Western Railroad Discussion > BNSF Feather River reroutes continue

It was reported several days ago that the Feather River route had reopened.   https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,4670622

However, we are still seeing BNSF reroutes come through Dunsmuir. Saw a southbound this afternoon and there seems to still be at least a couple a day.

Anyone have an update on the situation?

 

All I know is that there have been NO trains on the Gateway Sub, since the day the Camp Fire started.
(early on there was a train at both Almanor and Keddie, but after a few days they both went back to KLF.)

DsveL
mp 193.5

Thursday a crew was dead-headed from Sparks to Portola to take a grain train down the canyon which would have been the first train since the fire.   A second crew was expecting to run a westbound manifest westbound on Friday.  I don’t know if either of these trips actually ran.

John Bromley

There was a horn on the Gateway Sub at about  0115 today (Monday), but it didn't sound like a full train. I did not get up to look!

TJY

From what I'm hearing on the RR Radio Feed they have lots of hyrails working on signals and slide fences. They do have the hyrail escorts running in front of trains, there is a 'Storm Order' refered to for running escorts. I haven't heard or seen freight trains directly but they seem to be inferring they have run something.

They are running BNSF detours through Dunsmuir last night and this morning, there's one at Sims right now. The 'UPS' train is at Grass Lake and a fire reported between Sims and Gibson. Just another MoW Monday.

My son, who lives at Quincy Jct, sent me a message that the first UP train in a week rolled past his house at around 7:30 AM last Thursday (11/15).

Copy19 Wrote:
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> Thursday a crew was dead-headed from Sparks to
> Portola to take a grain train down the canyon
> which would have been the first train since the
> fire.   A second crew was expecting to run a
> westbound manifest westbound on Friday.  I
> don’t know if either of these trips actually
> ran.
>
> John Bromley

I spoke to the crew that was to take that grain train and they did indeed go down the FRC. The next day I heard of a crew going to pick up a grain train in the Oroville Yard to bring to RSV and beyond. Presumably that was the same train.

UP just advised BNSF that they will begin to allow trains via the Canyon Sub. According to a BNSF manager I spoke with last night the train makeup compliance parameters differ for Dunsmuir and Keddie trains so they started building them to be compliant both ways so they could route them whichever way UP would let them. You should start seeing some up there soon. Very soon, I hope. I've bees stuck working yard job after they abolished a bunch of pool turns due to the fire. I'm hoping to get back on the road soon.

Just heard about two BNSF southbounds one running and one further north.

TCnR Wrote:
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> Just heard about two BNSF southbounds one running
> and one further north.

Just had one sb by Gateway MP193 (suburban Crescent Mills, CA) at about 1430.

TJY

I talked to a BNSF engineer this afternoon. He said that the signals which had been burned this afternoon were reported to be repaired. He expects a slow return to the FRC in the coming days. The thought being they will want to slowly increase the number of trains so that they aren't fully committed to it in case there are further problems discovered.

Still busy today in Dunsmuir with BNSF reroutes, a southbound grain train this afternoon, another mixed freight a few minutes ago....