American Auto Trail-California & Northeastern Railway (Dorris to Weed CA)

This American Auto Trail explores U.S. Highway 97, from Dorris to Weed, California, along the former California & Northeastern rail line. For more of our Auto Trails and Slow Travels guides, available in print or eBook format, use one of the links below: Amazon Lulu Press Follow us on Twitter (X) for video posts or visit our webpage at www.autotrails.net . You can also support this channel by buying me a coffee at the link below: Buy Me A Coffee Camera: Sony Active Camera FDR-X3000 Vehicle: Avis Rental 2026 Chevrolet Trailblazer Image Credits: Penoyar – Bullinger’s Postal and Shippers Guide (https://www.google.com/books/edition/...) Music Credits: New Land/ALBIS Highway One/Steve Adams Happy Sixth/Freedom Trail Studio For Time to Disappear/Go by Ocean-Ryan McCaffrey Reverie/Quincas Moreira Western Spaghetti/Chris Haugen Town of 24 Bars/Unicorn Heads Higher Kiss/TrackTribe Alta Loma Terrace/Wes Hutchinson Heaven and Hell/Jeremy Blake Blue Macaw/Quincas Moreira Stellar Wind/Unicorn Heads Life of Riley/Kevin MacLeod Map Credit: © OpenStreetMap contributors Many map images are courtesy of: David Rumsey Map Collection Endnotes: 1) Poor’s Directory of Railroad Officials 1893; American Banknote Company, New York, 1893; https://www.google.com/books/edition/... 2) “Construction”; The Railway Age, Volume 15, Number 7; August 18, 1905; https://www.google.com/books/edition/... 3) “California”; American Lumberman, Number 1559; April 8, 1905; https://www.google.com/books/edition/... 4) Ramsey, Eleanor and Lewis, Janice; “A History of Black Americans in California”; Five Views; California Office of Historic Preservation; December, 1988; https://www.google.com/books/edition/... 5) History of Siskiyou County, California; D.J. Stewart & Company, Oakland, California, 1881; https://www.google.com/books/edition/... 6) Gudde, Erwin; California Place Names, The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names; University of California Press, Berkeley; 1998 7) California, A Guide to the Golden State; Hastings House, New York; 1939 8) “Butte Valley National Grassland”; U.S. Forest Service; https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/klamath/a... 9) “Chapter 13, History after 1849”; Mount Shasta Annotated Bibliography; College of the Siskiyous; https://www.siskiyous.edu/library/sha...