RailPictures.Net Photo: UP 957 Union Pacific EMD E8(A) at Yuba Gap, California by Steve Schmollinger

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» Union Pacific (more..)
» EMD E8(A) (more..)

» Donner Pass
» Yuba Gap, California, USA (more..)
» July, 1973

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» UP 957 (more..)
» AMTK 5 (more..)

» Steve Schmollinger (more..)
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Amtrak No. 5 comes around the granite ledge at Yuba Gap on the original Donner alignment. The new alignment, which tunnels through the granite here, is in the foreground. For now at least, the track the train is on is now gone, having been removed in the early 1990s.

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