The Western Pacific heritage unit runs light eastbound to Portola to join the Big Boy event after being pressed into service to assist a freight train the prior day.

In November of 2009, Union Pacific instituted a major change to operations in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Numerous tunnels along the Donner Pass Route were retrofitted in order to fit double stac... (more)

Five SD40-2s lead an eastbound UP vehicle train over the Clio Viaduct.

The Domes To Portola special crosses the Clio Trestle on its return to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Crossing the Clio Trestle,Amtrak 137 and 203 pull a mix of private cars to Portola Railroad days.

Harkening back to the days when the California Zephyr plied the rails of Western Pacific's 3rd Subdivision, the westbound Feather River Express rolls across Clio Trestle with former California Zep... (more)

After waiting for the ZNPOA to clear, the eastbound ZDLSK loaded salad shooter hurries onto the Clio Trestle, with all engines in full throttle.

Military equipment from Oxnard, CA to Herlong, NV cross the spectacular Clio trestle, deep in the Feather River Canyon.

The quiet still of a beautiful August morning is broken by the equally beautiful sound of a turbo-charged 567 EMD prime mover. WP GP20 #2001 is again on the point of the Feather River express as i... (more)

Eight units trot East towards Portola, crossing the famous and massive trestle at Clio.

UP 844 charges Eastbound across the Clio Trestle and is a few miles from Portola.

Clio, CA is known to many railfans familiar with the Feather River Canyon as THE trestle shot to shoot. Even with rain out for most of UP844 FRC Steam day, many locations still managed to work out... (more)

UP 844 with the hammer down crosses the Clio trestle enroute to Portola.

In a close approximation of a famous California Zephyr publicity view used by WP for the 1954 Annual Report cover, the 1994 Portola excursion train crosses Clio Trestle in early evening sun, inbo... (more)

A quintet of venerable SD40-2s lead an MINPV across the towering Clio Trestle.