MP:  000447.490

 

Created June 25, 2018

 

Total Accidents:   1
Crossing DOT #:  352341P
TOTAL DAILY TRAINS:   12   (AS OF 2017)

 

Page created by: freebrickproductions

 

This crossing is located on the CSX S&NA South Subdivision.

 

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Overviews of this almost-pure 1990s CSX install.
The first signal.

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It's a Lincoln Industries cantilever.
The emergency information.
The front mast lights are WCH 12x24 inch lights!

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The overhead lights are more WCH 12x24 inch lights!
A Safetran base.
A Safetran gate mechanism.

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The rear mast lights are Safetran 12x24 inch lights.
The bell is a General Signals Type 2 electronic bell.
These gate lights are all Safetran incandescent gate lights!

 

The only non-original things at this crossing are the bell and emergency information signs! Everything else here is entirely original to the 1990s install!

 

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The second signal.
Another Safetran base.
Another Safetran gate mechanism.

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A warning sticker about overhead power lines.
The emergency information.
This signal has all Safetran 12x24 inch lights, with the "front" lights being positioned rather poorly, IMO.

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The gate lights are two Safetran incandescent gate lights and a RECO incandescent gate light (with a blown bulb)!
Track view looking north towards Jackson Avenue.
Track view looking south towards Logan Road.

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The relay case with the street name on it.
The crossing activates!

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A southbound CSX grain train comes through with two YN2 AC44CWs, CSX 34 and CSX 32, for power!

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The train passes and the crossing deactivates...
...except for a breif tail-ring malfunction afterwards!

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A return trip to the crossing on 1-8-22 finds that CSX has replaced all of the gate lights here.

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The first signal now has all NEG LED gate lights.

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The second signal now has more NEG LED gate lights. The front lights here were also re-aimed and now face the same way.

 

 

 

Pictures 1-48 and the first video were taken on 11-29-17.

Pictures 49-56 were taken on 1-8-22.

The second video was taken on 6-26-22.