On a perfect January afternoon, one of the 2002 SLC Olympic units leads the southbound Brooklyn Trailers into Roseville for a crew change. The train is passing under Rainbow Bridge as it comes off... (more)

Antelope Western 1, built in 1889, leads the last train of the day back towards the train shed. The crew decided to have some fun and run a double header for their final run of Labor Day weekend. ... (more)

Antelope Western 1, built in 1889, leads the last train of the day through a tree tunnel back towards the train shed. The Society for the Preservation of Carter Railroad Resources restored this se... (more)

The hot ZG2OA with UPS traffic rounds the bend at Floriston on Track 2 with a short Sunday train. It will be an easy trip over Donner Pass for this crew with five GEVOs leading six double stacks.

High above the Bear River Valley, the ZG2LT glides down Donner Pass on a warm February day in 2013. This was the "trouble train" of the day, and the crew was busy trying to remedy lots o... (more)

Chasing fresh paint in the fresh snow sure does make for a nice morning of railfanning. Rolling through Soda Springs, a quintet of new GEVOs bring the ZOAG2 east over Donner Pass. The snow stickin... (more)

Chasing fresh paint in the fresh snow sure does make for a nice morning of railfanning. Rounding the bend at Yuba Gap, a quintet of new GEVOs bring the ZOAG2 east over Donner Pass. California had ... (more)

A quintet of new GEVOs makes for a great sight as the ZOAG2 rolls along the Truckee River at Boca. This hot UPS Z train had no trouble making track speed over Donner and now can coast downgrade in... (more)

The ZSPLT rounds the bend at Casa Loma as storm clouds begin to form at higher elevations.

A ubiquitous Heritage II Dash 9 leads two worn Warbonnet Dash 8s downhill through Caliente. In the background, an eastbound manifest waits its turn to wind along the mountain side.

The DPUs on this eastbound manifest have just a few miles to go before cresting the summit. A Grinstein made for a nice sight.

Brand new SD70AH UP 8854 and older (but spotless) UP 8732 pull the impressive Board of Directors Special alongside a field of beautiful California Poppies a couple miles railroad north of Aromas, ... (more)

On a warm winter afternoon, the IG3OAB heads west under the Verdi signal bridge on the east side of Donner Pass. Where's the snow...?

An increasingly rare sight, a red-sill stripe SD70ACe looks sharp as it leads an eastbound auto repo out of the Norden snowsheds.

Not long before the sun sets on a perfect fall day on Donner, a long and heavy KOAMN struggles to make track speed as it heads east on the single track between Switch 9 and Shed 10. The DPU shoves... (more)