On a sunny Sunday morning, Union Pacific 7424 leads the daily Z train around the many curves near Switch 9. This train has made good time from Sparks to Emigrant Gap. Now it will be smooth sailing... (more)

This train was stranded at Emmigrant Gap for some time as seen by the snow piling up on the unit. The rear end of this westbound train is seen through the Snowdrifts at the west tunnel portal at S... (more)

For some unknown reason, DS74 has lined a 13,417 ton grain train onto the #2 track, to run wrong main down the pass.. UP 6472 is one of 8 GE AC4400CW's, and pokes it's yellow nose out of the tunne... (more)

Bloody, mate! Somewhere along the trip from Chicago, Train 5 had a run in with an animal (deer, bear, mountain lion, dolphin, bigfoot, who knows?).. Engineer and fellow RP contributor Mark ... (more)

The Reno Snow Train is approaching Emigrant Gap. The gap itself allowed the Central Pacific to cross over from the watershed of the American River to that of the Yuba River allowing a practical wa... (more)