A welder affixes a metal stripe along the base of 2491's plow in one of the work bays of the Roseville Shops.

The red "cherry" warning light of SP GP40 7624 glows perhaps its last hours before being removed.

On hand for the festivities surrounding the UP 1996 unveiling. UP 27 was built by GMC in 1949 and used to meet UP trains in the Los Angeles area. It was loaned to the California Rail Museum in 1... (more)

It was exactly one year ago to this day that the Southern Pacific heritage unit was unveiled at Roseville, CA. The CSRM's SP 6051 (E9) is seen pulling the unit out of the shops area so the company... (more)

Brand New UP1996 at the unveiling party with it's distant original relative E9 6051 in the backround

The famed Centennial site idle in the Roseville Yard.

Snow is about as far from most folks minds today and the rotary plows are parked from the summer

This ratty looking SD40-2 sits on the end of the storage line...

Here are four units at the busy shops. An old GE pulls by a pair of wide cabs. So that accounts for three of the four locomotives in this photo. Where's the fourth? Look next to 4805, the carbody ... (more)

At the shops with a pile of blue flags

A yard pair eases out of the shops past some parked power

The "Centennial" at Roseville Yard where a dashboard camera was installed before it's upcoming trip to the The Western Pacific Railroad Museum for the summer.

Something wrong with this photo. Lots of blue boards signifying "Safety First" yet this ex-D&RGW 3104 engine obviously has been involved in a recent collision with all the damage to the right side... (more)

Four flangers sit at Roseville Yard. Two appear to be brand new and leading the pack is SPMW 324 "Snow Fighters".

Anyone who has ever lived or, like me, worked in any part of California's Central Valley will know the term "Valley Grunge". A cold, wet, high, fog from which you can never warm up. Under a specta... (more)