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| The Feather River Express was a special passenger train that departed Oakland, CA on Friday August 20 and arrived at Portola, CA that evening. The route it took was the very scenic Feather River Route of the former Western Pacific railroad. The famous California Zephyr passenger train traversed these rails decades ago so this was a sort of recreation of those glory days. On Friday, I was able to photograph it at Cromberg and the Clio Trestle which are on the last few miles before it arrived at Portola. After spending Saturday enjoying the events of the Portola Railroad Days, we woke up Sunday morning to give chase to the train on its voyage home. It departed Portola around 9am with the 14 passenger cars in tow and headed back through the canyon to Oroville, this time lead by an original Western Pacific GP20 number 2001. I hope you enjoy the photos from this trip! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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