In this Life Magazine photo, maybe taken in the 1940s, a huge "cab ahead" locomotive bears down on the photographer inside a wooden snowshed. An example of the sole survivor of this type of locomotive may be viewed at the California State Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento.

A flash shot taken inside one of the sheds. A concrete wall on one side, concrete roof overhead and Sierra granite and hand hewn rock retaining walls on the other side. Imagine the work!

A section of the snowshed had collapsed and was subsequently removed.

Here we are exiting Tunnel 9. (or is it Tunnel 10?)

This is the end of the last tunnel of our ride. From here the right of way descends down to the No. 2 right of way, which penetrates Mount Judah via a two mile long bore.

Looking back as we exit the tunnel.
Photo by Tom

A few feet down the hill from the last photo, I took this photo about twenty years ago, when there was still an active track on the No. 1 right of way.

A retaining wall protects a track which is no longer there.

Here another cab ahead locomotive labors uphill past another retaining wall.

Coming down the east side, the old Number 1 right-of-way crosses over the top of the active Number 2 track just as it enters the two mile long tunnel through Mount Judah. The boys are on top of a short length of concrete snowshed which protects the entrance to the tunnel.

Same location, near the end of the snowshed. You can see where they stopped replacing wooden ties with concrete ties.

...and here comes a westbound, climbing up from Truckee. This photo was taken in 2007.