TRAIN CLIMBS THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN - Donner Lake / Donner Pass 2024
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Here's another video from our trip up to Donner Pass!! This time we were up by milepost 200, just past the summit.
We start out flying over Donner Lake, as the MRVNP glides down the hill after climbing nearly 7,000 feet of elevation over 95 miles! They had locomotive issues earlier and had a lengthy delay on their journey east.
This is near the site of the original Donner Party as well!
The next morning an eastbound manifest rumbles up the hill at Magra. It looked like the MRVGR. It sounded great echoing through the mountains in the morning, this was a cool one!
Thanks for watching, and more videos are coming from the trip!
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What a fantastic train video, very 😎👍ty
@bradleyjanes2949 thanks Bradley!
It is so freaking beautiful out there. Your camera work is always on point. Can we go back! Haha
Haha yea it is! Thanks big dog Jay
Excellent, thank you for another great video. I was an Engineer/Conductor here back in the days of SP. The Horseshoe Curve shown at 6:50 is also known as "Stanford Curve" and Stanford Flats just EB of this. I once asked my friend Jim "The Bear" Mahon what was his favorite part of "The Hill", and this was it. Keep 'em coming!
@ulrichskaarsgard7848 Wow, that's really cool! Thank you😎
What was it like working for SP? It must've been pretty cool.
@@RRTrainVideos Yes it was a great company to work for. When I was there we still used the old #1 main "which is now abandoned" and mainly used SD40T-2/SD45T-2 "tunnel motors" as power with manned helpers usually between Roseville and Sparks. I worked snow service in the winter, pretty much the same equipment UP uses there now (flanger, spreader and rotary).
@ulrichskaarsgard7848 that's pretty cool! I'll bet you have some great stories over the years. Thanks for the comment! 👍
Great video. Thanks from an "Original Transcon UP/CPRR" enthusiast. A photo from A.J. Russell, fall of 1869 when he took a trip to Sacramento after completion of the RR, was shot from atop the Summit Tunnel, faced east, with Donner Lake 2000 Ft. below. We can walk there where he took his Imperial camera shot. The cover over the original vertical work can be seen from the top, also. Russell's photos can be viewed on OMCA site, once one navigates past their introduction, 😇. The CPRR Museum site has many photos by Alfred Hart of this area, when under construction. PS: Russell's photo is incorrectly identified as "A.J. Russell 1868"...off by a year. Thanks from Darrell. PSS: Subscribed.
Thank you very much! 😎
And Thank you for the info! I just looked up Alfred Hart's Donner photos, pretty amazing! A Lot of history up there.
Your drone shots are amazing. I also didn’t know about the relationship between the Sierra Nevada and the Platte River.
@corycampbell9811 Thank you very much, Cory! 😎 I don't know about the platte river connection?
Great videos...
@@FalconXE302 thank you😎👍
Wow what a great video.. Beautiful scenery and train shots from the sky.. I like how you put the dispatch and train sounds in there. Definitely the best train videos out there.
I'm giving this a 10 out of 10 and 👍👍.. Another great job Robert..
Question: How far away was the drone from where you were standing.? ..
See ya ....
@droyroy1711 thanks d Roy😎 the drone was almost 2 miles away in the beginning of the first video
Amazingly beautiful views from the elevation it looks like a toy. Thank you for all the fun facts also. Do you know why the original Transcontinental line was abandoned? Bigfoot was in the tunnel hahaha. Thanks Rob for the wonderful video.
@CalebA-sv2kw Thanks, Caleb! 😎
Yea, big foot was hiding out still, haha!
It was my first time up there, but as I understood it, they abandoned the old right of way for a more direct route thru the mountain via a tunnel that's something like 2 miles long that crews call the "big hole"
Its so crazy to see how physically long the trains are besides just numbers on paperwork. We only get small glances of the rear or middle in some spots but your videos really show the size
@@zsoren42 haha right! It's a pretty cool perspective from the drone😎 thanks for watching
How cool would this train sound with some loud Jake breaks like a semi 👀 *trucker ideas* 😂😂😂
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