounds Likely Loop. Within a year, operations here would cease. The trackage was dismantled in 2003.

A westbound train on the Modoc Line crests the grade up Howard's Gulch at Ambrose. From here to tie-up at Klamath Falls, it is all downhill or level.