Late snow on Donner Pass. by John Whiteley
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SD45T-2 No. 9391 leads an eastbound Southern Pacific general freight alongside the Truckee River. 9 April 1997.
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Internet in 2023:
Me in 2023: Can’t believe we had a modern day news story that was so closely aligned with a great tragedy of the past. Good thing that will never happen again.
Internet in 2024:
Me in 2024: …I’ll just keep my mouth shut from now on.
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UP's SPMW flanger train; the more things change the more they're stayin' the same.
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Troop train in the Sierras
A Southern Pacific 4-8-8-2 leads a long string of troop sleepers on snowy Donner Pass in the mid-1940s. Pullman-Standard built 2,400 of the boxcar-like sleepers between October 1943 and May 1946.
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"The Indifferent Stars Above: the Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party" by Daniel James Brown book recommendation by Rachel Sylvan
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SP357 AC4400CW
Emigrant Gap Donner Pass, January 1997
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. . . recent snowfall in the California Sierra Nevada mountains
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Watch "Rotary Snow Plow SPMW 207 on Donner Pass, Feb 9, 2023" on YouTube
:-)
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