Solid cast iron and cast UPRR 1882. Weighs close to 300 pounds! I have tried to figure out how many of these have survived and I come up with 7. The neat thing about them is they are cast with different dates and markings over the years. The ones I have seen or know about are: UPRR 1869 - Sacramento Railroad Museum UPRR 1871 - Private Collection

Why is the UPRR Sacramento Subdivision listed in the timetable as a West/East railroad when it actually is North/South? The Fresno Sub, Coast Sub were West/East in the SP days (Geographic North/South) but it kind of surprises me that UP never has changed the direction of the Sacramento Sub to North/South.

Re: UPRR East LA Weeds yard Author: crackerjackhoghead Also, while not actually part of the Weeds, just west of the Weeds, between Grande Vista and Soto ST., there used to be a couple of interesting industry leads.

Rough count in Lovelock this afternoon was 36 private vehicles, 24 UPRR white trucks, 24 on-track MOW equipment, 4 tank cars, 8 gondolas, 36 porta-potties, 8 semi trailers, 8 RV's, 3 UPRR busses and about 15 contractor trucks. It's like Barnum and Bailey has come to town.

The "Mulford" line on the UPRR Coast Subdivision used to be good for 70 MPH Passenger and 60 MPH Freight. Today I rode Train #11 from Oakland to San Jose and we went at a very slow speed from Elmhurst to almost Newark. I am looking at a slow order on the UP Bulletins that shows a slow order of 30 passenger and 25 freight from MP 14.0 to MP 24.7.

Minor Derailment in Far Northern California on the UPrr Author: TCnR Getting word from a number of sources about the last few cars of the morning southbound Z train derailiing at north Hotlum, that's the classic location overlooking the valley below where SP had a cantilver signal with a steep rocky bluff on one side and a steep cliff on the ...

It has been a little over five years ago that we suddenly lost Lynn Nystrom, steam engineer for the Union Pacific and a good friend to many railfans across the country ! Lynn was much more instrumental to the 3985's resurrection than most people know. …

Agree that the Oregon or PNW traffic that the SP had would now be running from Portland through Hinkle and then into the heritage UPRR system, which killed Eugene and also the Modoc. CORP also generates approx two trains daily in their own system and hands them over to the UPRR for routing from Judkins/Eugene to KF to Roseville and then off to ...

The MPXTU/MTUPX (Phoenix/Tucson) trains are usually 2 each way per day but not always. The MPXTU will have lots of centerbeam empties, empty auto racks, anywhere from 10 to 30 copper concentrate loads (FXE gondolas usually) and whatever else UP tacks on.

These were very good power for the SP and then the UPRR. I loved running them, especially the "Faux SD45s" as they were called which had had their original V-20s simply "cut down" by MK with a laser process patented by MK removing the middle 4 cylinders and crankshaft replacement turning them into standard 3000 HP V-16s like all the rest.