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The Keddie Wye is a railroad junction in the form of a wye on the Union Pacific Railroad in Plumas County, California, United States. Located at the town of Keddie, it joins the east-west Feather River Route and the "Inside Gateway"—formally, the BNSF Gateway Subdivision—which runs north to Bieber.
A notable feat of railroad engineering, it is the world's only wye with two legs on bridges that meet in a tunnel.[1] The west and north legs of the wye are on bridges over Spanish Creek, and the southeast leg runs through a tunnel (Tunnel No. 32).[2] Just to the northwest, where the two bridged legs join, is Tunnel No. 31.
The wye and the town are named for Arthur W. Keddie, who purchased the survey rights and the right to build a railroad through the Feather River Canyon from George Jay Gould, the son of Jay Gould.
- ^ "Keddie Wye". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
- ^ "USGS Topographic Map of Keddie Wye and vicinity". Archived from the original on March 31, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2010.