Special at Scherrer Avenue - a photo on Flickriver

            In May 1990, the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the NRHS ran a special passenger train from Portland, Oregon to Redding, California. It left the Rose City on Saturday morning, overnighted in Redding, and departed for PDX on Sunday morning. It was billed as the "Shasta Daylight 1990," and included a brand new Cotton Belt GP60.

Back then, the full wye at Tehama was intact.  To turn a passenger train without any uncoupling or coupling, all you had to do was run it 46 miles south (railroad west) to Tehama, take a spin around the wye, and return to Redding for the night. After the passengers on the special detrained, the train was run to Tehama, turned on the wye, and then returned to Redding for the following morning's departure.  A similar procedure was done the following year when SP 4449 pulled the "Toxic Daylight" specials from Redding to Black Butte.

Today, between Amtrak's 'just say HELL NO' attitude toward special operations, and Union Pacific's removal of the Tehama wye track connecting the UP main with the California Northern, it is doubtful this scene will ever be repeated.  The trip also operated the following year.  Today, I really wish I had splurged and ridden one of the trains.

Taken in: United States / California / Dunsmuir (show map)

Taken on: May 13, 1990

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