A screeching echo bounces off the canyon walls as Union Pacific 1983 drags a 111-car manifest over the Sacramento River. Just south of Sims, deep in the mountains of Northern California, you can f... (more)

As Bear Grylls would say, "water follows the path of least resistance". It is for this reason railroad tracks often follow rivers through the mountains. Rivers carve out a narrow path through the ... (more)