The derailment of several empty freight cars earlier this month along the Cantara Loop near Dunsmuir backed up train traffic for hours and reminded residents of past disasters along the tricky stretch ...

This year’s Annual Dunsmuir Railroad Days has a new addition: An excursion passenger train is coming out of the San Francisco Bay Area and bringing folks to Dunsmuir on Friday, June 10. Leave the car ...

2001-07-09 04:00:00 PDT Cantara Loop,-- Stand on this railroad trestle and look upstream, then down. The view is much the same: a lovely river with water like translucent jade, sheltered by ...

2003-08-01 04:00:00 PDT Dunsmuir, Siskiyou County-- A Union Pacific freight train jumped the tracks in the upper Sacramento River canyon Thursday morning, sending five empty railcars tumbling into the ...

* Isleton: It’s all about dads on Father’s Day weekend--crawdads, that is. The Crawdad Festival, June 15-17, will serve up about 22,000 pounds of the seafood, a crawdad-eating contest, crawdad races ...