Coxy's N Scale and Railroad Blog

Rather than take more shots at Marina Bay Parkway, I moved over to Meeker Ave. At this point, the Siberia Lead has deviated away from the Richmond Pacific yard. A self storage facility now separates the BNSF rails from those of the RPRC. In fact, the Siberia Lead crosses between the lockers and the office so they have a kind of private grade crossing complete with a sliding safety gate.

The railroad has planted a row of trees and shrubs to separate the track and trains visually from the road. The clearance on either side of the track is wider than it looks from the road.

Note the rose colored ballast starting to show up here giving away the owner of this track. This is heavy continuous welded rail (CWR) laid down a few years ago in preparation for stack train traffic to the Port of Oakland. The Safeway yard tracks were not relaid as part of this exercise so it is interesting to see big stackers with 4 or even 5 Dash-9’s tiptoeing along the RPRC track to Stege.