Siskiyou Line

HO scale – during the 1980s
Owner: Joe Fugate
SP’s Siskiyou Line in Southern Oregon during the 1980s. Famous “Mushroom” concept layout.
“The prototype Siskiyou Line begins at Springfield Junction a few miles southeast of Eugene Yard ... from there the track ran south 300 miles through Roseburg, Grants Pass, and Medford to Black Butte, California.
At Black Butte, the Siskiyou Line rejoins SP's Shasta Line between Klamath Falls, Oregon and Dunsmuir, California. Click here for a map.
Included in my model Siskiyou Line is a freelanced version of the Coos Bay branch, built out of Roseburg, Oregon as originally planned in the late 1800s. However, when the Coos Bay branch was actually completed in the early 1900s, it exited the main at Eugene, so the real Coos Bay - Roseburg branch only made it as far as Myrtle Point, Oregon.
On my model, I alter history and assume the Coos Bay branch made it all the way to Roseburg instead, and the connection out of Eugene was never built.”