4k: Union Pacific Railroad Rotary Snow Plow at Troy, CA on Donner Pass 

Damn that power unit sounds good!!! I could listen to that all day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seen those in Colorado, gots me under my blankets keeping warm. Cool video. 🏜️😎☝️✝️🛐❤️

When I get home, my wife asks me what did I do at work, and i'm like "today I watched a train shoot snow off the donner pass" and she just smiles and doesn't realize the calm these kind of videos bring me. lol

I love the people and machines that keep the world going???? So Many do so much!

When I was a kid in Truckee, the minute the snow began to fall, ALL the town plows and many of the Dads with trucks with plows would immediately go out and start plowing, because we had SO much snow, SO fast, every winter, that if you got behind it, you'd lose all the roads; the town would get shut in and isolated....for the whole winter. For real.

What an awesome machine.

Great footage and amazing quality. I love the little Cat that was following along side earlier on.

This is terrific footage. I love the high angles that drones can offer. I betting that the snow plow operator had more fun that day than anyone!

Great video!! I stood in front of this beast in Old Sacramento when it was parked at the rail museum. The size of the blades and diameter of the blower are impressive. This is not the highway departments puny little Snow Blast, this is Old School Industrial Rail Power, and the folks who get to run it are having some major fun, they live for these moments.

Interesting fact, the man who laid out the right of way through these mountains in the 1860s, Theodore Juda, was a visionary, and some sections are still used today unchanged from his original layout.

'Rudolph Diesel'... 1896... still doing the mandatory Big Work.. :)

Excellent drone footage . . ! Passing this link along . .

Unbelievable Amount of Snow. WOW! 👍🙏

I used to see these rotary plows parked in the Sparks, NV rail yard when I was a boy. I always loved to see the unusual appearance and giant round fan on the front. For a long time I didn't know what their purpose was. We would go to the Harrah's Automobile Collection which at the time was in Sparks adjacent to the rail yard and I would always look for these plows. They are very impressive in person.

Very cool. Thanks!

we are a great big rolling railroad. thanks for posting

Breathtaking views, thanks for sharing this.

Yup ~ it is bleeping AWESOME to see in person, lol

Back in the day, i was fortunate enough to be invited aboard a couple of private rail road cars trips and when we traveled this route after a fresh snowfall, standing on the back platform was spectacular with only two small ribbons of track revealed in the fresh snow as we passed through! Not being from snow country it was always a thrill to watch the rails disappearing behind the car. At different points along the way, snow would be falling covering the tracks in the distance like nobody had disturbed natures beauty! 🚦🚂

I bet the snowblowers have been working a lot this year. Thanks for sharing your video. Love the high angle views. Well done. 👍

Beautiful footage, especially when going to full screen mode. Reminds me of plowing for El Dorado County DOT in Tahoe and when the Rotaries would come out to widen the roads, so there would be a place to put the snow from the next storm. Reminds me of the old steam powered rotaries the SPRR used. Used to keep them in Sparks or Roseville. This plow doesn't have the directional chute our DOT rotaries had, no need on the railroad right of way so they are just "tubbing" downhill. Our old DOT rotaries had 12V-71 Detroit diesels, you could hear them working miles away. The guy in the snow cat is doing what we called "pimping" for the rotary plow, which we did with a grader, both to pack the snow ahead of the rotary plow and to cleanup spillage behind the rotaries. Great video brings back memories!

Kudos to the crews, that is truly a coordinated effort. What powers that blower, sure moves the snow. What’s next, it melts and floods. Wish you the best

Amazing video bet it would be fun to drive the snow cat

Awesome! This is the first drone video I have seen that included audio of the target and no drone noise.

Wow Ray, that is incredible footage. Thank you so much for going there and sharing the footage with us.

That was incredible. I so appreciate you filming that.

love that old tunnel at like 3:30. I am always shocked at just how much and how far that thing can throw.

Amazing, what a perspective! IF only we had today's technology in cameras, drones, etc. back when SP was still around.

Amazing drone footage!

Absolutely wonderful video -- the amount of hours they must have been employed to clear snow this winter must surely have paid some serious OT.

I sure the Donner party could have used one of those snow blowers!

So cool, terrific shots, drones are so cool. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent coverage, thanks.

We now have over 45' of snow at the Donner Pass. Our home is 700' lower and we have 42' of snow so far this year.

Impressive, good old British Rail grinds to a halt, if there’s 2-3 cams, or less! Well done.

Excellent!

Cool

This has got to be the best Donner Pass snow plowing video I have ever seen. I would like to see more arial video with a long view. Also showing how close the Interstate highway is to the tracks.

Thanks for sharing this amazing footage!

Outstanding!!!! Live here in Auburn and always wanted to watch this live. Great video.

I would have loved to been there in person to see this. You video is the next best thing, thanks!

That’s really cool 😎

That would be the coolest job ever 😎

Well done!!!!!

Great video!

awesome!!!!

Fantastic video, Ray.....

Thanks for sharing the footAGE

The road crew responsible for snow removal on the road running parallel to the railroad tracks - 🤯

Snowcat needs a snowblower!

i think you have it figured out . looks great just like all your other work

killed it dude

2:25, spectacular.

I wonder if the drone operator was part of the train crew since this video goes for so many miles which would put it's operating distance too far from one starting point to communicate with the drone?? Spectacular video

Beautiful video, I especially love the scene with the abandoned tunnel. Nice to see the 70 year old F units still providing yeoman service on one of the world's most important railroads. Do they still have 567s or do they have newer engines? I assume Jeremy Renner is not driving the snowcat.

Good Video

Very cool video 👍📸👍📸👍📸👍 Love the Snowcat pacing the train to get the residual snow further off to the side !!!!!

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This is awesome Ray. Scott Marsh

Great video. Looks like the train is only doing clean up. I can't imagine when it was the first pass and 4" all the way across the blower.

Fantastic liked and subbed

This was before the big snow days.

At 2:59 it shows an old tunnel entrance. They must have changed the route at least once.

Brilliant footage !!! And great piloting !!! You made it look easy. But from my own experience I know that it is not always so . James.

Too bad the Donner party didn't have one of those! They would have made it to California!

What drone are you using to capture sound? That is really clean!

My uncle was an engineer for for the Western Pacific RR . Any snow sheds still being used?

This certainty was some awesome footage. I am curious as to how to recorded the sound ?

Here from The Weather Channel app to smash the like button. Great footage! I am trying to capture some train footage here in CO too. Yours is superb! How did you capture the sound?

Driving over the bridge in that snow groomer looked a little sketch! How do you get that job? Awesome!

What is the tunnel to the left? An old grade I assume?

The snow cat is pushing snow in certain sections

the old 567

Raymond Lewis - SPECIAL REQUEST: Of ALL the railroad rotary snow plow videos EVER Uploaded NOT a Single one has ever SIMPLY(?) shown a close-up of the snow-covered tracks with the plower approaching THEN the UNCOVERED tracks. Please be the first to do so in your next post (another major snowstorm is coming). Thank You!

Awesome. I'd love to know the specs on the plow! 1,000HP? The video and sound are mesmerizing! How do you know they were going to be out doing this?

great footage, to bad the whistle never blew ;)

Why are there snow cats there? Are they part of the UP plow crew?

What drone do you use please?

Only see one of these in old government films growing up...

Dream jobs, train or cat operator!

Add another month of hibernation for any bears denning below.

That’s badass ! Where can I buy an locamotion snow blower . Asking for my rich friends… lol

Good video I like it a lot🚂🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃 We had are train show lot of videos p.waco