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More great stuff!  Thanks for sharing.
Roy

I drove across that stretch a year ago, but after dark.  Now I know what I missed. Thanks for the very excellent photos.

Rich

If you ever read the story of the Donner party makes you wonder how they made it. ...and others after them.

BobP Wrote:
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> If you ever read the story of the Donner party
> makes you wonder how they made it. ...and others
> after them.

well, they didn't, really.....

Fantastic aerial images ... thanks for the post ... and a quote from the PBS Series American Experience ... relating to the Donner Party tragedy.  from one of the survivors ... " Remember, never take no cutoffs and hurry along as fast as you can."

Odyssey
Evergreen, CO
 

Fantastic photos.  In 1994, I rode my bicycle from SF to Portland, ME, and went across this stretch.  I was determined to leave early--3 am--to beat the heat and blinding white salt glare.  For 3 days, I was holed up in Wendover, waiting for a calm morning (i.e. no headwind).  Finally, that day came.  115 miles of biking hell.  No water availability until 75 miles across.  I slept for 2 days after arriving in SLC.

Spiritually, seeing the trains go by made it better, as they gave me hope.  Things like that happen on a bike trip.

Coach

Coach... Very cool. I rode SF to Philly around 1987, but we went across NV to Delta, UT on US 50. Never worked so hard as I did fighting a headwind into Ely, NV... Downhill!

Great pics of the Zephyr.

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rwullich Wrote:
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> More great stuff!  Thanks for sharing.
> Roy
Roy also speaks for me.

Is that I 80 paralleling the railroad?

rfprr

Yes, old US40 alongside the railroad tracks

WOW! Thanks for sharing...

coach Wrote:
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> Fantastic photos.  In 1994, I rode my bicycle
> from SF to Portland, ME, and went across this
> stretch.  I was determined to leave early--3
> am--to beat the heat and blinding white salt
> glare.  For 3 days, I was holed up in Wendover,
> waiting for a calm morning (i.e. no headwind).
>  Finally, that day came.  115 miles of biking
> hell.  No water availability until 75 miles
> across.  I slept for 2 days after arriving in
> SLC.
>
> Spiritually, seeing the trains go by made it
> better, as they gave me hope.  Things like that
> happen on a bike trip.
>
> Coach

wow!  That's got to be quite a story to ride across country!   That's an incredible feat?  What is the background info?

Right about there is where, in 1973, my VW bus (holding ALL my worldly posessions)) broke down.  In February!!  Not a fun place to have to replace a pushrod, but I did. 

Ed

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> BobP Wrote:
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> > If you ever read the story of the Donner party
> > makes you wonder how they made it. ...and
> others
> > after them.
>
> well, they didn't, really.....

I don't think the Donner Party's route took them over the Salt Flats, but rather along a route somewhat north of there, where the environment wasn't quite so hostile.

The Interstate Highway 80 visible in the photos just north of the railroad line makes short work of the trip across the salt flats now with an authorized speed limit of 80 mph.