May I make a correction, Treun? The former junction near Westwood was named Mason, 4 miles north of Westwood, and start of the Biz Johnson Trail.

The only stations in the area still preserved are at Wendel (at least it was) and Susanville. The SP depot in Westwood was dismantled in 1971, and the BNSF maintenance building there is on the old depot site. The new depot there was built about five years ago, and it has nothing to do with the railroad other than looking like a station, built along the tracks, several hundred feet south of the old one.

And a further correction, Mason was the connection between the SP and the WP.

I've never hiked the Biz Johnson trail, but it has several crossings of the Susan River, including the high bridge near where highway 36 crosses the river (although you can't cross it because of forest fire damage to an approach), and a couple of tunnels down near Susanville.

Lee Hower
Sacramento, CA