After a good night's sleep and a quick breakfast, I walked over to the Klamath County Museum for a picture of what I saw on the way to the Maverick Motel last night.
Weyerhaeuser caboose 702 built by the company in 1928 and used on logging lines across Klamath County for 37 years before falling out of service in 1965.
The display board. After putting all the corrections into my story from yesterday, I walked back to the station while Chris took the bus.
Union Pacific 5417 North.
Passengers waiting for the train to arrive to board.
Union Pacific 5461 South.
I walked down to the train for the rear end shot.
The drumhead of our unique trip, after which I walked back to my luggage where Bob Riskie was waiting.
BNSF 4742 North. The train reversed into the station and we all boarded for the final day of the Northern California Explorer, leaving Klamath Falls at 8:07 AM with Mount Shasta in view.
Mount Shasta in view as we left Klamath Falls behind.
Bieber Line Jct and where we came into Klamath Falls yesterday.
Views on the way to Worden.
Our train went into the siding at Worden to wait for a late Coast Starlight.
The Coast Starlight on its way to Seattle. Back on the mainline, we went into the first tunnel then entered California.
The train headed for the second tunnel and with that, we entered the Butte Valley.
Crossing the Butte Valley.
Cedar Mountain.
Later Mount Shasta had its head in the clouds.
The train reached the summit of the grade at Grass Lake.
Cloudy Mount Shasta from Andersite.
Views of the Shasta Valley.
Crossing a short trestle.
The Shasta Valley.
Sheep Rock.
Miller Mountain.
Our train rounding another curve.
Lake Shastina.
Our train approaching the Hotlum Trestle.
The Shasta Valley.
Our train crossing Hotlum Trestle.
A lava flow from a local cinder cone.
Shastina poking its head out of the clouds.
A peak in the Trinity Alps.
Black Butte water tower.
Black Butte.
The junction with the McCloud River Railroad in Mount Shasta City.
We had a running meet with a northbound Union Pacific freight train at Upton before dropping down the grade to the Sacramento River at Cantara Loop.
Looking down into the Sacramento River Canyon.
The derailment-proof bridge at Cantara Loop.
The Sacramento River on the way to Dunsmuir where we briefly stopped.
The Dunsmuir water tank as the train departed.
The Dunsmuir turntable.
A few minutes later, the Castle Crags.
The train would follow the Sacramento River south down the canyon.
The yellow flowers were in bloom throughout the Sacramento River Canyon.
The Sacramento River before we reached Lakehead.
The Interstate 5 bridge across the Sacramento River.
Lake Shasta.
The Sacramento River crossing of Shasta Lake.
Lake Shasta.
The interesting geology above the Pitt River.
McCloud River about to flow into the Pitt River.
Crossing the Pitt River looking east.
Crossing the Pitt River looking west before passing through Gray Rocks.
The train crossed the Redding Sacramento River bridge then ran through Redding.
Nearing Cottonwood before we reached Red Bluff.
Now speeding through the Sacramento Valley and turned east at Thema.
The crossing of the Sacramento River east of Thema.
Orchards on the way to Chico, where, a few minutes later, we stopped.
The Southern Pacific Chico station built in 1892. We left here and sped south toward Sacramento and walked to Car 1 and visited with Bart Jennings to talk about events.
Looking east towards Table Mountain. At Berg, our train took the siding but did not have to stop.
Union Pacific 5431 North at Berg. From here we headed to our crossing of the Feather River.
The train crossed the Feather River.
We took the connection at Binney Junction and our circle was complete. The train then started the sprint to Sacramento, arriving at 4:01 PM, ending an excellent trip aboard the Northern California Explorer. Special thanks to the BNSF and Union Pacific Railroads and the Central Coast Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society for all pulling together for this very unique trip. We detrained and went to wait for our luggage to arrive then I checked Chris and I into the Vagabond Inn for the night before returning to collect our luggage once it arrived. The train left for Emeryville and we went to the Vagabond Inn.
