Passenger Trains > Up & Over Donner, some snaps

Photo 1. Cape Horn and the American River.
Photo 2. Buried under this fill is the Secret Town Trestle, as seen in the famous photo from the 1870's.
Photo 3. Giant's Gap. I live about 3mi back from this location, so I tend to post photos from here quite a bit.

Photo 4. Coming out of (what's left of) the sheds at Norden.
Photo 5. Shed 47 and Donner Lake below.
Photo 6. Nevada.

to be continued...
SR

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Very good. I have been over the pass several times on 5&6. However, I could not get the view you had. Priceless!

Excellent photos. Just curious. Since you are a former Amtrak employee, to you not get yelled at when opening the window?

By a guy who keeps rubber ducks?!
SR

BoilingMan Wrote:
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> By a guy who keeps rubber ducks?!
> SR


Don't feed the Anderson troll...

So much of mountain railroading is following river courses deep in canyons.
Not the Southern Pacific over the Sierras! You literally, are on top of the world!
Good work Steve, from somebody who has taken many a dutch door/Superliner door window shot!
It used to be "almost" an accepted practice, or at least, often the crews looked the other way.
Sometime during the 1980's that all changed. Probably a good thing, with people not using common sense anymore.
Can you imagine getting away with dutch dooring into Washington Union station today?

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Nice post, SR, and then this great pic at the end by you, Mr Woods-- aboard an "SR" train , none other than the "Southern 🌙 Crecent"-- very envious of you for having done that! It's one that "got away" from me years ago...

andersonb109 Wrote:
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> . . . do you not get yelled at when opening the window?

Probably not any more than the publicity photographers working for Amtrak and other organizations do. A quick GOOGLE search under "Amtrak publicity photos" yielded this result.

"Do as we say, not as we do."

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Tb1lS6cj4wpNglVjueLSwyvukrQ=/0x10:2048x1375/1200x800/filters:focal(0x10:2048x1375)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/39997054/8753560470_1039e6c203_k.0.0.jpg

By a guy who keeps rubber ducks?! SR

That sounds interesting. Do tell us more!



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/28/17 11:09 by CA_Sou_MA_Agent.

I commuted from Davis, CA to Truckee, CA and back on Amtrak every week in 1974-75 for work.

We always had the top half of the Dutch door open except when the weather was too bad.

Train staff never said a word.