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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/80014607@N05/">ThomasWMutherJr</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/80014607@N05/53663834993/" title="Mount Shasta"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53663834993_0e16390122_m.jpg" width="240" height="145" alt="Mount Shasta" /></a></p>

<p>From the road to Castle Lake in Northern California<br />
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As always, best seen in lightbox (click on expand arrows at upper right).<br />
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As noted in a recent upload, visiting here was a spur-of-the-moment thing. I was on my way to the Oregon Coast and found myself nearby, so why not?<br />
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I kept hoping that I would eventually see the tip-top of Shasta, but it seemed as if the mountain itself was determined to remain hidden. Clearly, as the wind blew over its crest, clouds were continually created. In spite of the shy mountain, it was a very pleasant detour, beautiful scenery replete with a little nude sunbathing (if interested, see: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/80014607@N05/52125831088/in/album-72177720300018964/">www.flickr.com/photos/80014607@N05/52125831088/in/album-7...</a> ).</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dschultz742/">david g schultz</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dschultz742/53628818765/" title="Mt. Shasta"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53628818765_826a2556a7_m.jpg" width="240" height="135" alt="Mt. Shasta" /></a></p>

<p>Mount Shasta is a stratovolcano, which is a type of volcano with steep sides. It's also a compound volcano, which means it's made up of at least four main structures that were built over a period of at least 590,000 years.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/goatboat/">C.P. Kirkie</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/goatboat/53619886217/" title="Why it's the Shasta Route"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53619886217_263c012ebc_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Why it's the Shasta Route" /></a></p>

<p>A westbound manifest freight, led by one of Southern Pacific's 25 SD70Ms, highballs through the reverse curves near the former station of Pioneer, California. A late season storm has deposited a fresh coating of snow on Mt. Shasta. <br />
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By March 1999, when this Kodachrome was exposed, the former Espee SD70s were in their fifth year of service. Big change would be coming soon, once Union Pacific began its massive orders for new power.<br />
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I had previously shot this job on the Dry Canyon Viaduct. This train must have taken siding for a meet somewhere, which would have enabled me to get ahead with enough time to set up for this image.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/200319766@N08/">mpkxra</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/200319766@N08/53618058791/" title="IMG_4322"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53618058791_602d49230e_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="IMG_4322" /></a></p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/goatboat/">C.P. Kirkie</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/goatboat/53605518565/" title="Eastbound at Upton"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53605518565_f78b6e7ab6_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Eastbound at Upton" /></a></p>

<p>A year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, an eastbound manifest with a pair of SP SD70Ms passes a ballast train at Upton, California.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/goatboat/">C.P. Kirkie</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/goatboat/53604103467/" title="PTLAT Passing Mount (Uncle) Eddy"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53604103467_9aa2aa5b3c_m.jpg" width="240" height="135" alt="PTLAT Passing Mount (Uncle) Eddy" /></a></p>

<p>Having departed Brooklyn Yard in Portland the previous evening, Southern Pacfiic's PTLAT (Portland Terminal to Los Angeles Trailers) is rolling through the heart of the Shasta Route at Upton, California. That mountain in the distance is Mt. Eddy, part of the Trinity Alps. It is a beautiful summer morning in June 1987. In less than an hour, the hotshot will pause at Dunsmuir for a crew change.<br />
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My Great Uncle Eddy Wakeman was one of the reasons I have a strong interest in railroading. He lived in Dunsmuir and worked as a conductor for Southern Pacific. When he made trips to Klamath Falls, we would often pick him up for dinner. Several of those trips would include a stop so Uncle Eddy could stock up on cigarettes before he worked his way home to Dunsmuir. As I recall, he could pick them up for $2.49 a carton, a huge savings over what they sold for in California.<br />
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After he retired, I often dropped by his home in Dunsmuir when I was out railfanning. Eddy would tell his tales of days spent working for the Friendly Espee. The house he and his wife lived in was on Scherrer Avenue, next to the main line. One visit, he told me to always park my car close to the house - away from the right of way - because "That's really bad track out there!"<br />
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Now that Uncle Eddy has crested the final summit, whenever I see an image of Mount Eddy I am reminded of him - especially if the image has a train.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/goatboat/">C.P. Kirkie</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/goatboat/53597948117/" title="Why the 80s were cool..."><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53597948117_a3cdc6bb9f_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Why the 80s were cool..." /></a></p>

