OTN Wrote:
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> Switch 9 did not exist at the same time as Nyack
> Lodge.
> The lodge was removed to build I-80 and the track
> was put in an underpass instead of an overpass
> like it was on H-40.
> In the summer of 1966 a no. 14 crossover was
> installed in this underpass for snow protection
> as CTC was installed between Norden and Switch 9.
> One project I was told about was having the
> engineering department of the Sacramento Division
> measure for the trainmasters use the distance a
> train could be viewed both directions from the
> lounge when comming into view westbound and
> disappearing eastbound through Gap at the location
> of old T-2.
> There was almost a mile of distanc4 that a train
> could be observed from the lounge of Nyack Lodge.
>
> Not all "Weed Weisels" work in the cold and wet.
> Yes Carol the view of the RR was unsurpassed and
> it was a shame to see the lodge go.

Nothing like pulling a rules test with a frosty one in your hand, lol