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Western Railroad Discussion > Through The Sierra Not Around ThemDate: 01/20/21 13:40 Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: BoilingMan Date: 01/20/21 13:42 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: icancmp193 And good use of the proper "Sierra", not "Sierras".
TJY Date: 01/20/21 14:05 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: BOBDRGW Nice picture and such an apt phrase that fits Donner as well as Colorado. In 2001 I left Amtrak for an opportunity at Metrolink in SoCal. Before I left I resolved to take one more head end trip up the coast on 14 and over the Sierra on 6. The trip on 6 had a DRGW GP35 on the point due to a failed Amtrak unit. There is nothing like being on the head end to appreciate the efforts that went into building the railroad over the Sierra not around them. A sentimental trip I will never forget.
Date: 01/20/21 14:46 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: donner_dude1 That shot needs snow this time of the year. :-}
Date: 01/20/21 14:55 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: bobk Nice shot!
Date: 01/20/21 14:56 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: PHall donner_dude1 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > That shot needs snow this time of the year. :-} Talk to Madame La Nina about that. Date: 01/20/21 16:09 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: AndyBrown BoilingMan Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > That title works, right? > SR Ha ha! Cute! Andy Date: 01/20/21 16:36 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: TCnR Nice and appropriate.
There was going to be a question about the lot being for sale on the left edge, but then I saw the two houses in the background. t4p. Date: 01/20/21 16:43 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: BoilingMan Yeah, oddly enough a (somewhat) gated neighborhood has take root on top of that ridge. Sure didn’t see THAT coming!
SR Date: 01/20/21 16:51 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: TCnR There goes the neighborhood.
Hopefully not the access though. I did see some major leagure gates in that area a few years ago. ------------------------------------------------------- > Yeah, oddly enough a (somewhat) gated neighborhood > has take root on top of that ridge. Sure didn’t > see THAT coming! > SR Date: 01/20/21 17:46 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: IC_2024 Excellent work, drone man, SR! And, agreed, the singular “Sierra” is what I expect to read from a MT man like you who lives there 👍👍
Date: 01/20/21 17:51 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: cchan006 BoilingMan Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > That title works, right? > SR > > UP 1989 on WB Z at Gorge today. Yes it works. Thank you for the fabulous drone angle at Gorge for a high value target! Date: 01/20/21 20:14 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: pbouzide donner_dude1 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > That shot needs snow this time of the year. :-} You're telling me! And great catch, it'll come and go from Lathrop in darkness (which is the closest I could see it). Date: 01/20/21 20:27 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: johnsweetser The phrase of the thread title has been in use for awhile in various forms. A two-page photo in Donald Duke's 1962 book "Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives" is titled "Through the Tehachapis .... Not Around Them."
(or the last word in the two-page photo title may be " ' Em," not "Them." Unfortunately, I couldn't find my copy of the book) Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 01/20/21 20:51 by johnsweetser. Date: 01/20/21 21:04 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: weather Feather Canyon east of Belden will get lotw of snow Sunay night thru Thursday a.m. and so will the Overland Route.
Date: 01/20/21 21:21 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: mojaveflyer Date: 01/20/21 21:40 Re: Through The Sierra Not Around Them Author: stash One of the things I learned as an apprentice typographer, back when they taught such things.
IC_2024 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Excellent work, drone man, SR! And, agreed, the > singular “Sierra” is what I expect to read > from a MT man like you who lives there 👍👍 |