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Paradise Lost

            Back in the day, I used to joke with railfans that the area around Southern Pacific's Siskiyou Line should be called "Siskiyoulineland."  Basically unchanged since it was built in the 1880s, the Siskiyou was a railfan Disneyland.  

This scan of an MEWCM snaking across the Shasta Valley in April 1987 is a good case in point. It illustrates both the 19th-Century 'no frills' engineering of the Siskiyou and the awesome scenery. The Cotton Belt caboose was just a bonus.

Trains still run here today.  However, a couple of Genesee & Wyoming GP38s with a dozen or so freight cars just isn't the same.

Taken in: United States / California / Metcalf (historical) (show map)

Taken on: April 12, 1987

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

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