The UP 600 flies through Soda Springs slinging snow everywhere....what a sight!
The flanger awaits the next crew on the balloon track in Truckee, CA
A flanger enters the east end of the Norden Shed before crossing over to the #1 track to help keep the tracks clear.
For some reason, I decided to point my camera towards the clearing in the trees as the eastbound train headed towards the Soda Springs grade crossing, as luck would have it the westbound came at t... (more)
Northbound UP 5700 winds through Marcel along side another train stuck in the hole.
The red light from the flanger lights up the nose of the frigid locomotive
Snow fighters!! Just The spreader begins to work west on track #1 while the eastbound flanger waits. Those tracks in the foreground were from me, it was about mid thigh deep-with snow shoes.
The front end and the rear end power the train up and around Bealeville, CA
About 1 track mile west of the Soda Springs crossing the westbound auto begins its decent towards Roseville
UP 5679 grinds down the rails just after sunset at Sandcut, CA
Puffy clouds, bright blue sky and a clean doublestack creep accross Cienega Creek
Look at the nose of the UP 600...Its frozen solid!
A close up of the blade of a flanger as it sits in Truckee, CA
The flanger power gets refueled during a light snow as the sun peaks through the clouds
Just after sunset this southbound train races towards the curvy terrain of Tehachapi
