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Subject: [Leica] SNOW!?!? SnowboundCPRR Streamliner
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas M.Sharp)
Date: Wed Jan 26 07:38:38 2005
References: <BE1CE17D.1E2A2%telyt@earthlink.net> <009c01c503b0$b3ae28f0$42ec4142@D1S9FY41> <41F7A914.6080205@gmx.de> <00db01c503b5$ed7f3d30$42ec4142@D1S9FY41> <41F7B399.8030000@gmx.de>

Seems to have been quite a bit of the white stuff in 1952.

http://www.trains.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/001/871rhslm.asp

Douglas



Douglas M.Sharp wrote:
> Thanks Seth,
> It's google time again!
> Douglas
> 
> Seth Rosner wrote:
> 
>> Doug (of trains persuasion):
>>
>> There is a photo of the locked down train in Lucius Beebe's book, The 
>> Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads. Doubtless elsewhere as 
>> well.
>>
>> Seth
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas M.Sharp" 
>> <douglas.sharp@gmx.de>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:28 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] You Call that SNOW!?!?
>>
>>
>>> Seth,
>>> Now that is something I'd like to see some pictures of !
>>> Douglas
>>> (trains Doug - not birds Doug)
>>>
>>> Seth Rosner wrote:
>>>
>>>> the Streamliner City Of San Francisco being hauled by Southern 
>>>> Pacific's Alco locomotives over Donner Pass, only to be blocked by a 
>>>> monster avalanche and then locked in there for three days by the 
>>>> great grandma of all Sierra blizzards. Seth
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Herr" <telyt@earthlink.net>
>>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 8:56 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] You Call that SNOW!?!?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> 6-8" more white sh-t fell on Saratoga Springs last night and it is 
>>>>>> still
>>>>>> dropping;
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Just remember that in the Sierra Nevada snowfall is measured in 
>>>>> feet. The
>>>>> inches are insignificant once you have 10' on the ground.
>>>>>
>>>>> Doug Herr
>>>>> Birdman of Sacramento
>>>>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
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