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Stopped Train at Haggin, Sacramento, 11 Feb 2017
Union Pacific has problems in northern California.
The Feather River Canyon route is closed by washouts at several locations.
Yesterday, the Track-Roseville turn derailed at the Cosumnes River near Elk Grove, closing the Freson Sub between Sacramento and Stockton, so trains were diverting via the Sacramento Sub, requiring trains going to or from Roseville or Oakland to back around the wye at Haggin, in Sacramento.
A train was backing onto the Sac Sub this morning and encountered some high voltage electrical wires that were down across the track and highway 160 and the train was stopped with its engines fouling the #1 main of the Martinez Sub at Haggin, at the Blue Diamond almond plant.
I checked out the situation at Haggin this afternoon and while I was there a Renzenberger van came and picked up the crew of the stopped train and a train that might have been the Roseville-West Colton manifest (MRVWC) came west. This train might go over Altamont and return to the valley route, or possibly go down the Coast Route.
All in all, the kind of mess UP has not had to endure for a few years around here...messed up like 2011 when Donner was closed by snow or 2007, when the trestle by the American River bridge burned on the Martinez Sub.
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Stopped Train at Haggin, Sacramento, 11 Feb 2017
Union Pacific has problems in northern California.
The Feather River Canyon route is closed by washouts at several locations.
Yesterday, the Track-Roseville turn derailed at the Cosumnes River near Elk Grove, closing the Freson Sub between Sacramento and Stockton, so trains were diverting via the Sacramento Sub, requiring trains going to or from Roseville or Oakland to back around the wye at Haggin, in Sacramento.
A train was backing onto the Sac Sub this morning and encountered some high voltage electrical wires that were down across the track and highway 160 and the train was stopped with its engines fouling the #1 main of the Martinez Sub at Haggin, at the Blue Diamond almond plant.
I checked out the situation at Haggin this afternoon and while I was there a Renzenberger van came and picked up the crew of the stopped train and a train that might have been the Roseville-West Colton manifest (MRVWC) came west. This train might go over Altamont and return to the valley route, or possibly go down the Coast Route.
All in all, the kind of mess UP has not had to endure for a few years around here...messed up like 2011 when Donner was closed by snow or 2007, when the trestle by the American River bridge burned on the Martinez Sub.