Keith Ode Wrote:
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> - SP West Side line through the Willamette
> Valley.
>
> - Santa Fe and SP's multiple secondary through
> routes between Stockton and Bakersfield. The
> lines I'm thinking of were severed many decades
> ago and became the SJVR routes of today.
>
> - SP's former South Pacific Coast route over the
> Santa Cruz Mountains.
>
> - The SP's Santa Rosa branch. I know the NWP and
> SP we're operated separately, but the NWP and SP
> both had routes between Schellville and Santa
> Rosa.

Can't remember the exact year, think it was 1996. The hot LA to Portland pig (formerly the LABRT,) was detoured at Albany and up the Westside Branch. Was quite a sight. Don't think they ever exceeded 30mph. The detour was very well photographed. There was quite a crowd following it. This was due to flooding around Aurora from the Pudding River, naybe the most aptly named river on the planet.