Western Railroad Discussion > Harsco Grinder at Salt Creek

Up in the Oregon Cascades today you could find slush, sparks, and an Officer's Special. The latter was the reason I made the trip, but the rest made the journey in the wee hours of the morning through the "Cascade Concrete" (slush)worth the effort.

I hope you enjoy!

Frame 1: The B-end of RMS-6 appears through the snow-covered trees just south of the siding at Heather on UP's Cascade Subdivision. The grinder had track and time between Heather and Wicopee.

Frame 2: Same Location as the grinder heads for Wicopee

Frame 3: Looking the opposite direction, the A-end crosses Salt Creek Trestle heading up-grade. (SP West, UP South)

Cascade463

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Frame 4: From Highway 58 we catch the grinder as it makes one of three passes on the curve at Salt Creek Trestle.

Frame 5: Let the sparks fly!

Frame 6: This State Trooper thought he was making another routine traffic stop...Until hot sparks began raining down from above!

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Frame 7: Oh yeah...The Officer's Special...The reason I made the trip in the first place! This is below Fields at place known as "The Slide"...Not to be confused with the 2008 slide at Frazier.

Frame 8: This is a northbound Z train at Chiloquin MP 457 on the Cascade Sub.

Thanks for looking!

Cascade463
www.7ideaproductions.com

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Ah, so that's where cars Stanford and Sunset were going last Saturday when they were tacked on the end of Amtrak Tr.14. Nice stuff.

I wonder how many Salt Creeks the UP ex-SP crosses. We've got a reference to a Salt Creek on the Sunset Route a few posts down, and there's another on the Shasta line north of Redding, CA. And are there more Salt Creeks than Dry Creeks?

Actually, someone caught them at the old Union Station in Seattle elsewhere on this site. Another mystery solved.

cascade463 Wrote:
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> "Frame 6: This State Trooper thought he was making
> another routine traffic stop...Until hot sparks
> began raining down from above!"

Hope that stain don't show on dark uniform pants! ;<)

Bob