<p>This image of an OAPTT at Upton, California has just about all of what made Southern Pacific fun to railfan in the 1980s - big power, "L" shaped engineer windsheld, full light package, and Mount Shasta.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/57440551@N03/">lhboudreau</a> posted a video:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/57440551@N03/53596491503/" title="Serene Lake Siskiyou"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/31337/53596491503_38feaf7f56_m.jpg" width="240" height="135" alt="Serene Lake Siskiyou" /></a></p>

<p>Lake Siskiyou is a reservoir formed by Box Canyon Dam on the Sacramento River in far northern California, near Mt. Shasta. The lake is used for watershed protection and flood control and it's the site of local recreation.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/sam_schmidt/">Sam Schmidt</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sam_schmidt/53594584960/" title="Mount Shasta Reflected in Lake Siskiyou"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53594584960_3b8671503c_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Mount Shasta Reflected in Lake Siskiyou" /></a></p>

<p>Driving up from Davis Shasta slowly grew in size, it actually looked most impressive from about Red Bluff where it just completely dominates the northern skyline. But, views from the nearby Lake Siskiyou were also very nice.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/sam_schmidt/">Sam Schmidt</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sam_schmidt/53594344813/" title="Mount Shasta Reflected in Lake Siskiyou at Night"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53594344813_d73b97bd84_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Mount Shasta Reflected in Lake Siskiyou at Night" /></a></p>

<p>A long exposure night shot, the Moon was slightly under first quarter, lots of light to light up the Mountain, but it did mean less stars. The Milky Way was also nowhere nearby, but if you got a clear, moonless night with the Milky Way in a good position you could get an amazing shot from here.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/goatboat/">C.P. Kirkie</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/goatboat/53586892485/" title="The hill at Black Butte"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53586892485_0e694ea175_m.jpg" width="240" height="171" alt="The hill at Black Butte" /></a></p>

<p>On an early spring Sunday in 1991, Southern Pacific's PTLAT rolls through Black Butte, California. The boxcars at left will likely be taken up the Siskiyou Line for loading sometime later in the week.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/goatboat/">C.P. Kirkie</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/goatboat/53577560126/" title="Two crops of the PTLAT at Hotlum (1 of 2)"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53577560126_e87a511009_m.jpg" width="240" height="135" alt="Two crops of the PTLAT at Hotlum (1 of 2)" /></a></p>

<p>I have discovered that I have multiple slides exposed at Hotlum, California on July 23, 1988. As the memory banks fade a bit, I have to go with data written on the slides to fill in the blanks. Here are two crops of Southern Pacific's hot PTLAT (Portland Terminal's Lake Yard to Los Angeles Trailers) rolling through Hotlum from that day.<br />
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On this date, my first shot was up at Worden, a couple of miles north of the state line. I caught my friend Phil Gosney running Amtrak 14, roughly on schedule based on the lighting in the image. Following that, I drove down to Cougar and caught a rerouted lumber drag from the embargoed Modoc Line there. Afterward, I went to Hotlum siding and captured several images. Based upon the sun angles, my guess is that the dispatcher used Andesite siding to park the lumber drag I had shot earlier at Cougar, allowing this PTLAT to pass. <br />
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This is the full frame crop. Off in the distance, you can see Oregon's Mt. McLoughlin. It is almost 70 miles north of Hotlum. Mark Hemphill, the cantilever at the SP east end of the siding is also in view. <br />
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It is moderately amazing to me that these photos are now three and a half decades old. Sic transit gloria mundi.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/goatboat/">C.P. Kirkie</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/goatboat/53578005215/" title="Two crops of the PTLAT at Hotlum (2 of 2)"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53578005215_aa3dc29d40_m.jpg" width="240" height="135" alt="Two crops of the PTLAT at Hotlum (2 of 2)" /></a></p>

<p>I have discovered that I have multiple slides exposed at Hotlum, California on July 23, 1988. As the memory banks fade a bit, I have to go with data written on the slides to fill in the blanks. Here are two crops of Southern Pacific's hot PTLAT (Portland Terminal's Lake Yard to Los Angeles Trailers) rolling through Hotlum from that day.<br />
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On this date, my first shot was up at Worden, a couple of miles north of the state line. I caught my friend Phil Gosney running Amtrak 14, roughly on schedule based on the lighting in the image. Following that, I drove down to Cougar and caught a rerouted lumber drag from the embargoed Modoc Line there. Afterward, I went to Hotlum siding and captured several images. Based upon the sun angles, my guess is that the dispatcher used Andesite siding to park the lumber drag I had shot earlier at Cougar, allowing this PTLAT to pass. <br />
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This image is cropped more closely to make the locomotives more prominent. Off in the distance, you can see Oregon's Mt. McLoughlin. It is almost 70 miles north of Hotlum. Mark Hemphill, the cantilever at the SP east end of the siding is also in view. <br />
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It is moderately amazing to me that these photos are now three and a half decades old. Sic transit gloria mundi.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/goatboat/">C.P. Kirkie</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/goatboat/53572917094/" title="Never made it back"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53572917094_1448a73321_m.jpg" width="240" height="135" alt="Never made it back" /></a></p>

