Eastbounder passing through tunnels 35 & 36 at Yuba Gap.

Dynamics screaming, the smell of brake smoke is what makes Donner Pass. Watching these monstrous grain trains rounding the curves at a snails pace, UP5781 leads a heavy 18,000 ton grain tra... (more)

A UP locomotive pokes its head out of the first of two tunnels on Track 2 at Yuba Pass. The unit is leading a heavy grain train down Donner Pass.

After meeting an eastbound at Shed 10, this loaded covered hopper train rolls downhill on Track 2 through Yuba Pass on a gorgeous late Autumn day in the Sierras. The train is passing the site wher... (more)

Westbound "Z" train exits the west portal of tunnel #36 on its trip west.

Westbound grain train enters Tunnel 36 on its way to Roseville.

Descending Donner on the Roseville Sub 30 minutes before sunset.

BNSF 5432 exits tunnel 35 on 1 of 2 bottleneck single track sections of Donner Pass at M.P. 175.8

Westbound on the original Central Pacific right of way, Amtrak #341 is leading the Zephyr over what has become known as "Streamliner Curve" the location of the stranded City of SF in 1952. The tra... (more)

Amtrak #110 is just West of where SP's City of San Francisco stalled in the snow in 1952. It was snowing this day in early 1975 as the Reno Fun Train is on the way home but the sure footed F's eas... (more)

SP "tunnel motor" #6795 is at what is known as "Streamliner Curve" at Yuba Gap, so named as it was here the "The City of San Francisco" became snowbound in January of 1952. The SP, under President... (more)

Standard Roseville sub power is on the point of this eastbound manifest approaching Tunnel 35.

I really enjoy the exposed granite and rugged mountain scenery at Yuba Pass.

An Onion Pacific unit, UP 4393, handles eastbound autoracks through the reverse curves at Yuba Pass, approaching Tunnel 37.

Amtrak F40 #341 is leading the Westbound California Zephyr thru Yuba Gap. The train itself is strung out over "Streamliner Curve", so named because it was the location where SP's City of San Franc... (more)