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Western Railroad Discussion > SP 6051 goes to RosevilleDate: 04/16/09 08:57 SP 6051 goes to Roseville Author: conductor The California State Railroad Museum's (Sacramento CA) SP 6051 -
"Southern Pacific No. 6051 GM-EMD 1954 E-9A Gift 6/1978 of R&LHS, Pacific Coast Chapter; restored by CSRM to 1954 appearance. Operable. Sole preserved SP E-9." (from CSRM Web Site" - was moved from the Museum's Shop area (MP 88.5 UP's Martinez Subdivision) to the UP Roseville Yard (Roseville CA MP 106)on Wednesday, April 15th. The E-9 will be on public display Saturday, April 18th and on display Sunday April 19th for the UP's Family day. From the UP's Web site - Saturday, April 18 Layover and Public Display - Noon - 3:00 p.m. Roseville, Cal. – UP Yard 500 W. Atlantic St. 1. UP and CSRM discussing the time and track request to be able to move the SP 6051 from the CSRM Shop Lead to the UP interchange lead. 2. SP 6051 waiting on the CSRM shop track 3. . . . . just another shop track view, with an "interesting" sign Date: 04/16/09 08:59 Re: SP 6051 goes to Roseville Author: conductor 4. SP 6051 now on the UP lead, ready to back out to the UP Main Line
5. In front of the Roseville CA Amtrak Depot, waiting for a green to turn on the wye 6. After turning on the Way, again at the Roseville CA Depot Date: 04/16/09 09:01 Re: SP 6051 goes to Roseville Author: conductor Date: 04/16/09 09:03 Re: SP 6051 goes to Roseville Author: cdub I probably would have had a lot more respect for SP's image if they would have stuck with the Daylight and Black Widow schemes instead of switching to that dull grey and red.
Date: 04/16/09 09:13 Re: SP 6051 goes to Roseville Author: SPCoastline nice pictures.
Date: 04/16/09 09:14 Re: SP 6051 goes to Roseville Author: TomPlatten The Grey and Red was a good scheme if they had kept their locomotives fairly clean!!!!
Date: 04/16/09 09:22 Re: SP 6051 goes to Roseville Author: graybeard1942 Great job, Rusty!
Date: 04/16/09 09:58 Re: SP 6051 goes to Roseville Author: MarinCommuter CSRM is also bring out its Union Pacific bus -- a rare public viewing -- for the UP Roseville open house on Saturday.
Hope the following archived link works. It's got photos and a bit of history about the bus. http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,233214,233253#msg-233253 Date: 04/16/09 10:01 Re: SP 6051 goes to Roseville Author: AlbinaRunThrough Thanks for the post and pics Rusty!!
Date: 04/16/09 11:02 Re: SP 6051 goes to Roseville Author: RRTrainingServices They couldn't bring 913 out for the Centennial year of the WP though huh?
Date: 04/16/09 17:24 SP 6051 goes to Roseville - who drives? Author: john1082 When the 6051 goes out like this, who drives? A UP engineer? An engineer from CSRM and a UP pilot? And how big a crew? Engineer & conductor? Engineer, conductor, RFE, photographer?
John Gezelius Tustin, CA Date: 04/16/09 21:18 Re: SP 6051 goes to Roseville - who drives? Author: UPNW2-1083 Now THAT'S what I call a "heritage" unit, beautiful!-BMT
Date: 04/16/09 21:50 Re: SP 6051 goes to Roseville - who drives? Author: kg6nlw John,
From a reliable source it's a full UP Crew from the minute it leaves the CSRM building. Regards, -Frank C. (and Di) Frank Christ Cloverdale, CA FranksRails Photography, LLC. Date: 04/17/09 22:32 Re: SP 6051 goes to Roseville Author: smokebox They probably know Rod wouldn't give it back ;)
RRTrainingServices Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They couldn't bring 913 out for the Centennial > year of the WP though huh? Date: 04/17/09 22:41 Re: SP 6051 goes to Roseville Author: RRTrainingServices smokebox1 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > They probably know Rod wouldn't give it back ;) > > RRTrainingServices Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > They couldn't bring 913 out for the Centennial > > year of the WP though huh? How true, how true... Date: 04/17/09 23:15 Re: SP 6051 goes to Roseville Author: Pullman Well, you can't blame a guy for trying to collect a complete set...
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