Western Railroad Discussion > Blizzard warning in the Sierra

The Weather Channel has posted blizzard warnings for Norden and Truckee today with winter storm conditions through Thursday.  Heavy snow is forecast at Blue Canyon with 5 to 8 inches of snow forecast.



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Some of the forecasts are pretty wild with multiple FEET over Donner expected in the next day or two. Here at the 3600' level of Greenville (BNSF Gateway Sub) we are having big rain today, supposedly to be followed by 5-8" of snow tomorrow. I have not seen a Gateway train since a southbound on Sunday afternoon and a hy-railer yesterday. Not sure of the status of the FRC, perhaps someone else can chime in.

Tom Y

FRC out of service.

Rain at Alta now also where snow was predicted for today, yesterday!

Regards, Jim Evans

How bad does it have to get for the rotaries to get called out?

Bring on the rotaries !  Well, this storm may not be big enuf just yet.

Junst north of ROSEVILLE on the SP--UP Valled Sub there is high water probs at  MP VP 116 and VP 134 areas.
This heard on the ROCKLIN SACramento Radio feed from Broadcasify from 11:47 am to 12)( PM tues 1-10-17.
 ---- Daniel



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The I-80 cams today look pretty ominus.    It's really piling up at the higher elevations.   Rather see this than rain up there.
 

Control Point RV171-RV192 OUT OF SERVICE ON DONNER.
THis from DS 74 Radio oas of approx 1:31PM pst tuesday 1-10-17..
This means BOTH the FRC and DONNER are OUT of Service --CLOSED.
Looks like ALL traffic must go Tehachapi Loop or be HELD for track reapir.
 ---- Daniel



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daniel3197 Wrote:
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> Control Point RV171-RV192 OUT OF SERVICE ON
> DONNER.
> THis from DS 74 Radio oas of approx 1:31PM pst
> tuesday 1-10-17..
> This means BOTH the FRC and DONNER are OUT of
> Service --CLOSED.
> Looks like ALL traffic must go Tehachapi Loop or
> be HELD for track reapir.
>  ---- Daniel

Tracks on Donner are just out of service for the spreaders to do their work. As of 2pm, there's a westbound grainer in Truckee which I think will be following a flanger set up the Hill.

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jmf1910 Wrote:
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> there's a westbound grainer in Truckee 

Huh?  Is it being operated by a conductor or a driver?  



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#5 was annulled at Reno this morning, turned, and departed Reno as #6 this afternoon.

Don't know how passengers from points west of Reno go to/from their destinations -- I-80 is shut down by the heavy snows, and many airline flights in northern California has also been cancelled today.   And even if there were flights operating between Reno and Sacramento or San Francisco, it would have been a wild ride.

Fyi, the major SFO Airport has been running in REVERSE runway direction Flow  for most of the
past 4 (four) days  --Southbound flow instead of the normal northbound fflow.  
I think 4 out of the past 5 days is some sort of record for the airport.
Frida--SAT--SUN and TUES 10th have all been mostly Reverse ops at SFO .
Only Monday 09th was normal dierection ops at SFO
SFO is currently is REVERS ops as I post this at 5:10PM pst tuesday 1-10-17.
Early sunday moring BOTH SFO and LAX were in reverse direction at the SAME time.
LAX usually runs WEST direction flow for the runways.
This is a huge moster storm as far as the giant blockages in our transport system.
---- Daniel 
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chakk Wrote:
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> #5 was annulled at Reno this morning, turned, and
> departed Reno as #6 this afternoon.
>
> Don't know how passengers from points west of Reno
> go to/from their destinations -- I-80 is shut down
> by the heavy snows, and many airline flights in
> northern California has also been cancelled today.
>   And even if there were flights operating
> between Reno and Sacramento or San Francisco, it
> would have been a wild ride.



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