 In prior years, northbound freight and passengers bound for Klamath Falls and other eastern Oregon destinations left the Southern Pacific main line at Weed, California, using the McCloud Railway to transit the southern slopes of Mt.Shasta to Bartle, California.Bartle is some thirty miles east of the mountain and, at that time, the southern terminus of the Bartle Fast Freight Road used by Stage Coaches and Freight Wagons to reach Laird's Landing on the southwest shore of Lower Klamath Lake.