UP 3448 East UP Detour over SP Donner Pass

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Randy Curlin	General	UP suffered tremendous rock slides and washouts from the 1986 Valentines Day storm. As a result UP detoured over Donner. SP restricted traffic to 4K tons, 6 or more working units (no SP helpers) and a working caboose as SP did not have talking defect detectors (yet-1988 SP went cabooseless). UP still had trains stall going over Donner and had trouble finding working cabooses.	6/10/2023 4:12:46 AM

Randy Curlin	General	UP borrowed CNW cabooses until SP banned them for safety issues- no working radios, faulty marker lights and no toilets.	6/10/2023 4:15:20 AM

David Krebs	General	Read your comments. Wow!	9/9/2023 6:39:42 PM

UP 3448 East UP Detour over SP Donner Pass
John E Shaw photo
Date: 2/26/1986	Location: Dutch Flat, CA	Views: 104	Collection Of: Randy Curlin
Locomotives: UP 3448(SD40-2) UP 2455(C30-7)			Author: John E Shaw

Picture Categories: Action		This picture is part of album: Randy Curlin Collection 7

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