Tracking West
Redemption
INPOA was due into Portola around sunset with UP 1982 on point, and 1989 trailing somewhere on the train. Due to this, a buddy and I went up to get the train on the Winnemucca Sub, however, just outside Winnemucca the train snapped, and if I recall right a whole drawbar got pulled out of one of the cars. Regardless of what happened, the situation caused the train to sit for several hours, so it looked like we were out of luck. By this point we were coming into Reno, and by pure luck we found out that the MSPRV had just left Sparks not long ago.
This caused us to race to a shot, though we had unknowingly just missed the train when we got there. Thankfully, the detector at Verdi went off only a couple minutes later, giving us enough time to get ahead of it before Floriston. After shooting it in Floriston, we made our way to Truckee to get this shot of the train in nice evening light. Although we thought about getting one last shot, by this point dinner sounded better.
Redemption
INPOA was due into Portola around sunset with UP 1982 on point, and 1989 trailing somewhere on the train. Due to this, a buddy and I went up to get the train on the Winnemucca Sub, however, just outside Winnemucca the train snapped, and if I recall right a whole drawbar got pulled out of one of the cars. Regardless of what happened, the situation caused the train to sit for several hours, so it looked like we were out of luck. By this point we were coming into Reno, and by pure luck we found out that the MSPRV had just left Sparks not long ago.
This caused us to race to a shot, though we had unknowingly just missed the train when we got there. Thankfully, the detector at Verdi went off only a couple minutes later, giving us enough time to get ahead of it before Floriston. After shooting it in Floriston, we made our way to Truckee to get this shot of the train in nice evening light. Although we thought about getting one last shot, by this point dinner sounded better.