Passenger train on a logging railroad

            On the Saturday of Labor Day weekend 1983, Oregon, California & Eastern hosted a passenger special for Great Western Tours and the Pacific Northwest Chapter NRHS. The train was to cover the entire OC&E from Klamath Falls, Oregon to the end of track at Bly.  

The four cars at the front of the train had arrived from Portland the previous evening on the rear of Amtrak 11, the southbound Coast Starlight.  The rear five cars had arrived that morning on the back of Amtrak 14.  Sadly, the northbound Coast Starlight was a couple of hours late into Klamath Falls due to an electrical fire in its Superliner dining car that morning.

It was Labor Day weekend, so the vast majority of OC&E operating employees were elsewhere because there would be no trains running other than the passenger special.  OC&E had called the crew for the varnish to coincide with the scheduled arrival of Amtrak.  Because of the late arrival, if the train crew expired on their hours of service there would be no relief crew available.  Because the last 12 miles into Bly were strictly a ten mile per hour proposition, OC&E officials did not think they could get the train all the way to Bly and back to Klamath with their sole crew.

As an alternative, the train was taken to Sycan, where OC&E interchanged with the Weyerhaeuser Woods Line.  Passenger were given the run of the Sycan Shop while the power ran around the train.  In this image, the train is in Klamath Falls, slowing to a stop to load passengers behind the Cimarron Motel.  

Unfortunately for me, I had color print film in my camera when the train rolled up.  I recently found some old negatives, and this was one of them.

Taken in: United States / Oregon / Altamont (show map)

Taken on: September 3, 1983

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Camera: Plustek OpticFilm 8200i (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Plustek OpticFilm 8200i
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Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 15.0 (Windows)
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