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Dunsmuir, California Trip, part 1, 18-19 Aug 2017
The Calrailfans had a camping meet at Cantara Loop, above Dunsmuir, California, the weekend of 18-21 Aug 2017. In the event, only one guy camped out at the loop. Several of us stayed in hotels. Anne came with me, so we stayed in a hotel in Dunsmuir.
The drive up I5 took about 3.5 hours, not including a stop for lunch in Willows. The traffic was a bit thicker than normal with people heading north to Oregon to view the eclipse.
Along the way, we saw a California Northern train near Zamora. I got a grab shot through the windshield.
Dunsmuir was smokey from forest fires in Oregon and the first two days we were in the area, we had no views of Mt. Shasta due to the thick smoke.
Our first night in Dunsmuir, we ate at a restaurant near the track and the ZLCBR, the Los Angeles-Portland intermodal, train came through during dinner. After we ate, I took a walk and wound up at the station, where a southbound MOW train stopped for a crew change.
Dunsmuir has always been a railroad town and if the railroad does not have the backshops that it had in steam days, there are memories of the SP in things like a semaphore signal in front of the post office.
On Saturday morning, I drove to Cantara Loop and hung out with several of the other guys for a while. A northbound manifest came through while I was there,and the first fellow to arrive had seen a tardy northbound Coast Starlight and another freight. After the manifest passed, the lineup showed nothing for several hours, so after visiting a bit more, I went back into town and had lunch with Anne.
After lunch, I wandered to the station, where Phil, a member of our group who works as a UP conductor and lives in Dunsmuir had just arrived on a southbound train. We visited for a while, along with John and David, who were also at the depot, before it was time for me to head back for dinner.
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Dunsmuir, California Trip, part 1, 18-19 Aug 2017
The Calrailfans had a camping meet at Cantara Loop, above Dunsmuir, California, the weekend of 18-21 Aug 2017. In the event, only one guy camped out at the loop. Several of us stayed in hotels. Anne came with me, so we stayed in a hotel in Dunsmuir.
The drive up I5 took about 3.5 hours, not including a stop for lunch in Willows. The traffic was a bit thicker than normal with people heading north to Oregon to view the eclipse.
Along the way, we saw a California Northern train near Zamora. I got a grab shot through the windshield.
Dunsmuir was smokey from forest fires in Oregon and the first two days we were in the area, we had no views of Mt. Shasta due to the thick smoke.
Our first night in Dunsmuir, we ate at a restaurant near the track and the ZLCBR, the Los Angeles-Portland intermodal, train came through during dinner. After we ate, I took a walk and wound up at the station, where a southbound MOW train stopped for a crew change.
Dunsmuir has always been a railroad town and if the railroad does not have the backshops that it had in steam days, there are memories of the SP in things like a semaphore signal in front of the post office.
On Saturday morning, I drove to Cantara Loop and hung out with several of the other guys for a while. A northbound manifest came through while I was there,and the first fellow to arrive had seen a tardy northbound Coast Starlight and another freight. After the manifest passed, the lineup showed nothing for several hours, so after visiting a bit more, I went back into town and had lunch with Anne.
After lunch, I wandered to the station, where Phil, a member of our group who works as a UP conductor and lives in Dunsmuir had just arrived on a southbound train. We visited for a while, along with John and David, who were also at the depot, before it was time for me to head back for dinner.