Gateway Sub ( 4th Sub/NCE) observation
Author: Tom Mueller
Date: 11-19-2018 - 09:51
I drove up to Portola and Lake Almanor on Saturday. Caught a W/B grain struggling up towards Halleljua but that was it on the Canyon Sub. I noticed signals up at/or near Moccasin as well as up the Gateway all the way to Almanor siding. All of these signals were facing the tracks leading me to believe the Gateway is now signaled al the way---Is this true? If so is it the entire Sub?
I remember when WP installed signals up to what I believe was Canyon Dam before they pulled them back to Keddie circa 78-80. Made for some great scanner action when a N/B asked for track orders-by the time all the readbacks were done almost 5/10 minutes of radio time had been heard...……………………….