This list was last revised in November 2026:
Central Oregon and Pacific Railway
CORP service to Weed and Black Butte, sporadic since the September 2022 fire at the Roseburg mill in Weed, ended altogether on December 11, 2025, after Roseburg Forest Products closed its Weed veneer plant on December 3. There is currently no CORP activity at Weed or at the Black Butte interchange, and the future of the Siskiyou Line south of Medford is uncertain. CORP continues to operate its core Eugene–Roseburg–Medford line.
Union Pacific
UP trains use symbols indicating the type of train and the origin/destination, rather than train numbers. These are the most common symbols used on the Shasta Division:
A – Autoracks
I – Other intermodal/double stack train
BR – Portland (Brooklyn Yard)
EU – Eugene
LA – East Los Angeles
LC – Los Angeles Transportation Center (LATC Yard)
M – Mixed, or manifest, freights
PD – Portland (Albina Yard)
PT – Portland (Lake Yard)
PW – For interchange to/from Portland & Western RR
RV – Roseville (near Sacramento)
TM – Tacoma (TACSIM, Tacoma South Intermodal Terminal)
WC – West Colton Yard (southern California)
Z – Fast intermodal train of trailers (piggybacks), containers, doublestacks
Note that since the advent of “Precision Scheduled Railroading” in early 2019, many train symbols and some routings changed, and they have continued to change since that time. The intermodal symbols below were checked against Union Pacific’s 2025 and 2026 operating plans; the manifest (M) symbols were last confirmed locally in September 2023.
Northbounds
ZLCTM — Intermodal Los Angeles (LATC Yard) to Portland/Brooklyn Yard. A small portion then continues to Tacoma. Runs daily and is through Black Butte in the evening, Most often early evening but sometimes several hours later. Domestic double stacks, may have a few international containers up front and pigs. Usually has DPUs (except on Mondays when it is shorter), the only northbound to have them.
MRVHK — Manifest originating in the Roseville departure yard to Hinkle, Oregon. Will work Eugene, Albany/Salem, and Albina Yard in Portland. Usually a wee hours departure out of Roseville, meaning it will come through Black Butte late morning/mid-day. Often has a few CP cars and/or pinkish Potash Corp grainers. In mid-2023 it was common for this train to depart Roseville southbound and then turn north onto the ex-WP in Sacramento and then get back on the ex-SP at Marysville.
MRVPD — Roseville, CA to Portland (Portland Terminal’s Lake Yard) general manifest freight. May have coil cars, autoracks, BNSF and CN boxcars and empty lumber.
MRVEU — Roseville, CA to Eugene mixed freight, often with lots of empty lumber racks. Often does a set out at Redding, CA and may also work at Klamath Falls, OR. It has sections for CORP, P & W, Coos Bay and local traffic in Eugene. Mostly empty lumber racks, UP/SP/Golden West boxcars, maybe a few covered hoppers (aka grainers). Unlikely to have coil or autorack cars nor CN/BNSF boxcars.
Note: At times one or more of these general manifests may go dead at Lakehead (north of Redding) then eventually get a new crew and roll straight through Dunsmuir, unless they need to stop for clearance, then on to the next crew change location at Klamath Falls.
Southbounds
ZBRLC — Portland (Brooklyn Yard) to Los Angeles (LATC Yard). The daily southbound intermodal. Tacoma traffic arrives at Brooklyn on the ITMBR and is built into this train; it no longer originates in Seattle. Typically the longest train on the district, mostly empties, usually three units on the head end and no DPUs. Mainly domestic 53s and some pigs. Timing through Black Butte varies widely. An occasional demoted section runs as IBRLC.
MHKRV — Manifest originating at Hinkle Yard in eastern Oregon. Will work Portland/Albina Yard and perhaps Eugene before continuing south to Roseville, CA. May have a few Canadian cars.
MEURV — This train is built in Eugene from hand offs from the CORP Roseburg train as well as from the Portland and Western and Coos Bay Rail Link. Identifiable from its many Oregon loaded lumber cars (Roseburg, Roseboro, etc). Unlikely to have CN/BNSF boxcars, autoracks, nor coil cars. Often seen mid-afternoon at Black Butte. In May 2025 CORP leased 28 miles of UP track in the Eugene area and took over service to more than twenty customers there, so some Eugene-area local traffic now reaches UP through CORP as well.
MPDRV — Portland/Albina Yard to Roseville manifest. May work Eugene Yard. May have Canadian lumber loads.
Note: Not all of these GM trains always operate every day and, at times, more than one section of one of these trains can run. In addition to these listed trains, UP also operates occasional unit oil trains (tar sands oil going via CP/Hinkle to a refinery near Bakersfield) and unit grain trains (often BNSF reroutes or with CP power). Other unit trains are very rare these days.
Amtrak
Northbound
#14 “Coast Starlight” — Amtrak’s Los Angeles to Seattle train departs Dunsmuir at 4:58 AM and, if on time, passes Black Butte about 5:35 to 5:45 AM daily.
Southbound
#11 “Coast Starlight” — The southbound Starlight is scheduled through Dunsmuir at 12:45 AM, so if on time it passes Black Butte shortly after midnight. It is frequently late.