Passenger Trains > Detouring Starlight, Train 11(10)

Departed Oakland 857am on 11APR with AMTK 45 leading. Minor delay
account Mechanical, Dispatch held Capitol Corridor Train 527 for it.

At Fremont, 935a.

Fremont Webcam "movies" show no Parlour Car, Diner substituting; and private round-end dome on rear.

http://depot.vs.oiccam.com:443/imgdispjs.pl?hm=http://www.oiccam.com/depotdiner/north.html&cm=depottrain&ti=0411093832

http://depot.vs.oiccam.com:443/imgdispjs.pl?hm=http://www.oiccam.com/depotdiner/photo.html&cm=depotphoto&ti=0411093838

Leave it running...Capitol Corridor Train 527 arrives and departs immediately after Train 11 passes. Lead coach (behind engine) is
a Superliner.

Train is now in Niles Canyon.

-GP



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/11 10:10 by GenePoon.

california zephyr silver solarium on the rear traversing some familiar territory.

What was the stop in Tracy for?

I'm train 11. We are stopped outside of Lathrop waiting for a UP track crew to finish repairing and testing a switch. Once we get the all clear, I expect for us to move into Lathrop to turn the train south.

Keith

I saw you guys stopped in tracy just wondering why..

Intermittent radio traffic has been heard from what sounds like the detouring Coast Starlight, Train 11(10).
This would indicate that it's probably out of Bakersfield; if so, this puts it about an hour behind yesterday's detour.

Meanwhile, engineer of a freight on Tehachapi has reported an Amtrak bus at a grade crossing at mp380 (?)
stopped with crossing gate on top of bus and with the passengers "standing around." Train missed the bus by
less than four feet, by engineer's estimate; and the last he saw, the bus was still sitting there.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/11 16:58 by GenePoon.

380 is in Mojave - no CHP reports of such an incident, which would probably be at the Jawbone branch crossing...

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA

Metrolink will take #11 at 7:25
Dennis

MojaveBill Wrote:
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> 380 is in Mojave - no CHP reports of such an incident, which would probably be at the Jawbone
> branch crossing...

I made some inquiries. Turns out it was a BNSF channel on the radio feed, and the milepost wasn't "380" but "780"
(the radio feed was weak and noisy). This would put it on the BNSF Mojave Sub, four miles east of Boron.

EDIT: more info:

Dan Monroe, who is more familiar than I with that area, describes the
crossing:

> I heard that radio traffic too about that near miss with the Amtrak
> Bus. I am very familiar with the location of that HWY 58 crossing.
>
> This very dangerous crossing is located just east of Boron. Boron is
> located about midway between MOJAVE and BARSTOW in the High Desert.
> At this location highway 58 goes in an "S" curve from the
> NORTH to SOUTH side of the former ATSF mainline from MOJAVE to
> BARSTOW.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/11 20:46 by GenePoon.

11(10) arrived Los Angeles 935pm