Our tradition is to go for a mountain bike ride on the original Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way over Donner Summit on the day after the Reno Air Races. The Number 1 track, built as part of the original transcontinental railroad in the 1860's, was removed in the summit area over ten years ago. All railroad traffic now uses the Number 2 track, which was built in the late 1920's. The Number 2 track is shorter, straighter, doesn't have to climb as high and is more protected from snow as it passes through a two mile long tunnel bored through the granite of Mount Judah. Concrete snowsheds visible from I-80 still stand over the original right-of-way which was wrapped around and over Mount Judah. Most of these photos were taken in September 2002.