Winter Rails over Donner, Day of the Spreader
SKU: DVD-DR-WRSPOriginal price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.
The Union Pacific’s Donner Summit line crosses the Sierra Nevada range at over seven thousand feet. Keeping this “All Season Pass” open is vital to the railroad and California’s economy.
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| Producer | Donner Rails |
|---|---|
| Run Time | 60 Minutes |
| Narration | Yes |
| Shrink Wrap | Yes, Brand New |
| Technical Details | NTSC, Region Free, View Worldwide on Computer |
The Union Pacific’s Donner Summit line crosses the Sierra Nevada range at over seven thousand feet. Keeping this “All Season Pass” open is vital to the railroad and California’s economy. When the snow gets too high for the Flangers to remove snow from the rails, the second line of defense is called into action. The Spreader is deployed to remove large amounts of snow from the mainline and shove it off banks and bridges clearing the path for new snow to fall. With the nose blade down, the wings extended out and a little speed, the Spreader will move a mountain of snow. Harsh winters, temperatures in the low teens, snow falling forty eight inches in a single day and up to sixty five feet a year, have long been an obstacle to keeping trains rolling over the Sierra. Learn some of the amazing history of Norden, Southern Pacific’s former snow removal headquarters. See how employees lived under the snow all Winter long using covered connecting hallways to get from place to place.
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rickyfreni –
With a variety of diesels from Union Pacific & Southern Pacific with Chicago & Northwestern, on freight trains, plus Amtrak’s California Zephyr & of course, some Snow Busting Equipment on this former SP Mainline between Reno & Roseville, there are not only radio communications, some helicopter angles from the sky, still images (one of them has an HO layout) & vintage films which were also used in the SP Film Archives series & the Cab Forward Collection, & preparing the spreader itself, but also interviews with Dennis Simpson, Bill Lewis, Jim Mahon, Alan Shelly, Edward Alexander, Jim Tibbitts, Bill Headen, Frank Segrest, Mark Peet, & Bob Hooley, George Gallegos, Pascual Martinez, John Valdez, Dave Bowler, Steve La Vigne, Bill Toland, & Mike Graham as well as dealing with a derailment during the winter of 2003-2006, not to mention a 1999 flashback with 3985 & an unactive 844 returning to Cheyenne Wyoming after visitng the California State Railroad Museum’s Railfair ’99 in Sacramento which more coverage can be seen in “Steam Over Donner”.
Locations according to the map in this one include Emigrant Gap, Cisco, Tunnel 41, shed 47, Colfax, Soda Springs, the snowsheds at Norden, Waldorf, Truckee, Blue Canyon, The American River Canyon with the North Fork at Alta, & even the Feather River Canyon which is 60 miles away from the Donner Pass Line.
Kevin Willie –
Great Video