An eastbound intermodal struggles up the last couple miles to the summit of Donner Pass with endangered searchlights overhead. New replacement signals are set up behind where I was standing for th... (more)
Despite having crested the grade about 3/4 of a mile back, C45AC-CTE 7895, three additional head-end units, and two DPUs are still slowly dragging (and pushing) the tail of the MOGRV out of Tunnel... (more)
Exercising trackage rights over UP's "Sierra Crossing" (formally the Roseville Subdivision) as the QPVBCJ 04, BNSF H PVOSTO1 04A emerges out from the Norden snow sheds to begin the long ... (more)
UP 8248 is leading a doubled up 2x2x1 empty grain train over Donner Pass as it nears the summit between CP RV191 and CP RV192. For an empty it was really grinding to make the grade, though by time... (more)