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Old Train Thursday. Readers Contribution Day

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Phil sent me this substack, courtesy of Uncle Clif of the above four pictures https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/around-the-world-in-4-hours
Both above pics sent in by FeralFerret. Looks like he took them from his cell phone.
Looking West. Two lane Highway 70 near Quincy, CA is directly above this tunnel.
Looking East.  The Union Pacific track on the right continues up the Feather River Canyon and goes over Beckwourth Pass. The track on the left heads north to Bieber, a major junction between the Great Northern and Western Pacific railroads for north-south traffic, now owned by BNSF Railway.
If you ever want to go on a train watching vacation the Quincy area is the place to go. Just east of Quincy is the one-mile-long Williams Loop, where if you’re lucky you might see a freight train passing over/under itself. I was lucky enough to haul logs in the canyon for a couple of summers. It sure was fun. It’s kind of lucky I didn’t run off the road while watching the trains! The three above pics, sent in by Elmo, the Log Truck Driver.
 
Another Phil sent in.
Something is wrong, no graffiti.