On our 1200 miles/3 days barnstorming of California, we caught the above scene in Truckee, California. And the onboard Amtrak staff was more that eager to help them load their gear on the California Zephyr!
If that doesn’t float your boat…a little over 24 hours and 437 miles later we caught the loaded UP Trona Soda Ash train heading south through the Mojave Desert to the Port of Long Beach (via West Colton)
You know what I find funny about this picture, I find it funny that most of the People look like there looking directly at the Conductor that has the Blue Shirt on aboarding the nice looking women onto the Train. But, I bet all the Conductors were Admiring the Women.
This is an awesome picture with great sunlight. Also if you notice the SD70ACe upfront had the number of 8441. If the #1 on 8441 would have been the #4 it would of became 8444. That would of been one of the UP Heritage Units. Altogether, awesome picture.
Well, thanks for the comments! Looking back on our trip, there certainly was a variety of scenery for 2 days of railfanning ! (well, Jan 1 everything was shut down)
Sorry guys, but only in California is a bit lame. I’m now retired and living in Trieste, Italy and have to say that the boots are HIGH fashion here as well as all over Italy. Females from about 8 or so up to 70 or 80 wear boots and those that like boots would have a field day here. My wife went into a store to pay for some clothes she brought home the previous month while I waited on the sidewalk. In the 22 minutes I waited, I counted 55 pairs of boots walk by me. That number may be low or high, depending. Some women walked by twice so I may have over counted, but lots of them wore long pants that came down to the ankles. When I couldn’t say for sure whether they were boots or not, I did not count them, resulting in a possible undercount. However, what you don’t see in WINTER is shorts – but in summer – wow. As for inappropriate – not in Italy. Sorry.
Here in snow country it always tickles me when women confuse the two. Those boots may be high fashion, but for slogging around in snowdrifts and slushy parking lots, they are the wrong choice.
I guess I should have specified I meant the short shorts in the snow! Perhaps I should have asked them where they were headed, since the train was pointed east toward Nevada and then on to Chicago.
In fact, I am reading that today’s version of train 5 and 6 are stuck in Nebraska due to freezing/snow conditions? I would hate to be stuck in shorts for a worse case scenario like that!
Granted that stilt-heeled boots (including some with 3 inch platforms) are fashion statements. They are still utterly impractical on ice-crusted snow - which isn’t at all uncommon in the Sierra Nevada. How common is snow with sub-freezing temperatures in Trieste? Here in Sin City it’s a once in a decade, maybe, event. If we want to see snow we look at Mount Charleston, 35 kilometers away and three kilometers higher up.
If the train is eastbound, maybe the ladies are headed back to their place(s) of employment in Nevada…
