Open Rails - SP Shasta Route | Black Butte Sub | Train PTPCX (Klamath Falls - Dunsmuir)

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SOUTHERN PACIFIC SHASTA ROUTE (TS):
https://www.trainsimulations.net/sp-s...
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Westbound PCX:

Take the hottest train on the railroad, the westbound Pacific Coast Express intermodal powered by a trio of GP60's across the Shasta Route on a cold winter morning.


About SP Shasta route:

The SP Shasta Route covers the entirety of Southern Pacific Railroad's Black Butte Subdivision from Dunsmuir, California to Klamath Falls, Oregon.
From the railroad town of Dunsmuir in the upper Sacramento River Canyon, the line climbs a grueling 2.2% grade up and out of the canyon, negotiating Cantara Loop, the tightest curve on any SP mainline. The grade eases slightly climbing through Mt. Shasta City and around the massive cinder cone of Black Butte to the junction with the Siskiyou Line at aply-named Black Butte.
Beyond Black Butte, the line climbs steadily through a volcanic wasteland of ancient lava flows while circling around the base of Mount Shasta itself, crossing several bridges including the soaring Dry Canyon Bridge. While circling the mountain, the climate changes from lush coast range fir forests to arid pine forests and high-desert sagebrush scrubland. The climb finally ends at Grass Lake at the top of the Cascade range, nearly 5,100 feet above sea level.
From Grass Lake, the railroad takes a long sweeping descent through the arid pine forests in the rain shadow of the Cascade Range until reaching the valley bottom, where trains sprint northward toward Dorris and the Oregon state line, with Mount Shasta still in sight to the south. Past Dorris, the line drops one last time to the floor of the Klamath Valley near Worden. From Worden, there is one final sprint through the marshes and farm fields to the terminus at Klamath Falls, a major lumber industry hub.
This representation of the Shasta Route is in the last two years of Southern Pacific's existence (1995 and 1996), with a wide variety of motive power appearing, from battle-worn SD45's and tunnel motors to brand new GP60's and SD70M's. The majority of the traffic is composed of heavy lumber trains heading from Oregon to California and their empty counterparts, but this is interspered by hotshot intermodal trains, and of course Amtrak's Coast Starlight.