Amtrak will take you... Where no car or plane would dare take you. The passengers aboard the Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr wake up to the incredible mountain scenes of the Sierra Nev... (more)

She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes! Yeehaw! Union Pacific 844 rounds the bend at Andover, California as it makes it's way over Donner Pass. This train was heading to Sacram... (more)

Big Steam Over Donner Pass! The sound of Union Pacific 844 charging up Donner Pass breaks the peace of the forest near Andover, California. Union Pacific 844 was heading to Sacramento for t... (more)

The whine of EMDs dragging a long Z train echos throughout Coldstream Canyon as the UP 8701 rumbles through Andover on the famous Donner Pass Route.

Extreme snow fighting is BACK on The Hill! After a 13 year hiatus (not counting the March 2007 "training" run), Union Pacific was finally forced to bring out the SP Rotaries the last week of March... (more)

About an hour into its second trip over Donner finds the SPMW 209 cleaning up the leftovers of an Eastbound Spreader set up Main #1. This single Rotary set included the SPMW 8208 "snail" for elect... (more)

A morning Z train roars up the grade through Cold Stream Canyon at Andover.

To start off my first day on Donner Pass, I do a short hike up to the tunnel at Andover. We were greeted by a EB stack train as we wait for this Oakland bound Z.

The snow is flying and an Eastbound stack train screams in dynamics dropping deep into Coldstream Canyon, after taking down the light at MP 198. The detector just 4 miles away gave us a "1-1 degre... (more)

Sleet falling drones out the sound of EMD and GE's thundering up the 1.6% grade out of Coldstream Canyon. The wet rails are giving this SD9043MAC some troubles, and their speed is down to 11MPH, l... (more)

At one of the highest elevations along UP's route over Donner Pass, the signal bridge at mile post 198 watches over a west bound freight about to enter Tunnel 42 at Andover.

Listen...can you hear it? It's getting closer...... There's nothing like being at 7000 ft elevation in total darkness and silence and seeing and hearing a heavy freight grinding up ... (more)

On a spectacular Summer morning, a trio of SD70M's gently drift down the 1.6% grade and enter Tunnel 13, soaring high above the uncovered oversized septic tank called Donner Lake. Much thanks to J... (more)

Soaring high above Donner Lake, UP 4265 leads a train of autoracks over Donner Pass on a beautiful summer morning.

As the morning fog begins to lift, the westbound Z train climbs the grade out of Coldstream Canyon at Andover.