The DPU on an Eastbound perishable manifest pushes hard up the grade through Tunnel 35.

Rear DPU on eastbound stack. If you look closely, you may notice the small notches cut into tunnel 36 to accomodate stack trains on Donner. The roadbed was lowered a bit through the tunnels to a... (more)

Rear DPU on eastbound freight.

An eastbouder heads through tunnels 35 and 36 on the single track portion over Donner.

#5 rolls out of Tunnel 35 and through the S-curve at Yuba Gap as it continues its westward journey to Emeryville.

8148 leads a quartet of power over Donner Pass just before entering Tunnel 36.

A Westbound manifest descends Donner Pass and enters a cut of rocks which leads to Tunnel 36.

8101 leads a quartet of U.P. power out of Tunnel 35 as it heads downgrade through Yuba Gap.

The topography of the Sierra Nevada mountain range varies from steep, tree-covered slopes to large, chunky rock formations, which is quite evident at Yuba Gap as 8101 leads the way out of Tunnel 3... (more)

UP 844 passes through Yuba Gap where the only way to escape all the railfans was to get up high.

I took the entire day off, drove all the way to the mountain, sat all day long, and this was it! It could and has been worse. In five trips to CSX main East of Clifton Forge I think I've seen on... (more)

UP 8101 and 3 other units drift downgrade and exit Tunnel 35 in sweet 7PM light.

At Yuba Gap, just West of where the SP's City of San Francisco was snowbound in 1952.

With my snow boots/pants left at home, I wasn't going to hike away too far into the Donner Winter leftover North face snow. So a simple Yuba-G wedgie shot from a rock 20ft from the tracks was fine... (more)

Steam, and snow! Who'da thunk we'd see steam in California in 2009, over Donner Pass?! UP 844 gently glides down the mountain on her Western Tour.