The engine terminal on the Siskiyou Line at Ashland, Oregon was a great place to see big SP road units. On a late summer evening, a pair of tunnel motors rest before their next trip over the Sisk... (more)

Back when Amtrak would run excursions, a two-day Oregon circle trip climbs the west side of the Cascades on Southern Pacific. The train was sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Chapter NRHS, and ov... (more)

The Coast Starlight flies low across Butte Valley on Memorial Day weekend 1994.

A rare (for the area) CP SD90 leads a train on the Shasta Route. The area north of Chiloquin, Oregon has several aspen groves that provide lots of fall color in early October.

In spring 1987, a work train is setting out water cars at sidings in the Cascades so they can be available for fire service in the summer.

An amply powered eastbound descends the west slope of Oregon's Cascade Range on a 1987 spring afternoon.

For a few days in July 1993, Willamette & Pacific put together a power set that represented all the variations in appearance that were seen on their ex-ATSF GP39s. From left, we have a full WPRR ... (more)

As the Willamette & Pacific Eugene Hauler prepares to depart Albany Yard, a Southern Pacific train passes on the main line.

In the last year that SP trains regularly ran with cabooses on the Shasta Route, a westbound train takes siding at Kirk.

A westbound lumber drag cuts its helper set at Cascade Summit.

A westbound lumber drag takes siding at Cascade Summit to cut its helper and meet Amtrak 14. The lead locomotive survived long enough to be the last SP Kodachrome painted road unit in operation fo... (more)

An eastbound SP train in the Cascades is entering the slide area near Fields siding.

In 1990-1992, Union Pacific traffic to and from Burlington Northern at Bieber was detoured on Southern Pacific between Marysville, California and Klamath Falls, Oregon. One of the northbound detou... (more)

As the Coast Starlight closes in on its station stop at Klamath Falls, the PTLAT departs for Los Angeles.

A quartet of ex-SP GEs pull a northbound Union Pacific Z train on the Shasta Route.