Snowfighters: At the base of Union Pacific’s Donner Pass crossing, one of Southern Pacific rotary snowplow sets rests at Truckee, California, on March 12, 2004. Sitting next to the plow are two sp... (more)

Union Pacific #844 coasts downgrade through Andover, CA. The train is bound for Sparks, NV for the night. Andover is both a historic site and a scenic wonder for photography, situated just up the... (more)

UP's reefer train from the San Joaquin Valley to New York, named the "Super Fruit", because of it's commodity; fruits and vegetables; rolls down Donner Pass and along the Truckee River.

The Donner Pass Route is famous for the incredible amount of dense-wet snow that buries this line every winter. Keeping this line open during the winter is up to a small group of dedicated men and... (more)

A former AC6000, now a 4400 horse powered unit, leads a westbound stack train slowly rolls along the Truckee River as they prepare to stop at Truckee to let an auto train a head of them to clear t... (more)

A westbound UP manifest with a renumbered SD9043MAC leading pauses in Truckee while the crew grabs a quick snack before continuing west over Donner Pass.

A green light at West Truckee lights up the steel rail for an eastbound QFRNPP that stalled on the hill.

Waiting. "Dispatcher 74 to the UP 8687 west over." "UP 8687 over." "Yeah guys hold there before the grade crossing in Truckee to allow for the Roper (which is 15 minutes ahead) to pass Shed... (more)

The piece of the small mountain town of Truckee, California is broken by Union Pacific 8687 as it blasts through downtown on it's way west down the Donner Pass Route.

After encountering some major power problems with the second and third units near Floriston, Union Pacific 8626 and a long, 130-car stack train limp into Truckee where UP mechanical will come to c... (more)

Four UP units slowly rolls along the Truckee River as they prepare to stop at Truckee to let an auto train a head of them to clear the Big Hole Tunnel.

A Wing Man... The sound of the quietness of downtown Truckee at sunrise is broken by the sounds of two of UP's finest. An ES44AC and a SD70M tackle the monstrous grade of Donner Pass. The ... (more)

Three Amtrak P42's glide the now-defunct 18-car American Orient Express downstream along the Truckee River east of Truckee, Calif. en route to Reno, Nev. on Oct. 22, 2007. The luxury train, the... (more)

On a snowy afternoon in Truckee, a private car brings up the rear of Amtrak No. 6.