I spent last weekend camping at Cruzatte in the Oregon Cascades. Traffic here is down considerably due to the ongoing effects of the economic downturn, the weak California housing market, and more Oregon lumber going via the Columbia Gorge and Ogden rather than the Cascades and Roseville. Even so, it's still special experience to listen to a heavy southbound grinding up the grade for over an hour on a moonlit summer night.

QHKRV emerging from Tunnel 6 and passing under the former SP signal bridge.

Friday, July 23, 2010

~1600, southbound freight (QPWRV?)
1724, northbound freight (MRVHK)
1927, Amtrak 11
2252, QHKRV-23, 3x1 power, 45 cars

Saturday, July 24, 2010

~0120, ZLCBR-23
0253, ZBRLC-23, 3x0
~0515, northbound freight, 25 cars
0753, MRVPW-23, 3x0, 70 cars
0815, MRVPT-23, 3x0, 42 cars
1001, Southbound freight, 3x1, 88 cars (QPDRV? Much later than "usual")
~1050, Amtrak 14, Rail Ventures PV on rear
1203, Southbound welded rail train, 3x0
1909, Amtrak 11
1935, QPWRV-24, 3x2, 92 cars

Sunday, July 25, 2010

0019, QPDRV-24, 3x1, 63 cars
0124, ZBRLC-24, 4x0,
0217, QHKRV-24, 3x1, 90 cars
~0330, southbound freight (early QPWRV?)
~0610, northbound freitht (MRVPW?)
0824, MRVPT-24, 3x0, 58 cars

More photos on my Flickr site.