Over the Christmas holiday we traveled up Highway 395 into Oregon and then west to Portland. Along the way we stopped in Lakeview long enough for me to get a few shots of the Lake Railway, a short line running from Lakeview to Perez, CA where it interchanges with the Union Pacific.
This is the engine house in Lakeview. In the distance you can see the railroad’s one and only locomotive.
Here is a closer shot of the engine house, taken from the other direction.
A closer shot of the locomotive, an EMD GP49 formerly owned by Alaska Railroad.
And finally, one more picture of the locomotive. I was told by someone working at the agricultural inspection station just inside the California border (which is adjacent to the track) that the locomotive has broken down and the railroad is using a modified tractor-trailer as power instead. I would have loved to get a picture of that running down the track, but unfortunately we didn’t happen to see it.
