Done working on the Modoc Line, the Copic Local takes the west leg of the wye at Texum. The train will now work industries on the Shasta Route mainline.
The Copic Local passes the wig wag at Malone. It was the last "Magnetic Flagman" in service on the Modoc Line.
The Copic Local heads out the Modoc Line with one of the two SD9s that Southern Pacific regularly used on the SF Peninsula commute service. The train has empty beet racks to spot at the Merrill b... (more)
On Black Friday 1992, a trio of Cadillacs switch out the beet loader at Merrill, Oregon.
Working local industries in the Klamath Basin on the Modoc Line, the Copic Local arrives at Tulelake.
Late on a fall afternoon, the Copic Local arrives at Worden siding on the Shasta Route with several cars for the grain elevator.
At sunset on a late winter day, the Copic Local pounds the BN diamond at Stronghold. The upper quadrant semaphores were installed by Great Northern to protect the crossing with the Modoc Line. The... (more)
It's beet season in the Klamath Basin. The Copic Local is heading out the Modoc Line with empties for the beet loaders at Merrill and Stronghold.
A scrungy SP SD9 passes a wig wag crossing signal on the outskirts of Klamath Falls. Texum is the junction of the Modoc Line and the Black Butte Sub mainline. The Copic local worked as far as Tu... (more)
