What is this!!! Amtrak is stopped for an auto train! Well luckily for me that is how things worked out. Notice the glare of the yellow winged nose on the side of the Amtrak lead unit?
Taking a tight curve under a signal bridge headed west to its final destination of Lathrop.
Taking a tight curve under a signal bridge headed east towards Sparks
A quick break in the clouds lights up the lead unit
Winding through the curves headed towards the west end of Shed 10
My first flagged unit while home on leave from my 1st year in Korea
The flanger passes #5 at Truckee to clear the rails atop the "snowy" summit
Waiting for authority to leave the MOW yard to clear the rails at higher elevations. That aint rain!!
Westbound z at Cisco....notice the train in the shadows-the manifest is waiting for the z as well as one eastbound before continuing westward
Numberboards provide the subject as the moon gleams in the background
Westbound amtrak working past just another weapon the MOW uses for snow removal on Donner.
A pose by the Colfax helpers while cutting out near the summit
Just another flanger shot.....but with beautiful fres snow blanketing everything, and a break from the heavy snowfall
Eastbound out of the "big hole" over Donner summit
