#Donner Pass

[odinsblog]

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Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 Highballs up Donner Pass!

Donner Pass Norden and Soda Springs -- feels sacrilegious that a UP monster is treading the ties the cab-forwards were built for, but I can forgive them since they're flying the California Republic flag and because 4014 was finally converted from coal to and oil burner, give it a few years and they'll 🏳️‍⚧️trainsition it into a cab forward too...

[themonsterthing]

Donner Train Tunnels w/ Spenser <3

[20th-century-railroading]

Late snow on Donner Pass. by John Whiteley Via Flickr: SD45T-2 No. 9391 leads an eastbound Southern Pacific general freight alongside the Truckee River. 9 April 1997.

[bs-fangirl]

Internet in 2023:

Me in 2023: Can’t believe we had a modern day news story that was so closely aligned with a great tragedy of the past. Good thing that will never happen again.

Internet in 2024:

Me in 2024: …I’ll just keep my mouth shut from now on.

[pyromanicfeline]

[lipstickstainsacidrain]

[unluckyhotel101]

I was most excited for this book. A paranormal retelling of one of my favorite historic events; the Donner Party. A tale of human survival and the desperation of heading West in unsure times. With a story as dread inducing as this, I fully welcomed the paranormal. I thought it would be haunting and, as advertised, deeply disturbing. I read through it feverishly, waiting and waiting and waiting for things to kick off.

It fell short of every expectation I had. Perhaps I was too excited and too eager, letting my mind build up the terror that the book would not. The story wastes its time with fabrications and assumptions that take away from the story. It wasn’t until the last few chapters that it even began to snow, which, if you know the Donner Party, is one of the key moments of the tale.

This book was disappointing. Plain. Well written words, but a disappointing story. It had the potential to be an amazing book with psychological and body horror. It’s a tale about cannibalism and yet, when it finally happened, it was rushed and without detail. I was left wanting more of anything from this book.

It fell short of every raving review that sparked hope in me. Utterly disappointing.

[rabbitcruiser]

The first group of rescuers reached the Donner Party on February 19, 1847.

[healerinchief]

🩵 Donner Lake 🩵

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UP's SPMW flanger train; the more things change the more they're stayin' the same.

[aryburn-trains]

Troop train in the Sierras

A Southern Pacific 4-8-8-2 leads a long string of troop sleepers on snowy Donner Pass in the mid-1940s. Pullman-Standard built 2,400 of the boxcar-like sleepers between October 1943 and May 1946.