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All aboard on Mothers Day

Sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Chapter NRHS, the "Shasta Daylight 1990" excursion was a Portland, Oregon to Redding, California roundtrip. The train ran to Redding on Saturday, and returned to Portland on Sunday. It was notable for using a brand new Cotton Belt GP60 as its lead locomotive...
- CPKirkie
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- Jan 26, 2025
- amtk amtrak california cotton belt excursion redding superliner
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- Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains
Very late snow

Despite the snow to the west on Shasta Bally, this manifest is entering Redding on May Day.
- CPKirkie
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- Nov 4, 2015
- redding sd70m shasta
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- Category: Western United States
Better Late Than Never

Fourteen hours late, the southbound Coast Starlight enters Redding, CA on a hot September afternoon in 2002.
- CPKirkie
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- Jan 6, 2008
- amtrak redding
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- Category: Bridges and Trestles
DD40X over Redding Trestle

UP DD40X running the FRRS Dunsmuir Special over the 1 mile long Redding Tretle
- Drewster
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- Apr 15, 2007
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- Category: Night Photos
A blast from the past at Redding

Less than six months after I had shot the SP 3207 in the SPSF "Kodachrome" merger scheme leading Amtrak 5, it was repainted to scarlet and grey for a Directors' Special to Oregon. This picture was taken August 23, 1987 at Redding, California. There were at least five people in the...
- CPKirkie
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- Jan 21, 2003
- 1987 officer's pacific redding southern sp3207 special trestle
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- Category: Special Trains, Charters and PV's