Haven't been able to take winter photos the last few years due to rock hard snow. This year is lots of powder that hasn't hardened yet. Hope you enjoy the photos:
Matt from Anaheim, CA and Bayfield, COClick Here for my model train photo website
I SURE DO HOPE THEM WORKERS HAVE STRONG BACKS!!!!!! THEY GOT A LOT OF SHOVELING AHEAD OF THEM. ENJOYED THE PISTURES.
JOHN
Matt, nice photos. Up here we call your previous snows Sierra Cement. This year has also been soft powder, but now its turned to ice.
Rob
John, yep they sure do need strong backs. I think they're keeping warm with all the shoveling since they're wearing short sleeves
Rob, Sierra Cement is a good term. One year I tried melting down to the tracks with a blow dryer. That was a pretty fruitless experiment.
Sean, I think if Charlie was working on our line he would have given up a long time ago...Good Grief
I looked and looked to see if I had a comparison shot without the snow taken at a similar angle. The photo below is about the best I could find. The red circle represents approximately where #315 is situated in the snow photos, the yellow dot is on the same tree in both photos, and the blue line is roughly the snow line. Yep that's right the snow is up and over the rock wall and then up over the tracks at a considerable depth. And this is not the highest I've ever seen the snow level.
Sweat pictures. Must of have been a lot of work clearing track. My layout has .5 inches of snow with over a 1/4 inch of ice on top from todays ice storm. The KMRR has taken a beaten in its first year and is holding up very well
Southwest Chief
That's a lot of shoveling for just two guys!
Tom Trigg
Trigg thanks for the indorsment for a new industry on my railroad, Sierra Cement Co.
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