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Re: Constant yellow signals on SP's dumbarton cut off
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 08-27-2013 - 18:53
HUTCH 7.62 Wrote:
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> OPRRMS Wrote:
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> > HUTCH 7.62 Wrote:
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> > > Here's the thing, the line was abandoned in
> > 1982.
> > > No other signals were on just the one near
> > willow
> > > road.
> >
> > Actually, the line isn't abandoned, just not
> used
> > as a through route. UP still has hopes of
> someday
> > selling it off for passenger service, just like
> > they do with the west end of the Niles Sub.
> >
> > I have no idea where Willow Road is, but the
> track
> > west of the Dumbarton siding west switch (west
> of
> > where the last industry was) was last used for
> car
> > storage, plus tank cars were loaded with brine
> out
> > there about 20 +/- years ago (WAF might be able
> to
> > pin down the exact time period).
>
>
> Willow road is between East Palo Alto and Belle
> Haven on the Peninsula.
Oh. OK, then. I thought you were talking about some place on the Newark side. In any event, the same reason for the signal being lit up applies here as in my original answer, but delete the part about the car storage and brine loading.
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> OPRRMS Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > HUTCH 7.62 Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Here's the thing, the line was abandoned in
> > 1982.
> > > No other signals were on just the one near
> > willow
> > > road.
> >
> > Actually, the line isn't abandoned, just not
> used
> > as a through route. UP still has hopes of
> someday
> > selling it off for passenger service, just like
> > they do with the west end of the Niles Sub.
> >
> > I have no idea where Willow Road is, but the
> track
> > west of the Dumbarton siding west switch (west
> of
> > where the last industry was) was last used for
> car
> > storage, plus tank cars were loaded with brine
> out
> > there about 20 +/- years ago (WAF might be able
> to
> > pin down the exact time period).
>
>
> Willow road is between East Palo Alto and Belle
> Haven on the Peninsula.
Oh. OK, then. I thought you were talking about some place on the Newark side. In any event, the same reason for the signal being lit up applies here as in my original answer, but delete the part about the car storage and brine loading.