<p>On a marginal March day, an eastbound rolls by Mt. Shasta, a few miles past Black Butte siding. At the time, the dynamic brakeless ex-MoPac SDs were fairly common on the Shasta Route. I liked this angle, and vowed to go back when the skies were clear. <br />
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One of these days I'll get back there...</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/24354425@N03/">sjrankin</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/24354425@N03/53570728243/" title="Mount Shasta in the Winter"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53570728243_110d6f0b91_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Mount Shasta in the Winter" /></a></p>

<p>Edited <b>ISS070</b> image of Mount Shasta (with a cloud at the summit) (north is down) in the winter.<br />
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<b>Original metadata</b>: GMT058_16_21_Jasmin Moghbeli_SN1026_CEO Target IDC Wildfire in Guatemala</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/24354425@N03/">sjrankin</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/24354425@N03/53569673117/" title="Mount Shasta in the Winter, variant"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53569673117_258f3fa629_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Mount Shasta in the Winter, variant" /></a></p>

<p>Edited <b>ISS070</b> image of Mount Shasta (with a cloud at the summit) (north is down) in the winter. Color/processing variant.<br />
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<b>Original metadata</b>: GMT058_16_21_Jasmin Moghbeli_SN1026_CEO Target IDC Wildfire in Guatemala</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/goatboat/">C.P. Kirkie</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/goatboat/53566375091/" title="Icons"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53566375091_d302607e68_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Icons" /></a></p>

<p>Awaiting a call for work train service on Tuesday morning, a Southern Pacific SD9 spends Memorial Day Weekend 1986 parked at Black Butte, California. At the time, the Nevada Northern gondola coupled to SP 4427 was somewhat exotic.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/amtrakdavis22/">Jake Miille</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/amtrakdavis22/53566277421/" title="Evening at Lakehead"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53566277421_d8ef54123a_m.jpg" width="159" height="240" alt="Evening at Lakehead" /></a></p>

<p>After slowly winding through the Sacramento River Canyon, the UP 8903 picks up speed as it heads south through Lakehead, California. Maximum authorized speed increases from 25mph to 40mph near Lakehead. Heavy southbound trains can quickly gain momentum before making the short climb to Obrien. <br />
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UP 8903 — Manifest — Lakehead, California <br />
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March 16th, 2023<br />
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Jakemiillephotography.com</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/amtrakdavis22/">Jake Miille</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/amtrakdavis22/53555334842/" title="14 Leading 14"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53555334842_910373ff68_m.jpg" width="240" height="167" alt="14 Leading 14" /></a></p>

<p>Amtrak’s P42DC #14 leads the northbound Coast Starlight train #14 through Andesite, California. Amtrak’s “Genesis” locomotives are becoming less and less common throughout the West Coast Routes. Amtrak has opted to use the new “Charger” locomotives, manufactured by Siemens. Amtrak #319, the second locomotive on this train, is one of the new Siemens Chargers.<br />
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Passengers aboard the Coast Starlight are waking up to a beautiful summer morning along the Shasta Route. In the distance, you can see the 9,037’ Mount Eddy. Mount Eddy is the highest peak in the Trinity Mountains. The foothills directly west of Andesite still wear the destruction of the 2021 Lava Fire, which burned over 26,000 acres along the base of Mount Shasta. <br />
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AMTK 14 — AMT14 31 — Andesite, California <br />
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August 1st, 2023<br />
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jakemiillephotography.com</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/prudencepeachtree/">Patricia Colleen</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/prudencepeachtree/53552975431/" title="Mount Shasta - 2012"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53552975431_f6a682be73_m.jpg" width="240" height="164" alt="Mount Shasta - 2012" /></a></p>

<p>It does not seem that long ago that I first<br />
laid eyes on California's Mount Shasta.<br />
I was not expecting her, was ignorant of<br />
her location, we were driving south, crossed<br />
the Oregon border and soon after she<br />
appeared - GASP!! - so beautiful - I snapped<br />
dozens of shots as we drove along.<br />
It was quite a wonderful experience.</p>

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