The Rocklin Rocket throttles up as it leaves Roseville Yard heading up the Valley(East) line to switch industries ending up at the lumber mill in Lincoln. She'll come back, reverse onto the Donner line and head to Rocklin and switch those industries. Which include a a Particle board facility and Lumber yard. Today the train is easily handled by 2 SD59MX units. A few years back this was GP60/GP40-2 work.
Does this indicate that traffic levels from shippers have grown? Or just a change due to retirement of older units? Or?
The name on this car used to always bother me. The Golden Spike was driven to complete the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 at Promontory SUMMIT. I then realized that it must be celebrating the completion of the Lucin Cutoff in 1904 that actually went to Promontory Point out in the middle of the Great Salt Lake.
Those look like the old original UP colors. Always liked this better than the grey, and would probably stand up better today on the locos, since they turn THIS color after 100's of miles anyway!!
*Sigh* Some day I'll get my new slide scanner set up. Until such time, this is the best quality I can offer, of the Chehalis Western. Some forty years ago, near Maytown, Washington: .
This is a historic photograph of great personal importance taken today. Why? Today was the first day I've railfanned in five months. With COVID-19 keeping me home and the loss of a parent (unrelated to COVID-19), there haven't been opportunities to get trackside. [Train F772 at Columbia, SC]
Oh, man my favorite local shortline, this side of the S&NCRR!! I built about 20 of those ex-Milw log bunkcars for my Z-scale, just need some custom CWRR GP38's!
Nothing new this week, so to the wayback machine we go. I think this was 2003, Rocky, CO. This was my first trip to the Moffat, and the bug bit big time!
Conrad Yelvington Distributors - An aggregate distribution company in South Alabama and all of Florida It looks like they have several locomotives assigned to their plants around Florida.
I'm not sure of all their reasons. From a pure horsepower perspective it is not much different. I think what happened was that as units cycled through for upgrades. The 40s and GP60s got assigned to industries and other states. SD70s and GEs got pushed to the turns as PSR reduced unit needs and so the 59MXs got pushed to locals, because they're newer, cleaner. The 59MXs are only based on Roseville and Colton. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk
Nice pic ! And lucky you for having been able to spot a pure D&RGW lashup in those years ! Spent some time along this line (at this exact location indeed) in years 98 and 99, and it was all SP power.. Dom