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Paul, <br /> The Keddie wye can be a real crap shoot. Sometimes there will be many trains and sometimes none for awhile. I have been vacationing up at Lake Almanor for the last four summers in a row, usually for a week. The BNSF "inside gateway" or "highline" seems to have around six to eight trains per day when I was there. Although the BNSF seems to run in the dark of the evening and very early in the morning as I can hear the horns from where I stay on the lake. I will sometimes get lucky if I go out right before sunset around Almanor. As for Keddie I have been told the weekends are pretty flat. You can usually find a BNSF southbound sitting at the signal up the hill from the wye around mid-morining 9 or 10ish. I have pridominately seen mostly westbound UP's around mid day and they seem to come a couple at a time. Usually a few double stackers rolling by. If you are going to the wye you can climb over the guard rail on the down hill side of highway 70 (two lane, fast logging trucks). Be real careful to pull way off of the road to the opposite side of the highway from the wye, there is a nice big dirt turn out as you round the corner right above the wye heading toward the town of Quincy. Be real careful crossing the highway on foot as the logging trucks come very fast around the sharp corner of the highway. You can get a pretty good shot from above the wye once you have climbed your body physically off of the highway and over the guard rail. You can also choose to carefully walk down the very steep trail to get a little closer to the action. Be very careful as loose rock and dirt are the trails surface, wear some good boots or shoes with vibram type soles. I went down all the way to the wye last year by the tracks, but was questioned by a track inspector as to what I was doing. Not a good idea to be too close to the wye or the tunnel that is to the west of the wye as it makes crews suspicious of foul play even though you are just interested in trains. If you do go to the wye you owe it to yourself to drive a few more miles past Quincy to see Williams Loop where the train actually loops over itself as it climbs the loop or descends. Williams Loop is located right by the Spring Garden overcrossing, this is where the highway crosses over the tracks. The loop is around 7.5 miles east of Quincy on Highway 70/89 and will be to your right side once you have gone over the overpass. It is hard to see from the road as it is hidden by the forest even though it is right next to the highway. <br /> <br /> Have fun, <br /> Brad
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