Tall Trees. Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome 313 (WEBX 801044), former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built dome-coach 549 (WEBX 801045), and former New Yo... (more)
The Siskiyou Line's grade through Weed, California is 3+%. On a spring afternoon, CORP's Weed Switcher totes the interchange traffic for UP up the hill.
Roaring up the 3.3% grade to Black Butte, a westbound train bisects Weed, California on the Siskiyou Line. Power for the Weed Local is parked at right.
An eastbound train on the Siskiyou Line is descending the grade into the Shasta Valley near Weed. Lead unit SP 6819 is now preserved at the California State Railroad Museum.
One of the hotter trains on the Shasta Route in the 80s was the CZLAT, which carried paper barged to Portland from a Crown Zellerbach mill in Camas, Washington. Here, a manifest has been put away... (more)
Led by a brand new Cotton Belt GP60, the Pacific Northwest Chapter NRHS's "Shasta Daylight 1990" excursion heads for Redding on the Black Butte Subdivision.