When rails came to town: Shasta's railroad history Around Panorama Point, a set of Union Pacific diesel locomotives navigate an elevated curve as they pull a string of freight cars north toward the community of Anderson. As the last rail car clears the curve, the engineer inside the cab slowly applies the throttle and the train quickly fades away in the distance. More than 140 years prior, 1,000 mostly Chinese laborers were grading a path ...
June 25, 2013 - Anderson Valley Post