For those that hadn't heard, we out west have been getting this thing called Precipitation. Rather a lot of it in fact. Feather River Canyon saw a slide I believe in the camp fire area. Donner of course doesn't get rain. It gets Sierra Cement. AKA thick wet snow. lots and lots and lots of snow. 3 story buildings worth of it. The Roseville Service Unit knows what it's doing, but this much snow is always a problem. The Jordan Spreader train went on the ground at Soda Springs.\ Luckily just a few weeks back, UP got Plow 222 back from a complete frame up rebuild. 222 had been the spare that didn't get an F7B power unit. UP brought an F9B it had stored in Cheyenne out to Sac to be mated to it. UP was gonna take it up for some testing...the test became the real deal. 222 faced east, 207, the unit rebuilt a few years back was west. 222 made it I heard 10 minutes before she had some bearing problems on the shaft and she was kaput. A broken flanger was on the balloon track (truckee???) so attempts to quickly turn the set were foiled. Eventually, I guess this morning, they got it turned. 222 was brought home to Roseville and 207 continued to work alone. I have pictures of none of that. I80 was closed until today and I have work and kids, so snow shoeing out in avalanche country ain't gonna happen. What I do have is SPMW 211. (209 is hiding behind her) ROseville fired them both up, got them moving and prepped. They aren't used much anyway, but 207 had been getting most of the work over the past few winters. As far as I can tell, they never made it up the hill as 207 had it in hand, but they stood ready.
Yea, You folks are catching H**l out there. Hopefully things will get better for you/us soon. Here in CO we have had a good deal of precipitation this year, up on the mountain we are 120% of normal, which is great for us, and may recharge some reservoirs, which is much needed. But wow I am sorry for all the bad things that have happened with the fires and now flooding out that way. Hang in there. Thanks for the image of this rotary plow & company.
All of the snow fighting gear is lettered SPMW. Even the rebuilt units. Alas the snowfighting GP38-2s are all in UP paint.
Taken today at Ridgecrest, NC, NS 135 exits 1,832 FT Swannanoa Tunnel en route to Asheville. The train was running a bit late and I lost my best light, but was happy to get something.
Nobody there. I went back to the high resolution image and zoomed in. Just a bunch of control boxes and dwarf yard signal lights.
