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Domes Over Donner Pass

Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA

May 24-26, 2008

Story and photographs by Richard Elgenson
RailNews Network writer


Railroad ties are stashed on a center track.
   
The photos below illustrate the balloon track for turning snow fleet equipment.
   
We met another manifest train being pushed up the grade.
   

   
This railroad is perched on above some extremely deep canyons.  Plus, the weather seemed to be improving
   
With lunch was this Kahlua chocolate cheese cake.
   

   

   
At Colfax, the card players were hard at work.
   
By the time we got to Roseville, the sun was shining bightly.  The fire fighting locomotive basks in the sun, never to be called upon again.
   
Rotary snowplows and flangers await next winter.
   
There appeared to be four sets of rotary snow plows, each mated with a B unit power car.

Domes Through Donner Continued