Where revenue freight runs no more - a photo on Flickriver

            On the last day of our 1988 railfanning trip to Arizona and California, our luck was somewhat mixed. We did have some good fortune in Woodland, at the end of the day. 

The previous evening, we had gone to Cooperstown on the Sierra Railroad. We camped out there, with the idea that if the Sierra ran, the train would not sneak by us. Unfortunately for us, we never did find anything turning a wheel.

In early afternoon, we intercepted a train on the Central California Traction. That led to a nice chase, which was sadly cut short by a flat tire outside of Lodi. 

After we got the flat fixed, we decided to cut and run for home in Klamath Falls. After zipping though Sacramento, we took a side trip through Woodland. It turned out to be a productive diversion.

On the Union Pacific's Woodland Branch, we caught UP's Woodland Local working a spur. The trackage was part of Western Pacific subsidiary Sacramento Northern. Roughly five and a half years after UP acquired WP, we were pleased to find an ex-WP GP40 powering the Woodland Local. As it turned out, this was not the only Class I action we would catch in Woodland that evening.

Four years later, UP spun off the Woodland Branch for continued operation as a shortline. That arrangement ended in 2021 with abandonment of a short stretch of trackage at the Sacramento Weir. Although this trackage is intact, it is now isolated.

Taken in: United States / California / Woodland (show map)

Taken on: July 8, 1988

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