TRAVELING OVER THE FORMER WESTERN PACIFIC FEATHER RIVER CANYON AND HIGHLINE

GREAT NORTHERN'S INSIDE GATEWAY AND SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S SHASTA ROUTE.

OCTOBER 10: EMERYVILE-MARTINEZ-DAVIS-SACRAMENTO-OROVILLE-WESTWOOD
OCTOBER 11: WESTWOOD-KLAMATH FALLS-CHEMULT-KLAMATH FALLS
OCTOBER 12: KLAMATH FALLS-REDDING-CHICO-SACRAMENTO-DAVIS-MARTINEZ-EMERYVILLE

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Itinerary:

DAY 1 THURSDAY OCTOBER 15: Depart Emeryville onboard Amtrak's California Zephyr to Truckee, transfer to a chartered motorcoach to the Portola area and upper Feather River Canyon. Visit Chris Skow's G scale garden model railroad and his extensive railroad museum and green house. Dinner provided by a Mexican food caterer, with a grand buffet all you can eat dinner with unlimited margarita's on his deck overlooking the Mohawk Valley in Blairsden. After dinner transfer to local lodging in the Portola area.

DAY 2 FRIDAY OCTOBER 16: Visit the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola. Mid-day we board our charter motor coach and head back south to Truckee and on to Tahoe City where we will make a stop for lunch. Continue around the south and east shores of Lake Tahoe then on to Carson City, where we visit the Nevada State Railroad Museum. After our museum visit hotel check-in in Carson City

DAY 3 SATURDAY OCTOBER 17: Visit the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. East Gate Station just a few miles east of Carson City. We board our charter steam train and back down into the Carson River Canyon for a number of photo run-bys. We return to the East Gate Station at 9:30AM so the steam locomotive can be serviced prior to the 10:00AM public departure for Virginia City. We will stay right onboard and ride this train on up the hill to Virginia City making a number of photo run-bys on the steep grades in the Comstock. Upon arrival in Virginia City you will have plenty of time to explore the downtown area and get some lunch and visit the V&T workshops. We then board our motor coach to Reno in order to board the eastbound California Zephyr to Elko.

DAY 4 SUNDAY OCTOBER 18: Depart Elko on our charter motorcoach to East Ely, Nevada. Upon our arrival we will visit the Nevada Northern Railroad workshops before boarding our charter steam train to make photo run-bys up to Keystone.

DAY 5 MONDAY OCTOBER 19: Nevada Northern Depot. We will have both steam locomotives fired up and in operation. A number of photo run-bys will be run in the morning sun with both steam locomotives and different train consists in the East Ely yard. We then depart East Ely onboard our charter bus to Wendover, Nevada. This will be our dinner stop before continuing on east to Salt Lake City, Utah. Here we will board Amtrak's California Zephyr for the journey back to the Bay Area.

DAY 6 TUESDAY OCTOBER 20: Departing Reno the Zephyr starts the climb into the Sierra Nevada Mountains soon crossing into California and over Donner Pass. Arrival back in Emeryville is scheduled for 4:10PM.

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This page last updated on 2/14/2015.