12.07.2014 UP:n lumiaurajunan veturit odottamassa syksyä ja ensimmäisiä lumisateita. Donner Pass on lumentuloltaan hurja, keskivertotalvena lunta sataa yli 10 metriä!. Lumiaurajunat koostuivat kahdesta aurasta, joiden välissä oli kaksi UP:n dieseliä. Kuvan aurajunan vetovoimasta vastasivat EMD:n GP38-2:t #590 ja #605
09.06.2016 02:01 | Miro Salo: | Youtubesta löytyy aiheeseen liittyen hieno video, "Night of the Flanger" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx5jmtnekCQ | |
26.01.2018 03:06 | Esa J. Rintamäki: | Donnerin sola? Sillä on muistaakseni synkkä maine erään retkikunnan jouduttua turvautumaan ihmissyöntiin henkensä pitimiksi. | |
26.01.2018 09:36 | Hannu Peltola: | Oiva huomio, Esa! Donner Passin historia ei ole ollut ainakaan minulle tuttu ja tämän Esan viestin osalta tuli vähän katsottua lisätietoa. Wiki kertoo solan historiasta mm. seuraavaa: "In early November 1846 the Donner Party found the route blocked by snow and was forced to spend the winter on the east side of the mountains. Of the 81 settlers, only 45 survived to reach California;[4] some of them resorting to cannibalism to survive.[5][6] On January 13, 1952, 222 passengers and crew aboard a train became stranded about 17 miles (27 km) west of Donner Pass at Yuba Pass, on Track #1 adjacent to Tunnel 35 (on Track #2), at about MP 176.5. Southern Pacific Railroad's passenger train City of San Francisco was en route westbound through the gap when a blizzard dumped so much snow the train was unable to move forward or reverse. The passengers and crew were stranded for three days until the nearby highway could be plowed sufficiently for a caravan of automobiles to carry them the few miles to Nyack Lodge." |