{"id":2122,"date":"2013-04-21T06:03:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T10:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2013-04-23T12:06:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T16:06:22","slug":"southern-pacifics-roseville-yard-february-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/southern-pacifics-roseville-yard-february-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Pacific\u2019s Roseville Yard, February 1990."},"content":{"rendered":"

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SP SD7s work the East-end of Roseville Yard.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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SP SD7s work Roseville Yard in February 1990. Exposed on Kodachrome 25 slide film with a Leica M2 fitted with a Leitz f2.8 90mm Elmarit. Metered manually using a Sekonic Studio Deluxe handheld photocell light meter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In early 1990, I was living in Roseville, California and working in Sacramento. I worked nights, which meant I had lots of daylight to play with for photography. However, this was a Saturday evening. The day had been miserable\u2014cold, damp, and dark. Not what people think of as \u2018California weather,\u2019 but typical enough for winter.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d been itching to make some photos, but theses dire conditions were uninspiring. Roseville wasn\u2019t especially photogenic even on a good day, but there was lots of railroad interest around the place. Toward the end of the day, I saw clearing to the West, so I nipped down to the yard.<\/p>\n

The East-end of Roseville was fairly accessible from public property. There was a grade crossing near the split between East Valley and Donner Pass routes. I made this image just as the sun dropped below clouds that were still spitting rain. A pair of SP\u2019s venerable EMD SD7s working the East end caught the glint of the setting sun. The dark sky and glossy ground with evening sun is hard to top.<\/p>\n

This remains one of my few good photos of Roseville Yard. Since then, Union Pacific merged with SP, and UP completely rebuilt the yard. The SD7s are long gone.<\/p>\n

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