I love the steam sound effects… Granted, the rotary looked to be steam powered, but I’ve never heard an F unit chug like that…
Well it is a choo choo right? [}:)]
Interesting. You know, up to that time the “City of San Francisco” was the only Southern Pacific train that was ever snowbound in the 20th Century.
Over the years I have seen a lot of clips about that incident - but I have never seen that one. Good Find!
For the whole story check out Donner pass by John Signor. there is a chapter on the events of that incident that is facinating [Y]
My grandfather was on the last train before Donner pass shut itself down. I remember him saying the crew was very concerned if they would stall then.