One of my many ongoing projects is the Western Pacific/Great Northern Railroad's "Highline" link that starts at Western Pacific's main line at Keddie, Plumas County and goes north to Bieber where it then connects with the Great Northern's branch constructed south from Klamath Falls. Its an interesting line with its various feeder lines such as the McCloud Lumber Company at Lookout Junction. If anyone has information on this they would like to share, I would certainly like to hear from you. Big Valley Gazette (Bieber) 23 July 1931 1;4 - G.N. In California. "California, here we come." With this banner stretched across their mammoth track laying machine the Great Northern railroad laid is first steel rails in California territory at 3:45 p.m. Monday, July 20, and Jim Hill's vision became a reality. The first line of the transcontinental railroad to California is now complete. The first stretch of the 93 mile railroad to Bieber, Calif., where Great Northern will connect with the Western Pacific's northward extension extends from Klamath Falls to the California-Oregon state line, known in railroad language as Milepost 25, point 23. Work from Klamath Falls sought has been delayed somewhat by the construction of 30 timber and 8 steel bridges, but the construction to Bieber will be uninterrupted. The last steel bridge was completed Monday afternoon just a few minutes before the steel was laid across the state line. Other steel spans cross major irrigation ditches, highways and Lost River. The timber bridges which are constructed along with the grading, cross smaller ditches and canals. Several of these have already been built in California and are ready for the steel to cross them. Track laying will be rushed through to the cinder cone in the lava beds district 17 miles south of the border. Cinders from this point will be used to ballast the grades along the new railroad. This work will start as soon as the track is ready. The work trains running on skeleton track. Crews are laying 90 pound new rolling steel along the new railroad. Each section of steel is 39 feet in length, 6 feet longer than usually used for this purpose. Treated ties are being used and full tie plating. Two hundred and seventy-one rails are laid to each mile of track. By the time the railroad is completed 28,500,000 pounds or about 1500 tons of steel will have been used --- Klamath News.