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Northern
Signal |
Southern
Signal |
Bell:
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WCH E-Bell
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WCH E-Bell
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Base:
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Safetran
5" Single Sided
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Safetran
5" Single Sided
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Light
Brackets:
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Safetran
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Safetran
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Lights:
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4 -
12"x20" Safetran w/ Electro-Tech LEDs
2 - 12"x20" Safetran w/ WCH Clear LEDs
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4 -
12"x20" FS w/ Electro-Tech LEDs
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Gate
Lights:
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3 -
Electro-Tech 4" LEDs
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3 -
Electro-Tech 4" LEDs
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Gate
Mechanism:
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Siemens
Sticker Style 1
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Safetran
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Gate
Striping:
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Vertical
Striping
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Vertical
Striping
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Pictures 1-9 were taken by Bill Steck on October 30, 2008.
Pictures 10-52 were taken by KCMO Railfan on October 13, 2024.
This crossing is located on the UP Kansas Subdivision.
1
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2
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3
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The relay case.
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Facing East.
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Facing West.
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4
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5
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6
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A Safetran mechanical bell.
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The light frames are from Safetran and WCH.
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A look at one of the signals.
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7
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8
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9
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Incandescent and WCH clear LED mixes.
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This signal has a WCH electronic bell.
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An overview of the crossing.
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A return trip on October 13, 2024, by
KCMO Railfan shows some changes that occurred here since 2008.
10
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11
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Overview facing north. |
Overview facing south. |
12 |
13 |
Front
view of the northern signal.
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A look at
the front, and side lights on the northern signal.
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14 |
15 |
16 |
The main
pairs of lights on the northern signal now feature Electro-Tech LEDs
retrofitted in the light frames as part of UP's 2011 LED upgrade.
|
Close up
at one of the Electro-Tech LEDs in one of the main pairs of lights on
the northern signal.
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The
northern signal received the ENS sign sometime in the mid 2010s. UP
repositioned it in late 2023 to be more visible to oncoming traffic. |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
The
signal base on the northern signal is from Safetran.
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The side
lights on the northern signal still retain their WCH Clear LEDs!
|
Close up
at one of the WCH Clear LEDs in one of the side lights on the northern
signal.
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The light
bracket for the side lights is from Safetran.
|
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
The light
bracket for the main pairs of lights on the northern signal is also
from Safetran.
|
The rear
lights on the northern signal are a mixture of WCH, and Safetran 12x20
lights while the front lights are both from Safetran.
|
Close up
at one of the Safetran lights on the northern signal.
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Close up
at the lone WCH light on the northern signal.
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25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
The side
lights on the northern signal are also from Safetran.
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Close up
at one of the Safetran lights on one of the side pair of lights on the
northern signal.
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The gate
mechanism on the northern signal is now a Siemens gate mechanism. No
idea what happened to the previous Safetran gate mech that existed here
previously.
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The bell
on the northern signal is now a WCH Electronic Bell which replaced the
original Safetran Mechanical Bell around 2011.
|
29 |
30 |
31 |
32 |
The
gate on the northern signal now features the vertical striping along
with the gate lights now featuring Electro-Tech gate lights. |
Close up
at one of the Electro-Tech LEDs.
|
A look at
the rear lights on the northern signal which also feature Electro-Tech
LEDs in the light frames.
|
Back view
of the northern signal.
|
The northern
signal. |
33 |
34 |
35 |
36 |
Front
view of the southern signal.
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A look at
the front lights on the southern signal.
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Like the
northern signal, all of the lights on the southern signal now feature
Electro-Tech LEDs retrofitted in the light frames as part of UP's 2011
LED upgrade that occurred on this line, and others within
Kansas/Missouri.
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Close up
at one of the Electro-Tech LEDs on the southern signal.
|
37 |
38 |
39 |
40 |
The
southern signal received the ENS sign sometime in the mid 2010s. UP
repositioned it in late 2023 to be more visible to oncoming traffic. |
The
signal base on the southern signal is from Safetran.
|
The gate
mechanism on the southern signal is also from Safetran. Fortunately UP
didn't swap out the gate mech on this side like they did on the
northern signal.
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The light
bracket on the southern signal is also from Safetran.
|
41 |
42 |
43 |
44 |
The
lights on the southern signal are all from Federal Signals.
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Close up
at one of the Federal Signals lights on the southern signal.
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The WCH
Electronic Bell seen in picture 8 appears to still be present. I
suspect a Safetran or WCH Mechanical Bell existed here previously at
some point
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The
southern signal now features the ugly crossbuck font that UP loves to
use as replacements. The northern signal also has one too, but I didn't
bother getting a picture of it.
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45 |
46 |
47 |
48 |
The
gate on the southern signal now features the vertical striping along
with the gate lights now featuring Electro-Tech gate lights. |
Close up
at one of the Electro-Tech LEDs.
|
A look at
the rear lights on the southern signal which also features Electro-Tech
LEDs in the light frames.
|
Back view
of the southern signal.
|
The southern
signal. |
49
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50
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51
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52
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The relay bungalow. |
The grade is all
concrete. |
Track view facing
east towards Douglas Rd. in Perry. |
Track view facing
west towards Clark Rd. |
Note that both gates have those weird looking unidentifiable LED
gate lights.
UPDATE. The gate lights that were previously labeled as
"unidentifiable" turned out to been made by Electro-Tech. At the time
of pictures 1-9, nobody knew who exactly made those gate lights as they
started to pop up on UP lines sometime around late 2008-2011.