Steam & Excursion > A Conductor's View Behind Steam On The Shasta Route!

Here is another in my series of lucky railfans who were able to hop aboard steam freights back in the day and get a crewman's perspective with their camera.

Today's photo was mislabeled by the unnamed photographer as Likely Loop on the Modoc Line. Thanks to those folks below we now know that is is on the Shasta Route between Black Butte and Andesite.

Thanks for spotting this so I can correct the negative sleeve.

Martin



Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 01/26/15 14:20 by LoggerHogger.

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NOT Likely Loop. Not even on the Modoc. Note the block signal.

This is a view between Black Butte and Andesite on the Shasta Route main line.

Best regards,

Rob L.

rob_l Wrote:
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> NOT Likely Loop. Not even on the Modoc. Note the
> block signal.
>
> This is a view between Black Butte and Andesite on
> the Shasta Route main line.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rob L.


I agree. The Likely Loop runs more or less through cuts in the side of the hill. And as Rob L. points out the block signal is definately not Modoc there.

TonyJ Wrote:
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> rob_l Wrote:
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> > NOT Likely Loop. Not even on the Modoc. Note
> the
> > block signal.
> >
> > This is a view between Black Butte and Andesite
> on
> > the Shasta Route main line.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Rob L.
>
>
> I agree. The Likely Loop runs more or less through
> cuts in the side of the hill. And as Rob L. points
> out the block signal is definately not Modoc
> there.


I will be the third to agree. The Modoc has never been signaled territory. Definitely along the Shasta Route somewhere.

Matt Starman
Greenleaf, ID

My guess is that it is just east of Black Butte, on the first left hand curve after the east switch. If you were able to back the camera up, it would show Mt. Shasta where a lot of pictures were taken of trains coming at you. The track goes thru that cut, across "The Devil's Garden" and to the west switch at Hotlum.


Nudge

spnudge Wrote:
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> The track goes thru
> that cut, across "The Devil's Garden" and to the
> west switch at Hotlum.
>

While the tracks do negotiate a petrified lava slide between photo curve and Hotlum, I thought the spectacular petrified lava slide that earned the name "The Devil's Garden" was the one the tracks bisect just above Dry Canyon Trestle.

Best regards,

Rob L.

Google Earth view . . Definitely just outside of Weed. Cut, hill in background and the forest service road are a match



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/26/15 15:19 by cgarch.

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I don't understand the Google shot. Is the line abandoned there? Relocated?

Copy19 Wrote:
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> I don't understand the Google shot. Is the line
> abandoned there? Relocated?

Looks like perfectly good main line RR track to me. Starting in the lower right and curving up the grade and to the left in the distance.

The image looks like track covered with dirt on my PC and mini pad. The landscape in the foreground is blurred as if the image was taken at speed.

I can see rails on the right hand side.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/27/15 17:12 by wabash2800.

Hey,where did the pine trees go? Looks just like approach to Pequop siding, east of Wells/Moore,Nevada!..And regarding blurred track: You never know what parts of images Google might blur out now-days,for security reasons. Or one would think the image was taken by a drone, or a Google camera car having a very bumpy ride!, but the shadows look almost sharp. Anyway another great photo! (#1).

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/28/15 14:39 by RailRat.