4K: Blizzard on The DONNER PASS ( December 2022)

Enjoy Some footage from a cold and snowy day at the summit of the Donner pass.

[@chuckmaurice3646]

I want to say Thanks for sharing.

[@cjbeyer8340]

Wonderful coverage of this trying area! Thanks for sharing, I am a huge UP fan!

[@coolbreeze253]

My son used to live within an easy walking distance of that Soda Springs crossing...well, not easy during a blizzard.

[@lockheedL1049]

Great catches in this video, especially the power move at the end.

[@hectorgranados9655]

That was awesome 👍

[@RRphotographer661]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@seabulls69]

Catching that Hyrail getting on the tracks was pretty special. Overall, an excellent video. Thank you for braving the storm for us.

[@RRphotographer661]

My pleasure

[@williammunford476]

Wow great videos I hope you are close to a warm place with good food and a fire place

[@JohnnysTrainVideos]

I hate the snow but Love this video. Thanks for making and sharing...

[@cliftonmarvel8067]

Hey- that was a GREAT train experience,! Keep up the good work 😘

[@debshipard1664]

Wow. Stunning video. What a catch with all those engines running light

[@railyardfilms6491]

Awesome on top mountain

[@Lakeside1943]

It's warm and comfy in my easy chair. My respect for this great video in those icy circumstances !

[@campgus]

I used to live at Serene Lakes, just up Soda Springs Road. I'm so enjoying not shoveling the driveway, but getting to see all the great snow. i enjoyed my years up on the mountain, but really enjoy my seventies in Penngrove, Sonoma County.

[@toodie6980]

Used to live in Truckee and moved north driving about an hour, thought we'd escaped the deep snow. Not this year! Just like living in Truckee again. Hope you are enjoying no snow removal in such a beautiful area. Now in our 80's and plowing our long driveway!!!

[@jeffhodge7272]

Lots of snow up there so far this year too.👍 Brrrrr.💨🥶

[@trainsmachineryldegmtrains3509]

Amazing winter video! Good work! Thumbs Up All the besr from Dublin Andrew

[@RRphotographer661]

Thank you very much!

[@nigelterry9299]

Beautiful. Cold but beautiful.

[@deanjoseph4792]

Wow, who knew so many artists live by railroad tracks😳

[@frankmarkovcijr5459]

2 unit dpu 5 4500 horsepower locomotive all together. Over twenty thousand horsepower now that's impressive.

[@frankmarkovcijr5459]

Don't you just love the way a big massive train makes its presence known. Especially when the ground Rumbles.

[@ggreg2258]

Great vid. Beautiful, and unforgiving!

[@Nicola636128]

Amazing video! Great courage to have made these shots under that snow storm.

[@frankmarkovcijr5459]

Do you remember back in the 1950s the Train the city of San Francisco got stuck in the snow and Donner Pass for 6 days. It was a three-month Journey from the Railhead at the Missouri River to take like the Oregon Trail out west. In five months people would walk 3000 miles. If you reek independent Rock and signed your name because if you got there by Independence Day you would beat the snow. Just a little history there

[@johnleach7879]

That's exactly why I moved to Florida.

[@Doggeslife]

Latest I get up there is September. Not a snow person. I only saw a brief dusting once but it was a melted away by noon.

[@frankmarkovcijr5459]

Was cute shave-and-a-haircut two-bits human aspect of railroading they are shortly going to take away when they automate the trains completely. Maybe they'll have half a Droid in the cab just waving at people.

[@frankmarkovcijr5459]

If you had to use modern steam locomotives on train this size you would need three crews for 3 locomotive. It would take six men can move that same train instead of one engineer and three diesels. Diesel locomotive the greatest job killer the railroads ever knew.

[@seanp.2108]

Has the rotary been in use this year?

[@RRphotographer661]

Video coming soon

[@MikeNelson1953]

Great video, but it's ZephYr, not "Zepher".

[@sparkyart5702]

what does the Flanger do ? is it different than a slow plow ? great video capture by the way

[@zebrashark23]

It removes snow from the inside of the rails where the flanges go, hence the name.

[@speedracer3104]

Blizzard?? This is nothing! Look up March/April of 82, Jan of 52, Feb of 38 just for starters. Those old timers would send the kids out on this little teaser!

[@CiaGuy]

get over yourself please

[@adriancarter2863]

How come all the trains were running “Wrong Line”? Was the video posted back-to-front?

[@jasonalperin9414]

What happened to the Soda Springs Cam????

[@skydancerforever]

Is there something that tells the engineers when a crossing is coming up so they can blow the horn or do they just look for them? seems like it would be hard to see them in this kind of weather?

[@7171-Ws6]

Trains in snow is fun until you try and stop

[@jamesstuart3346]

15:30 Zephyr

[@skydancerforever]

What is a Flanger 585? what does it do?

[@RRphotographer661]

It cleans the snow from the rails

[@royfcjr]

2 inches of snow is a insult to my intelligence.

[@RRphotographer661]

Don’t worry…. There’s more to come