"I felt I had pushed the S.P. A Federal inspector says that because of complaints from the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, he canceled a safety inspection at one of the company's rail yards. while exploring the tracks in the Dunsmuir California area I happened upon these old and abandoned SP train cars.
"There is a great concern for safety by the railroads," he told the hearing. "TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers.This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Visitors come to fish trout in the Sacramento and McCloud Rivers, or to see and climb Mount Shasta, Castle Crags or the Trinity Alps. A derailment and chemical spill outside Dunsmuir in 1991 obliterated wildlife in the Sacramento River for 40 miles.

The cause of the derailment is under investigation, said Aaron Hunt, Union Pacific media spokesperson. The discovery of gold at Yreka, California dramatically increased movement through the site of Dunsmuir, and a toll bridge and stagecoach hotel were built at Upper Soda Springs.Upper Soda Springs is on the banks of the Sacramento River in Dunsmuir, California, USA.Visitors ski (both alpine and cross-country) and bicycle, or can hike to the waterfalls, streams and lakes in the area, including nearby Mossbrae Falls, Hedge Creek Falls, Lake Siskiyou, Castle Lake and Shasta Lake.The Little Castle Lake Trail continues on to Mt. "They have programs which work, and as a result you will find that safety on the railroads nationally and in California has measurably increased. Paton. Bradley, a locally prominent mountain with views of Mount Shasta, overlooking Dunsmuir, California and the canyon of the Upper Sacramento River.Dunsmuir City Park and Botanical Gardens is a 10 acre municipal park and botanical garden maintained by Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens Inc., a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization of volunteers within Dunsmuir City Park.Dunsmuir City Park and Botanical Gardens is a 10-acre (4 ha) municipal park and botanical garden maintained by Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens Inc., a non-profit 501(c)(3)organization of volunteers within Dunsmuir City Park in the city of Dunsmuir, California near Mount Shasta.At the time of the first European-American contact in the 1820s, the site of Dunsmuir was within the range of the Okwanuchu tribe of Native Americans.The Okwanuchu occupied territory south, southwest, and southeast of Mount Shasta in California, including the present-day cities of Mount Shasta, California, McCloud, California and Dunsmuir, California; on the upper Sacramento River downstream to North Salt Creek; in the Squaw Valley Creek drainage; and on the upper McCloud River downstream to where it meets Squaw Valley Creek.Visitors come to fish trout in the Sacramento and McCloud Rivers, or to see and climb Mount Shasta, Castle Crags or the Trinity Alps.Mount Shasta City and Dunsmuir, California, small towns near Shasta's western base, are focal points for many of these, which range from a Buddhist monastery (Shasta Abbey, founded by Houn Jiyu-Kennett in 1971) to modern-day Native American rituals.Located in the Shasta Cascade area of Northern California, Dunsmuir is a popular destination for tourists.The civic "capital" of the Shasta Cascade area is Redding; other cities and towns are Alturas, Biggs, Chico, Dunsmuir, Mount Shasta, Red Bluff, Oroville, Paradise, Weed, Fall River Mills, Burney, and Yreka.Dunsmuir is currently a hub for tourism in Northern California, with Interstate 5 in California passing through it.In Siskiyou County, I-5 passes through Dunsmuir before intersecting SR 89 near Lake Siskiyou and entering the city of Mount Shasta.The discovery of gold at Yreka, California dramatically increased movement through the site of Dunsmuir, and a toll bridge and stagecoach hotel were built at Upper Soda Springs.The pair then stole a car from a patron and drove north to Dunsmuir, California, where they planned to abandon the automobile and make a getaway by train.Shasta Springs was the name of a popular summer resort on the Upper Sacramento River, during the late Nineteenth Century and early Twentieth Century.It was located just north of the town of Dunsmuir, and just north of Upper Soda Springs along the Siskiyou Trail.During the 1820s, early European-American hunters and trappers passed through Dunsmuir's site, following the Siskiyou Trail.In California the trail went through or near modern-day Redding, Dunsmuir and Yreka.During the steam locomotive railroad era, it was notable for being the site of an important Central Pacific (and later Southern Pacific) railroad yard, where extra steam locomotives were added to assist trains on the grade to the north.
More news to follow. about as far as I could," Mr. Paton said of his decision to cancel the Colton inspection. "What it sounds like you're telling me is that in the wake of four inspections that scare the hell out of me, you decided to pull out of the Colton yard because it placed a great burden on the company," Mr. Katz told Mr. Paton testified that neither of the two locomotives cited as the cause of the Dunsmuir wreck nor the faulty freight car blamed for the Seacliff accident would have been inspected at Colton on June 23. On July 14, 1991, a Southern Pacific train derailed on a stretch of track known as the Cantara Loop while crossing the upper Sacramento River near Mount Shasta, just north of Dunsmuir, California. 1991 Dunsmuir, California derailment; no human deaths but vast numbers of aquatic animals poisoned to death by chemical leak 1991 Union Square derailment , New York City; 5 … The car's entire load spills into the river. On the night of July 14, 1991, a Southern Pacific train derailed into the upper Sacramento River at a horseshoe curve of track known as the Cantara Loop, upstream from Dunsmuir. My field reporter is on the scene. "That's basically what I'm saying," Mr. Paton replied.The committee also heard testimony from R. F. Starzel, Southern Pacific's vice chairman, who disparaged the inspections of early June as "white-glove tests," saying that things like dirty windshields had been counted as safety violations. The six cars were empty and no injuries were reported, and no spills occurred. "We do have a serious dispute with them whether, in fact, the defects which they cite are of such a nature as to be a concern to public safety," Mr. Starzel said.