where am I in this photo?

"where am I in this photo?"

You're right there in the middle of the photo, standing next to a big post. 

Taking the photo?

At the entrance or exit of a Snow Tunnel.  Where I could not say. 

Holding the red lantern in the tunnel?

I don't know.  For that matter, where's Waldo?

George

Norden summit?

Pine trees. Snow shed. Otherwise bare ground.

Still dunno.

Oh, and I sharpened and did some other work on the photo:

wb47... You don't know?!

Crouching behind it?

In a semi-serious vein - trying to figure out what railroads used the triangular signal heads...and ran through territory such as that - maybe in the Southeast somewhere? It looks like some sort of snow shed...or mine entrance...but if that, double track seems odd.....

David

Colorado?

Taking the photograph?

You tell us    DWOT

Standing next to BIGFOOT!!!!!

Maybe a snow shed on Donner Pass?

The NJ entrance to Amtrak's deteriorating Hudson River Tunnel?

@Henryjint posted:

The NJ entrance to Amtrak's deteriorating Hudson River Tunnel?

Maybe it's just me but, somehow that doesn't look ANYTHING like New Jersey!

How about the Pacific Northwest. Maybe Northern Pacific territory, not that familiar with the area.

"Somewhere in Connecticut, a little above Hartford, a little below Zero."

OK,,,,,,,,,it has been 24 hours now. Maybe the original poster and end the mystery????

How do keep a moron in suspense?  

I’ll tell you tomorrow. Lol. Let it ride longer. You have some folks guessing.

WGAS

I remember seeing a very similar snowshed near Donner Pass while skiing at Sugar Bowl many years ago .  I think we were on a chairlift when I took a picture of it with my old 35mm camera.  Finding the picture would be difficult now.  If that is the place, it would be UP tracks

Can I ask a question about the photo.......why are both of the signal stands facing away from the on-coming tracks????  How can an engineer see what colour they are displaying???

Peter.....Buco Australia

@Buco posted:

Can I ask a question about the photo.......why are both of the signal stands facing away from the on-coming tracks????  How can an engineer see what colour they are displaying???

Peter.....Buco Australia

To my knowledge, that's done when the signals aren't in service so the the crew knows that they aren't supposed to be seeing anything, because otherwise a dark signal has to be treated as a stop. You'll see it a lot of times when new signals are being installed and when everything is ready, the signal department will come through, switch over to the new signals and rotate the heads into position.

I figured Hot Water may have a pretty good idea.  Ron hit the nail on the head.  The snowshed is/was at the top of the big hole on track number 2, the 2 mile tunnel through Donner.  You would see it from the chair lift.  The track on the left merges into the track on the right just at the exit of the tunnel mouth.  The mouth has or had a roll up door which we were told kept air in the tunnel. The shed was a couple of hundred yards long. We waited in the shed for a train, and after giving up but before getting out of the shed, a familiar breeze started hitting us from the tunnel.  You cant see a headlight way down the tunnel, but the breeze is a dead giveaway that a train is coming.  Was a short work train.   I believe though that the nice wooden structure was removed a few years ago.  The place is accessed through the sugar loaf ski area turn off.  I am in the picture along with my 13 year old daughter.  Deb and I flew into Reno, rented a car and drove to the Bay area to attend the Neb/Cal football game.  We stayed at a 20ish motel on the north side of Donner Lake, attempted to swim, was still really cold.  Great spot to hear and see the trains crawling up track Number 1 across the lake to tunnel #6, now abandoned, yeah after all that blood, sweat and tears that it took to bore it back when the CP was first built. For you hikers, the Pacific Crest Trail passes pretty close.  We managed to look up my old tamper operator, then retired, who still lived in one of those quaint skinny houses up the hill from downtown Truckee.  Medde Dias, made a quick taco with his special green hot sauce.  Anyway, thanks  for the interest and response!

wb47,

What is the date of the photo? I'm pretty sure that there hasn't been any wood snow sheds on Donner Pass, for many, MANY years.

Boy, I am really in the slow group!

I thought you meant could we find you hidden somewhere in the photo, but, I now see that you were wanting us to identify where the photo was taken.  

The back story sounded good, including the quick taco with green chile sauce.

@Number 90 posted:

Boy, I am really in the slow group!

You're not alone, pal!  I thought this was some form of "Where's Waldo?"

We have all the moderators we need.  What we could use is a title editor/grammarian/spell czecher/English language disciplinarian.  Remember what she looked like about 65 years ago?....

Oh well.....anything to break up the monotony.

This pic is from 1998. Neb won 24 to 3. We had end zone seats. At that time some of the wooden seats were rotting.