Western Railroad Discussion > Thunderhead clouds over Mt Shasta this evening

UP7846 South entering Dunsmuir Yard this evening. The train was going to drop off one locomotive at Dunsmuir. I am speculating it may be power to be used in fire service if things get worse. By the look of those clouds over the mountain they are in for more lighting up north tonight.

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Looks like she's gonna blow!

Ryan Wilkerson
Fair Oaks, CA

Yep, water car special, they're trying to figure out the speed restrictions on the old SP water car. Hiway 97 is closed so not sure who's getting photos of this one.

Interesting that similar clouds formed over the fire areas at Burney this afternoon. Earlier today another one was over the fire near hiway 3. Possibly caused by winds and hot air rising from the fires.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/02/14 22:24 by TCnR.

Our weatherman from Channel 7 here in Redding calls them
Pyro cumulus clouds caused from moisture release from vegetation
during a fire. Beautiful and awesome in one way given the power of
nature but...ugly when you see what the fires are doing. Just hoping the
smoke does not come over Redding tonight as we are virtually surrounded
by large fires. Can only feel for those losing homes, livestock, cars,
and the thousand other things people spend their lives and their fortunes
acquiring. I had not heard that Hwy 97 was closed but SR 89 is for sure
between Burney and Old Station. Lord, where's the rain ? It will be
interesting to see what a fire train can do against this onslaught.

WOW!!!

Kent in CArmel Valley

Are they actually going out tonight? I think the unit they have down on the house track is UP 4744 but that's going from memory.

TCnR Wrote:
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> Yep, water car special, they're trying to figure
> out the speed restrictions on the old SP water
> car.

Ryan Wilkerson
Fair Oaks, CA

UP 4744 is showing as north of Black Butte a few minutes ago and is scheduled back at Dunsmuir around 5am. Would they drop the water cars up somewhere?

Ryan Wilkerson
Fair Oaks, CA

Awesome Picture! Mt Shasta and thunderhead make the train look small.


Larry

In the past the engine stays with the car, maybe they have something different planned. There's not much water in that area, the car would need to be filled at BB or maybe Grass Lake. Not sure if they have a whatchama-callit there.

Beautiful....

Awesome!!

Ronda Thomas

TCnR Wrote:
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> Yep, water car special, they're trying to figure
> out the speed restrictions on the old SP water
> car. Hiway 97 is closed so not sure who's getting
> photos of this one.
>
> Interesting that similar clouds formed over the
> fire areas at Burney this afternoon. Earlier today
> another one was over the fire near hiway 3.
> Possibly caused by winds and hot air rising from
> the fires.

Up north around Kfalls we are getting ash fallout and very little if any clear sky during the day. Visibility about ten miles or somewhat less at times.

Thats a cool shot.

Very cool shot! Look at that last UP engine, can you say grime:}

Very nice shot.

~Ryan

Beautiful shot there Bob!

NIIIIIIICE...!!!