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Goose Lake Railway Freight Operations on 14 June 2025 |
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On 14 June 2025 Parker Gibson travelled to Lakeview to photograph the weekly Goose Lake Railway freight on its southbound journey. He arrived in Lakeview at 5:00 in the morning to find the train had already departed. Parker headed south and caught up with the train near New Pine Creek. GP15-1 #917, still lettered SSRX #Y614, powered the train, which consisted of six perlite loads from Imerys and two lumber loads from the Collins mill. Parker's visit came about three months before the new Eco Materials plant shipped its first loads, though they had some empties spotted at the plant on this day. |
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Parker first photographed the train at Willow Ranch Road as it skirted the shore of Goose Lake.
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The #917 rolls past piles of used ties scattered along the tracks on Sugar Hill that speak to the recent track work Goose Lake has been accomplishing.
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The train passing another pile of replaced ties at Davis Creek.
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An hour later the train comes back within sight of the highway in the Pit River Canyon on a stretch of newly laid rail.
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The train crossing over the Pit River on the longest bridge on the line near Surprise Station.
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The engineer stopped the train briefly near Surprise so Parker could frame this shot with the spring flowers.
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The train is on final approach to Alturas as it passes Milepost 463.
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The train has just crossed Highway 395 and is entering downtown Alturas. The milepost sign on the left is a relic of Frontier Rail's milepost renumbering system designed to differentiate mileposts on the Lakeview
and Modoc lines during the time they operated both, since both contained duplicate milepost numbers.
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One last shot of the train rolling through Alturas.
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Parker ended his chase at this time and started his return north. The West Coast Railroaders Group had an organized speeder run on the railroad this weekend that left Lakeview several hours after the train, but
Parker passed them on one of the stretches the highway and railroad separate. He settled instead of this shot of the #106 parked outside the enginehouse before heading for home. Thanks for sharing your pictures, Parker!
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