After trying to catch up on Friday night's missing sleep, I'm slowly getting around to sorting through the couple hundred or so photos taken Sat morning. Here is the 1996 and 6051 on approach comi... (more)

UP president Jim Young, standing at the top center, along with several other Union Pacific executives pose on the final UP Heritage locomotive, UP 1996.

UP worker rides the side of UP1996 as it crawls down the mainline in route to the mainline switch

UP 1996, UP's last locomotive of the Heritage Fleet is seen pulling out of the diesel shops and into the nice morning sunlight for the first time with the SP 6051 trailing behind. The "detarper" d... (more)

Here it is guys... UP 1996, the final UP Heritage Unit, in the new "Daylight" scheme sits in the City Yard section in Roseville JR Davis yard. Just one and a half locomotives length behind is SP E... (more)

My very good friend was the UP crew member who was called to duty at 5AM this morning to be the stitchman on the heritage unvailing event.

Inside the cab of an old school EMD with the next generation visible in the distance.

Cal State RR museum's SP E9 shares the day at Roseville with the UP SP Heritage engine.

UP's new Southern Pacific Heritage Unit. I think they could have used at least one orange stripe under the red one.

Reporting live from Roseville... And here she is! SP Heritage Unit in Quasi-Daylight all the way! A little hint of Black Widow but sleek classy - kinda like a modern GS-4. More to come later!

An already dirty UP GEVO 5516 and several other engines run light through the Roseville yard.

UP GEVO 5537 and train gets the roll-by at Sunset Whitney Siding.

A GEVO leads a freigh train out of Roseville.