Tracking West
Nonstop Work
It’s so early in the season that in lower elevations the fall colors are still peak. Despite that, the winter has started in the Sierra Nevada mountains and snow fighters are out in full force. During an afternoon storm, a flanger set with UP 580 on point makes its way out of Truckee for the third time this day to make its rounds to Blue Canyon where they would turn back east to Truckee. These locomotives and crew have had little time to rest between trips with a crew change, waiting on Amtrak, and a refuel being the only things giving a rest between runs. A massive storm had come through in the previous days prior to this and even at the end of the storm the snow still was falling hard. Just earlier that morning, the ground was covered in snow until the sun melted it all, but after this last snowfall the ground would be white again.
Nonstop Work
It’s so early in the season that in lower elevations the fall colors are still peak. Despite that, the winter has started in the Sierra Nevada mountains and snow fighters are out in full force. During an afternoon storm, a flanger set with UP 580 on point makes its way out of Truckee for the third time this day to make its rounds to Blue Canyon where they would turn back east to Truckee. These locomotives and crew have had little time to rest between trips with a crew change, waiting on Amtrak, and a refuel being the only things giving a rest between runs. A massive storm had come through in the previous days prior to this and even at the end of the storm the snow still was falling hard. Just earlier that morning, the ground was covered in snow until the sun melted it all, but after this last snowfall the ground would be white again.