Tracking West
Bad Moon Rising
The moon is seen rising over the mountains as UP 1989 brings a problematic MSPRV over Donner Pass. The slow moving westbound was 99 cars this day which is much longer than its usual length of up to only about thirty to forty cars. However, just a handful of miles later this train would go into emergency at Blue Canyon as the train lost air. Due to this, the conductor had to walk the entire train. Meanwhile, me and some friends sat at Casa Loma only seven miles away listening to this situation over the radio. A manager ended up getting called out to their train meaning they would be halted for awhile. Due to this, we decided to head to Blue Canyon to try and get some final light photos of it. As we walked to the head end one of us caught the problem that somehow managed to go unseen, the air hose had snapped on the first car. After getting the engineer's attention we let him know about the problem so it could get fixed and it was obvious the hose had snapped due to it riding very low. The train would end up sitting at Blue Canyon until after dark before finally getting on the move again. By this point, we had already made it down the mountain to get some dinner before calling it a day.
Bad Moon Rising
The moon is seen rising over the mountains as UP 1989 brings a problematic MSPRV over Donner Pass. The slow moving westbound was 99 cars this day which is much longer than its usual length of up to only about thirty to forty cars. However, just a handful of miles later this train would go into emergency at Blue Canyon as the train lost air. Due to this, the conductor had to walk the entire train. Meanwhile, me and some friends sat at Casa Loma only seven miles away listening to this situation over the radio. A manager ended up getting called out to their train meaning they would be halted for awhile. Due to this, we decided to head to Blue Canyon to try and get some final light photos of it. As we walked to the head end one of us caught the problem that somehow managed to go unseen, the air hose had snapped on the first car. After getting the engineer's attention we let him know about the problem so it could get fixed and it was obvious the hose had snapped due to it riding very low. The train would end up sitting at Blue Canyon until after dark before finally getting on the move again. By this point, we had already made it down the mountain to get some dinner before calling it a day.