OPRRMS Wrote:
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> WebDigger Wrote:
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> > On 03-28-2020 - 21:46, KI6WDX Wrote:
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> [www.altamontpress.com]
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> > ,205468,205468
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> > > There are two (2) active RR crossings that
> are
> > made into a wye after the single track that
> heads
> > west-northwest of the RPC yard and for which
> pass
> > underneath I-580 freeway. The two active RR
> > crossings cross Richmond Parkway just prior to
> the
> > I-580 freeway. Do either leg of the wye and/or
> the
> > single track that goes to the RPC yard ever see
> > any train movements and if yes, are the trains
> of
> > the BNSF or the RPC?
> >
> > Is this the place you're asking about?
> >
> [www.google.com]
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> >
> y,+Richmond,+CA+94801/@37.9280491,-122.3791527,15.
>
> >
> 25z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x80859d4d2f31a7ad:0x4de2614e9
>
> > 7280a79!8m2!3d37.9402463!4d-122.369362
>
> Good catch.
>
> So if this is what the OP is referring to, it's
> BNSF's track from their Richmond Yard to just
> north of the Marina Bay crossing; from there, it's
> joint track with RPRC until the Stege Wye where it
> also becomes joint track with UP. It goes passed,
> but not to, what's apparently being referring to
> as the "RPC yard," which is actually called the
> 23rd Street Yard unless somehow its name's been
> changed. The portion from Marina Bay northward to
> at least Cutting was traditionally called the
> "Siberia Lead."


All of the OIG stack trains used this line until the connector at Rheem(?) was completed last year

Way back when, the line to Oakland diverged from the top of the wye.