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Roseville Yard - June 19, 2010

On June 19, 2010, about 20 members of PSRHS were treated to a tour of Union Pacific’s JR Davis yard in Roseville. Lonnie Dickson, manager-operating practices for UP and member of PSRHS, served as tour guide.

Our visit started at the heart of Roseville operations, the yard office, where we were given an overview of the yard, and viewed the training simulator and the command center that controls train movements. We then drove past the “One Spot” car repair facility to the hump or classification yard. Here we watched UP employees remotely controlling movement of an incoming train as its cars were identified, separated at the hump(photo 1), and aligned onto one of 55 classification tracks, where they are made up into new trains. Talk about your ultimate “model” railroad. Next, we drove to the north end of the yard where we got a detailed look at two recently renovated spreaders(photo 2), a major project that has been documented in a video produced by PSRHS member Brendan Compton. Finally, we got an up-close view of flangers(photos 3&4) that were modified or repaired by railyard crews, and the fleet of rotaries(photo 5) stored at Roseville. Our thanks to Lonnie Dickson and Union Pacific for an excellent and informative field trip. Thanks also to Jim Wood for making it happen.

Photo 1

Releasing cars over the Hump.

Photo2

Jorden Spreaders

Photo 3

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Flangers

Photo 5

Rotaries