If you are heading south from Ashland on Interstate 5 you do the opposite. Right about where Mt. Shasta city is at the very southern edge of the city there is a turnoff for highway 89 which takes you over Snowman summit near where the Ski LIft is up to the left from there. YOu stay on 89 past McCloud and Burney Falls (which is worth seeing if you have time on Highway 89). When you get to Highway 299 turn right to the west towards Redding and head towards Interstate 5 and then south on 5 to your destination.
This is what all the truckers are already doing to avoid the fire going north and south.
Also, I just realized the city of Burney is on 299 not 89 like I thought before.
I think I was confused because I have visited Burney Falls which is a nice sight but it is on Highway 89. So, I guess I've never been to the town of Burney before on 299 that I can remember but I have been to the falls on Highway 89 several times over the years since about the 1950s with my parents traveling to and from Mt. Shasta then.
My father used to drive up 395 as an alternate more scenic route through the Sierras to Mt. Sahsta in the 1950s and 1960s even though I remember getting caught in a fire near Lake Tahoe and the fire had burned the power lines down and gas couldn't be pumped at all at the gas station. So, the gas station attendant went home and brought his gas powered generator and pumped 5 gallons each for his customers. He only gave 5 gallons each so everyone could get enough to get to the next gas station down the road that had power still. He didn't want anyone to burn up in the fire then so he only gave each person 5 gallons of gas.
Remember the Sierras are often 14,000 feet high or more so there aren't many roads from 395 in the desert near Nevada over the Sierras and some of them close in the winter like Tioga pass through Yosemite national Park by way of Tuolumne Meadows which gets covered with many feet of snow each winter. So, if you are traveling in the summer there are more routes across from 395 over the Sierras to where 99 and 5 are heading north and south through the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys.
For example, you can take 36 from Susanville from 395 over to 89 or you can take 49 or Interstate 80 which is the most popular way to cross the Sierras year around because it gets plowed even in the winter and this is the truckers route mostly too. The train also follows the route of Interstate 80 too from near Berkeley all the way to Denver and Chicago.
Note: After thinking about it the part about the train isn't actually true except over parts of the Sierras where you can see the train tracks from Interstate 80. So the train tracks ARE visible over parts of the Sierras from Interstate 80 but mostly they go different routes. But, the Train does go Through Reno and so does Interstate 80. And the train also goes through Winnemucca, Nevada and so does 80. And the train also goes through Elko, Nevada, and Salt lake City etc. and so does 80. So, likely what happened is the Train route followed the main routes west with covered wagons and buckboards and by horse which eventually turned into cars and trucks from Salt Lake City and Colorado somewhat and then 80 was eventually paved which is basically somewhat the same route as the train too.
What I had fun doing traveling on the train is to put the blue spot on my GPS on my phone on and when I had enough reception watch where I was on the map which is amazing to watch because it is far far away from Interstate 80 a lot of the time. So, this route likely has been here somewhat since May 10th 1869 when the golden spike was driven in Promontory, Utah when they completed the railway from Sacramento East to Nebraska where it connected into the Eastern railroads from most all railway destinations east of there. So, in some ways taking the train to Denver or Chicago or other points is a walk through history that goes back at least to May 10th 1869.
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The golden spike is the ceremonial 17.6-karat gold final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, ... The spike is now displayed in the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.People also ask
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The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile (3,077 km) continuous railroad line ... The Union Pacific built 1,085 mi (1,746 km) from the road's eastern terminus at ... The survey was detailed enough to determine that the best southern route ..... In 1904, the Lucin Cutoff, a causeway across the center of the Great Salt ...The Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads < The Iron Horse ...
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In 1862, Congress hastily passed the Pacific Railroad Act. This act led to the creation ... Barons, as in the case of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads[28]. ... for each of the rival railroads could have calculated the approximate meeting ... North and South · Asa Whitney · Conflicting Personal Interests · The Surveys ...Transcontinental railroad completed - May 10, 1869 - HISTORY.com
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May 10, 2018 - ... of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah ... therailroad would have to wait even longer, as North-South tensions ... from Omaha and Sacramento, forging a northern route across the country.
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