{"id":4433,"date":"2013-11-08T05:19:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T10:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2013-11-08T07:14:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T12:14:33","slug":"daily-post-southern-pacific-yuba-pass-california-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-southern-pacific-yuba-pass-california-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST: Southern Pacific Yuba Pass, California 1992"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Westward Freight Descends Donner Pass.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A westward Southern Pacific freight led by SD45 7422 negotiates the curves on the west slope of California’s Donner Pass at the railroad location known on the timetable as Yuba Pass (and on Interstate-80 as ‘Yuba Gap’). This was exposed on a Kodachrome 25 slide film at 4:25 pm October 4, 1992.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On October 4, 1992, Brian Jennison and I gave a Donner Pass tour to a pair of Union Pacific officials visiting from Omaha.<\/p>\n

We started the morning early and drove to Andover on fire roads to witness a westward freight climbing through the curves in Cold Stream Canyon west of Truckee. Later we went up to Troy on the west slope and made an inspection of the Cascade Bridges.<\/p>\n

Southern Pacific was busy that day. My notes indicate that we photographed nine trains, including Amtrak 5 and 6 (California Zephyr<\/i>s).<\/p>\n

At 3:40pm we caught this westward freight near Donner Summit at the snow sheds in Norden, California, then followed it west to Yuba Pass.<\/p>\n

I climbed to the top of a hill over looking the line and exposed a sequence of Kodachrome slides with my Nikon F3T fitted with a f4.0 200mm lens mounted on a Bogan 3021 tripod. This slide was exposed at f4.5 1\/250th<\/sup> of\u00a0 a second. (I bracketed up and down 1\/3 stops to insure I made an optimally exposed slide).<\/p>\n

Check out earlier Southern Pacific posts:\u00a0Donner Pass Part 1<\/a>,\u00a0Southern Pacific SD45 at Old Gorge on Donner Pass, July 1990<\/a>,\u00a0Southern Pacific\u2019s Roseville Yard, February 1990<\/a>, and\u00a0Southern Pacific SD45s on Kodachrome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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