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Railfanning Keddie and Williams Loop, California: November 21, 2009

 

 

 

 

This is video I shot during my trip to the Feather River Canyon

on November 21, 2009. Train #1) Up on the BNSF Gateway

Sub, a northbound Barstow, California to Pasco, Washington

manifest departs Quarry Road (near Keddie) at 11:14 AM,

 after being recrewed. BNSF GEVo #7531 and C44-9W's

 #4020, #1115, #4539, and #4701 quickly get the train moving

up the 2.2% grade, toward Greenville, with #1115 and #4539

 really smoking it up. From here, looking west into the Feather

 River Canyon, one gets a great perspective of just how much

climbing the Gateway Sub does between Keddie and the

 Indian Valley, a distance of about 10 rail miles. When the

 bulkhead flat rolls by at 1:33, you can see the area west of

 Keddie. Believe it or not, this northbound would have been

 down in that canyon about 20 minutes earlier, still on Union

 Pacific trackage. The elevation here is about 3000 feet above

sea level. Train #2) East of Quincy, California, we relocate to

 Williams Loop where we find some snow on the ground from

the previous night's storm. After waiting about 2 hours, we

 finally see a westbound 96-car MNPRV manifest as it circles

 the loop and crosses under itself. It is definitely an exhilarating

experience to be standing feet from the tracks on the upper

level of the loop and have hundreds of tons of train passing

both next to you and below you simultaneously, with the

 deafening sound of flanges squealing around the tight curve.

 The filming of this train was in very cold, windy, and loud ...

 

 

 

 

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