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.

Amtrak No. 5 pauses at Truckee for passengers. At right, a Jordan spreader awaits the snows of the coming winter.

On a clear fall afternoon in the Sierras, Amtrak train No. 6 accelerates out of Truckee after picking up passengers. In the early part of their career, Amtrak placed its GE "Pepsi cans" on the Cal... (more)

After a stormy afternoon on the "Hill", the signal bridge at Truckee is showing all reds with a stunning sunset for a backdrop!

It's a bitterly cold December evening in Truckee as an eastbound prepares to depart. The engineer is comfy in his nice warm cab, while I'm outside freezing in order to get the photograph.

Westbound stacks crossover at East Truckee due to MOW near the big hole (shed 47).

A matched A-B-A-A set of covered wagons still in the "black widow" livery are eastbound near Truckee on the SP Donner route. This is probably around 1960.

Outfitted for snow fighting, former Espee GP38-2s #4844 (UP 605) and #4839 (UP 602) are seen waiting their next assignment in Truckee, California.