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Photo: SP Klamath Falls Yard
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Photo: SP Klamath Falls Yard Photo from the Klamath County Museum. Description: “The Southern Pacific Railroad switchyard at Klamath Falls in shown in this photo taken around 1930. Klamath Falls became a major switching hub once the SP completed the Natron Cutoff, and made it the main line up and down the West Coast.” Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA |
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Bob,
Thanks for posting this picture of Klamath yard. I don't think anyone would consider the caption "the main line up and down the West coast" as being particularly descriptive. I'm sure that is how the photo is captioned ... just saying that going thru Klamath was an alternative to the Siskiyou line. Still a nice picture and thanks. - Jim in the PNW |
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Hello all,
It turns out that the SP "main" -DID- shift to the K Falls route and was very much in use ... and carrying more traffic than the Siskiyou line. I've been told by someone who knows the SP much better than I. Thanks for the correction, BD. - Jim |
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My recollection is hearing that the Siskiyou line was quite torturous, hence the alternate route. Even Amtrak takes the alternate route. Rode it many years ago from Seattle to Oakland. Ted Larson -- Ted Larson Trainweb.org/MHRR --- GN in 1965 --- NASG.org |
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If that photo really is from 1930, I wonder if the large number of SP (and T&NO) box cars seen together (without foreign cars) were in storage due to the economic circumstances of that time period. To be sure through traffic went by the far easier and faster route through Dunsmuir and Klamath Falls as soon as the line was built. On 9/4/2022 7:12 PM, Jim Betz wrote: Hello all, --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts |
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