Western Railroad Discussion > CN grain train through Dunsmuir this morning

Got up at the crack of clouds this morning to chase the CN grain train. The crack of clouds was a really cool lighting storm that blew through here this morning. 

Robert Morris Photography

Photo#1 Passing Mt Shasta at Mott.

Photo#2 Passing through Dunsmuir.

Photo#3 Crossing Castle Creek.

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Heres some more. The weather improved as we headed south..

Photo#4 Along the Sacramento River at Gibson.

Photo#5 Crossing Salt Creek Trestle. This location would be under about thirty feet of water with a normal year.

Photo#6 The DPU's passing over the old Highway 99 bridge high and dry.

Robert Morris Photography

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Nice but the last two don't give me any warm fuzzies about the state of our water supply.

BobP Wrote:
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> Nice but the last two don't give me any warm
> fuzzies about the state of our water supply.

We'd gladly send you some from Texas if we could...

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Great shots Bob!

Thanks for catching this. I swear they schedule these only on days I have to work early.

Adam

Nice to see locomotives with red noses and black long hoods in the Sacramento River Canyon.  A clean matched set, no less.  

Ted in OR

Great series of shots, I really like #3!

Yeah, nice work!
-The Driver :-)

Ryan Wilkerson
Fair Oaks, CA

There's an interesting CalTrans Roadcam that overlooks the I-5 Pit River bridge, you can watch the water circling the drain, click on the area near the Lake and then the red dot off the road next to the I-5 bridge, it's called Bass Mountain:

http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist2/cctv/shastaco.html

Drove over the bridge last night, I've seen the Lake a lot worse but can't speak to time of year or volume;  This morning the Weather guys are getting all excited about Ocean warming already.

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> Nice but the last two don't give me any warm
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/06/15 16:07 by TCnR.

Nice pics!!

Great shots, but pathetic water level in Sac River... looks as bad or worse than the Truckee.  Pray for snow/rain this coming winter...