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| August 24, 2010 | ||
| The Feather River Express was a special passenger train that departed Oakland, CA on Friday August 20 and arrived at Portola, CA that evening. The route it took was the very scenic Feather River Route of the former Western Pacific railroad. The famous California Zephyr passenger train traversed these rails decades ago so this was a sort of recreation of those glory days. On Friday, I was able to photograph it at Cromberg and the Clio Trestle which are on the last few miles before it arrived at Portola. After spending Saturday enjoying the events of the Portola Railroad Days, we woke up Sunday morning to give chase to the train on its voyage home. It departed Portola around 9am with the 14 passenger cars in tow and headed back through the canyon to Oroville, this time lead by an original Western Pacific GP20 number 2001. I hope you enjoy the photos from this trip! | ||
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| August 22, 2010 | ||
| I spent some time in Northern California and found a lone GP38-3 holding the Central Oregon and Pacific job at Weed. Since I was on vacation, I was able to catch some weekday action on Monday, August 16th where I chased it from Weed up to Black Butte. | ||
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| June 10, 2010 | ||
| A special train departed the Western Pacific RR museum (Portola, CA) on Tuesday and because of the unique consist, I loaded up my sons and headed up the Feather River Route to intercept. Its destination for the day was Roseville where it would spend the night before heading to the annual Dunsmuir Railroad Days happening this weekend. Our first sighting was a James which is on the western edge of the FR canyon and it descends down into Oroville and the valley through Marysville and then to Roseville. Follow along on our 100+ mile chase. | ||
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| March 29, 2010 | ||
| California Northern celebrated the its new genset locomotives with a one-car passenger special running between Davis and Corning on March 18. We first me the special a few miles north of Woodland and followed it all the way to Willows. We then turned back and caught up to the southbound freight working its way back to Woodland for the night. Here are the photos of the northbound chase. | ||
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| March 18, 2010 | ||
| Some railfan friends invited me to join them for a Saturday on Donner and we saw all types of weather. | ||
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| March 6, 2010 | ||
| Saturday opened up so I packed up the dog and my two sons and we headed up into the Sierras following the Roseville Subdivision. Clouds ruled the day but the sun shown a few times when it counted. | ||
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| February 14, 2010 | ||
| My entire family went railfanning today including the dog. We headed up the Roseville Sub towards Donner Pass and explored around Cape Horn, just east of Colfax. | ||
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| January 1, 2010 | ||
| Digging through some photos going back to 2006, here are some Southern Pacific relics. | ||
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