A long and slow moving westbound Roper manifest glides down the Donner Pass after exiting Tunnel 41 as the dynamics sound off from the DPU's at last light.

UP 1983 led this family day special from Truckee to Norden. Now, UP 7771 will lead it back down to Truckee and then to Sparks and back to Truckee to let the families of UP employee's can enjoy the... (more)

UP 8530 leads the North Platte to Roseville manifest out of tunnel 41, the big hole as it crests Donner Summit.

The Roper exits the big hole at Norden and begins the down hill decent to Roseville.

Westbound autos decend the grade off Donner Summit near Norden in the late afternoon.

Big SD45R No. 7424 roars out of the snowsheds at Norden on the point of an eastbound SP manifest.

The westbound Roper manifest finally reaches the summit of Donner and it begins to go down grade, but the five units on the front, and three in the back, are still chugging hard to get the rest of... (more)

Shoving hard on the rear of train MRVRO, UP 8518 is about to enter the big hole, Tunnel 41 as it crests Donner Summit.

The SP would soon be history, due to disappear into UP the following September. So I spent some time trying to get a few final pictures. I was looking for red noses lettered SP, but these DRGW i... (more)

After being in the part for two miles, UP 4968 pulls it westbound "Fruit Box" up and over Donner Pass as it now heads down hill as the sound of dynamics breaks the silence of the Sierra Nevada.

UP 3787 charges west at the headend of a mixed manifest train as in blasts into Norden Snowshed on California's Donner Pass Route. Fun times on "The Hill," indeed! www.alexramosphoto.com

Running at least 5-1/2 hours late, the westbound California Zephyr exits the "Big Hole" at the summit of Donner Pass. Quite a bit of snow lingers at this elevation; a testament to the heavy winter... (more)

Espee heritage on the hill. UP 1996 leads its 3 car OLS special out of the west portal of the "big hole" (tunnel 41) just east of Norden.

The sounds of four Union Pacific locomotives echo inside tunnel 41. Then finally, after its 2 mile up hill grind, UP 8613 exist the tunnel.

Opened on November 30, 1867, after two years of blasting, Tunnel 6 at Donner Pass was used continuously for 130 years by the trains of the Central Pacific, and Southern Pacific. The Chinese worked... (more)