A class numbered AC4400CWCTE is on point of an eastbound grain train as it struggles to gain elevation through Yuba Pass

An eastbound coal train makes its way through Yuba Pass

AGBMI-19 rolls through Yuba Pass on its way westward coming downgrade

Soaring high in the sky on a rock ledge near Yuba Pass, CA, Union Pacific 7735 works hard to move a monster intermodal train over the infamous Donner Pass Route.

The calm and serenity of the Sierra Nevada Mountains is broken as a long stack train comes rumbling through Yuba Pass on the Roseville Subdivision. Union Pacific 8660 is helping this train on it's... (more)

Westbound Zepher exits one of many tunnels on Donner Pass.

After emerging from Tunnel 35, UP 5314 swings the KG2LT through an S curve as it drops down the Western Slope of Donner pass.

Over a foot of heavy and wet snow clings to the granite of Donner Pass, while Amtrak 5 gently and quietly exits Tunnel 35 on its way down the mountain.

Fall colors are barely visible through the thick fog that's surrounding the mountainscape of Donner Pass, while a Westbound enters the rock cut leading to Tunnel 36.

After I trudged through two feet of Sierra Cement, I was greeted by a UP 7431 leading a Westbound I train out of Tunnel 36.

As the last rays of sun light hit the opening of the steel framed tunnel at Yuba Gap, an westbound mixed freight pops out in to blinding sun light.

UP 1996 at Yuba Pass (Tunnel 35).

Double stacks roll west through the tunnels at Yuba.

A westbound reefer block rolls over Donner Pass on a beautiful late winter day.

I have seen many UP units lead the Zephyr when a P42 goes down. Yet I have never seen a snow service GP38 do the honors.