Winter Rails over Donner, Night of the Flanger
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This is the story of nature’s bitter legacy of snow on the mountain each winter season and the Union Pacific’s annual effort to keep a green light burning on the mainline.
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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 |
This is the story of nature’s bitter legacy of snow on the mountain each winter season and the Union Pacific’s annual effort to keep a green light burning on the mainline. Learn about the history of weather, snow sheds, and snow clearing equipment used on the mountain. Learn about the strategies of deployment and how the Flanger and other snow clearing equipment work together to clear snow and keep the rails open. Find out how equipment is “turned” on the Balloon Track and “flipped” back to Truckee. Hear the real inside story from the “Bear”, legendary boss of Espee’s snow service crews who worked Donner Pass. Hear colorful stories from Richard Steinheimer, famed railroad photographer. Learn about Donner’s fascinating railroad history from Ken Yeo, local railroad historian; and hear from Mike Pechner, UP’s weather forecast consultant for Donner, and much more.
br>Witness white-out conditions through the diesel cab’s rotating windows, forcing our flanger crew to pause their night operations to dig out switches in the light of their diesel ditch lights. Experience the spectacular camera views of the flanging operation as snow is shot careening over banks and bridges with breathtaking scenery in its path. Hear the engineer & conductor explain details of the flanger operation. Experience what it’s really like to ride inside the flanger “box”.
rickyfreni –
In the first volume of the Donner Rails’ Snow Service Series, even more multiple Blizzards has fallen in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the Former Southern Pacific route that had since been taken over by Union Pacific in 1996, as there are not only Freights on UP, SP, & BNSF with fallen flags like Chicago & Northwestern for instance, as well as Amtrak’s California Zephyr, but also lots of onboard footage, as well as a bird’s eye view of the mountains from the sky.
Commentaries, & Interviews from the crews behind the snow busting machines, & even the people who know the detail of the mainline between Reno Nevada & Sacramento California like Photographer Richard Steinheimer for example, plus music are also included as well as some vintage films & still images from the early steam years with one picture that has future famous survivor 10-Wheeler 2248 now at the Grapevine Vintage Railroad in Texas, to the January 1952 Blizzard where the Streamlined City of San Francisco was trapped for almost a whole week.
Initially enough, footage of the rescue efforts were shown in the Pentrex video: SP Film Archives part 2, with some other scenes later used in the SP Cab Forward Collection.
Kevin Willie –
Great Video