UP 5377 West passes a stopped Z Train in Truckee on a frigid January afternoon just after a snow shower passed through town.

Union Pacific double stack train Westbound between Floriston and Truckee, CA.

Union Pacific 602 hustles an eastbound flanger into Truckee, California, just as the sun begins to set across the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Dispatcher 74 took a chance having the flangers follow th... (more)

"Hey! Over here! Don't miss me!" yells a friendly crew member, eliciting a smile from the photographers watching the eastbound California Zephyr pull out of Truckee.

After patiently waiting for the eastbound California Zephyr to clear, UP 7703 is underway westbound, heading for the summit with track inspection vehicle EC-4 in tow.

Oil empties off the SJVR in Bakersfield hustle east out of the Sierra Nevada. Unfortunately, this erratic (at best) oil service seems to have completely gone away.

UP 5293 throttles up out of Truckee with an AGBMI on the drawbar.

Amtrak 139 navigates the westbound of the California Zephyr through the reverse s-curve at Glenshire as it hits the first snow of the season.

Amtrak westbound "California Zephyr" train number five climbing the east side of Donner Pass following the Truckee River not far east of Truckee.

The Amtrak California Zephyr snakes along the banks of the Truckee River on a frigid winter morning. A winter day on Donner Pass is the only obstacle standing between this train and it's final sta... (more)

An early morning in the Sierra finds BNSF's eastbound Stockton, CA to Provo, UT trackage rights train dropping down the eastern slope of UP's Roseville Subdivision and into Truckee. Although its r... (more)

With its crossing of the Sierra Nevada nearly complete Amtrak 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, slips down grade into Truckee, where it will make its final California stop before crossing into N... (more)

The Westbound California Zephyr departs Truckee, CA.