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.
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!!!
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
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.
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!
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.
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?
