Great Video -- mail0198 ! Went over the same route in June 2010 .Me and wife travelled from San Francisco to Chicago by east bound California Zephyr. Memorable journey of our lives. Beats driving by car or whizzing by planes any day. Will always remember the snowclad peaks of Sierra Nevada and the never ending Donner lake below- all emerald blue. Wish someday in future all Americans will return back to Railroad than just cars.. Tapan Mukherjee,new Delhi
This video must be taken in or before spring 2003 because it was prior to the construction of Reno's ReTrac. You can see that at the end of this video where people crossing the tracks try to beat the train.
yes the ruling grade is greater then 2% i forget for sure, but it's either 2.1 or 2.6. percent isn't degree. its rise over 100 units of run. meaning 2% is a rise of 2 feet in 100 feet. still hella steep for flanged wheel on steel rail. i mean for heavy trains. trolleys can go a lot steeper, but to move tonnage takes a lot of power. where the people were crossing near the end, the track is below the level of that street now.
donner pass is the longest tunnel for southern pacific railroad and crews of the southern pacific sometimes suffocate in smoke because there using steam locomotive but that was backthen in the 1950's. rosville yard is the yard for sp but there is one big problem on the yard one train is carrying bombs and the surface was very hot soo the wheels were hot soo the bombs exploded on roaeville yard and then they discovered another bomb then jt exploded again to watch what i see watch this vid heres the title tough times on the southern pacific
This video must be taken in or before spring 2003 because it was prior to the construction of Reno's ReTrac. You can see that at the end of this video where people crossing the tracks try to beat the train.
I think your dating calculations might be a bit skewed. I was a conductor making trips through Reno to Sparks and the trench wasn't even started on and that was during the summer of 2004. I eventually became a locomotive engineer making trips to Sparks. If my memory serves me well, they broke ground around March of 2005 on the trench, and completed it very quickly considering the size of the operation.
According to constructoragc.construction.com/coverStories/archives/2005-05.asp, the project was 42 months long. That's what I did my calculations from.
I'm sure the project took a very long time to plan out and engineer. My calculations are from what I saw from the front end of the cab with my own eyes as I pulled trains through that city. It's really a rather remedial subject, I just felt the need to clarify those dates couldn't be entirely accurate. I know for sure I was working into Sparks late into December of 2004 during the snow on Donner and when we'd pull through Reno there were no changes from what you see here. But by that time in 2005 we were pulling them through the trench.
