A couple of freshly rebuilt SD40-2s swing across the yard toward the East Valley Line with a train headed for the Pacific Northwest.
As the sun sets over Antelope, new SD70M No. 9803 leads a freight from the Pacific Northwest on another leg of its journey to West Colton.
UP 4796 glides through West Atkinson on the point of the hot shot ZBRLC. After getting its new crew the "Brooklyn" will again be on its way south.
Well look what I found at UP's yard in Roseville, this SP bay window caboose without any UP patches! You got to love this gem, thanks UP for keeping this one around.
UP 8576 & 9403 lead a westbound loaded rail train past Roseville Yard.
Early morning at the East end of UP's diesel service facility at Roseville yields this view of GE's and the Rotary's.
It looks like an eastbound and that would make it early morning. I didn't usually get up this early. It's really hard to tell but I like the light.
"The Sierras are getting pounded! All eastbound traffic is stopped." -Dispatcher 57 and 74. That's what we were listening to all day over the radio. A large storm was dumping feet of snow up ... (more)
"Torpedo boat" 3005 idles on the ready track at the center of the yard as an SD7 performs switching duties.
UP 1996 pulls into Roseville, CA with the SCBFR 17, passing a string of old SP MoW tank cars as it pulls into the yard.
Union Pacific 1989 leads the ZCSLT into Roseville after a long journey over Donner Pass.
After it's crew change UP 5560 starts up it's westbound stack train at Atkinson.
As a yard train went by I noticed it had this old Southern Pacific caboose on it, if only I was alive when a caboose was common.
A behind the scenes tour of the Roseville Yard takes us to some snow equipment. It just sits on a spur during the summer but it has an important job come winter; keep Donner open!
Union Pacific 1996 is seen in Roseville while normal operations continue on this Thursday afternoon.
