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Photos now available on SmugMug

I am gradually posting my photo collection on a photo sharing site called SmugMug. For those of you that purchase prints from me at swap meets, these are also available for purchase on the site, including the popular snapshot sizes! I never have the full collection with me at any swap meet – it’s just too hard to check to see which ones are missing. It’s also expensive (and time-consuming) to have hundreds of prints made and only sell a small percentage at any given show.
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UP 6562 West crosses under itself at Williams Loop on the Feather River Route in California, June 10, 2011.
Photo by David Cooley.

Call for Photos: Feather River

Sonrisa Publications is working on a new railfan guide for the Feather River area and is looking for photos to illustrate it. New and unpublished photographers are encouraged to submit their work. Details are at http://www.djcooley.com/frc.htm.

Feather River work train

On my first railfan trip to the Feather River, I managed to follow the UP 4351 East through the Canyon from Oroville to Keddie Wye on March 15, 2009. Weather was marginal by California standards, but just about what I’d expect back home in Washington. UP 4351 East was an interesting train to watch since it was not your typical train full of double stacks, pigs or grain hoppers. It was a work train with all kinds of equipment for establishing a base camp for a work crew far from home.

0:20 Crossing Lake Oroville
1:23 Coming through cut below James
1:59 Approaching Pulga
2:23 Meet westbound double stack at Merlin
5:12 Crossing the river at Tobin
5:38 Honeymoon Tunnels
6:47 Serpentine Canyon
7:09 Keddie Wye

UP4351 crosses Lake Oroville	UP4351 at James
UP4351 high above the Feather River	UP4351 on the Keddie Wye

Portions of the trip were shot pacing the train from across the river on the highway.

Video and photos by David Cooley. You can subscribe to my railroad videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/davecooleyvideo