900322 Though made in 1990, this photo through one of the many tunnels on Union Pacific's (ex-Southern Pacific) Donner Pass over the high Sierras of California, could almost as easily have been made in 1890, except for the fact that color film wasn't available then. Donner Pass, a legendary railroad site since the construction of the first transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, has recorded measurable snow every month of the year, with depths measured in dozens of feet many winters.

Special safety note: We had permission to be on this property and the photo was made during a known "window" between trains. Railroad tunnels are inherently dangerous for trespassers. Do not trespass on railroad property.

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