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‘Shasta Daylight’

By Brian Schmidt | August 4, 2021

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Looking up at orange and red diesel locomotives on curved steel trestle

Shasta Daylight

The Oakland-bound Shasta Daylight rumbles over the big, curved trestle at Redding, Calif., in mid-1950. The Shasta was diesel-powered from its July 1949 launch. James L. Martin photo

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