UP 9989 and ex Rio Grande 1355 sit in the Roseville yard. Note the SP Rotaries in the distance to the right.

Union Pacific 1004 shuts down Industrial Avenue while it works HB Fuller Company in North Roseville. HB Fuller "is a major American adhesives manufacturing company supplying industrial adhesi... (more)

In Jun of 1972, EMD locomotive test car ET 800 sits near the engine facility in SP's Roseville Yard. The test car was involved in work EMD did for SP in developing the tunnel motor design and othe... (more)

SP SD45 7514 at Roseville, California SP yard.

At sunset, a pair of SP SD7s switch cars near the middle of huge Roseville Yard. SP's SD7s had a marvelously successful career, having been built in 1951, and surviving to the very end of SP's exi... (more)

The former Cotton Belt loco now UP patched leads a row of idle power at the Roseville yard.

Locomotive mechanics Cash and Ross make the final preps on a power assembly before installing it in an SP SD40M-2. The installation will take close teamwork and skill to insert the big assembly in... (more)

In the morning, UP power sits outside the shops. No. 567 has spent considerable time fighting snow on Donner Pass.

After a long, productive career, five members of SP's fleet of SD7s sit quietly in the yard awaiting disposition.

At dusk, Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3090 idles in the company of other EMDs. Here she'll be fueled and sanded.

Sure, it Looks Ratty ...

... But it would look a lot better without the UP patches. The former Southern Pacific 4813, a May 1980-built GP38-2, now wears the number Union Pacific 576... (more)

A Faux SD38-2

Working the hump at Union Pacific's JR Davis Yard in Roseville, California, is "SD38-2" 2841, named for Vencil Brown. This repowered SD40-2 began life in Apr... (more)

A Grande Lash-Up

The early days of merged railroads are often interesting, as a wide variety of railroads and paint schemes show up far from their old homes. Such was the case in Ro... (more)

Southern Pacific SD40M-2 8591 (SD45) exx-CSX 8920, ex-SBD 8920, nee-SCL 2020.