Western Railroad Discussion > UP9921 sb Redding Turn at Red Bluff, CA

Here is a Union Pacific SD59M-2 leading an unusually short Redding Turn a little north of Red Bluff on its return trip to Roseville, California on January 28, 2015 at 9:20.

Jan Austin
Chico, CA
J.G. Austin Photography

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Nice picture. I like the northern valley, and it has some very nice railroad scenery and operations. How does the stuff on the Redding Turn get to the outside world? Is there a manifest that runs from Redding to Roseville?

Tor in Eugene

Nice shot.

~Ryan

The Redding turn takes cars that the two Redding locals have gathered and takes them to Roseville where they are then dispatched onto other trains. This happens Monday, Wednesday and Friday. On the return trips north to Redding on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday they bring back cars from Roseville to turn over to the locals.
There was a period in the 90's when the turn was abolished and road freights had to pick up and set out cars in Redding, Anderson, and Red Bank. It seemed this lasted until the merger and then the turn was re established...

During that period they ran a Klamath Falls Turn which did much of the work you
describe, four axle power, sometimes pretty interesting.

Out

Also, the crew is based out of Redding, so the "return" trip would be north!

Great shot Jan. Those signals won't be there much longer.

Adam

SP4436 Wrote:
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> Technically it is crewed out of the Dunsmuir
> terminal but all the guys that live down here in
> Redding usually bid on the Locals and the turn as
> the on duty point is downtown Redding.

That statement contradicts itself. The Redding Turn and two locals all have their home terminal in Redding. The extra boards in Dunsmuir are used when needed to fill any vacancies on these Redding based jobs, but that is not the home terminal for the regular crews of these jobs.

ok i'll be the nerd in the room. When did the SD59X get redesinated SD59M-2's?

5 units on that short train.

coach Wrote:
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> 5 units on that short train.


Returning the Redding local power to Roseville for service. Normally runs with 3.

Frontrunner Wrote:
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> ok i'll be the nerd in the room. When did the
> SD59X get redesinated SD59M-2's?

SD59M-2 is the EMD model designation for these rebuilds. SD59MX is the UP designation.


Chris Toth
NSDash9.com