Oak St. Wyandotte, MI Conrail Upgrade

[nickrink]

Right now, at Oak St. in Wyandotte, MI, Conrail is doing upgrades on both of their tracks. Right now the progress they made is putting up a new cantilever and the bell on it is a WCH mechanical bell! The bell on the old cantilever used to be a GS Type 2 E-bell. I believe the rest of the bells will also be WCH mechanical bells. The lights on the new cantilever are Harmon 12x24 fading LED lights, which I believe will be on the rest of the signals also. Right now they have one done which they finished on Thursday and they are working on the other one that is on that track. I will get a video of all the new signals once they are done. Thanks for reading!

[freebrickproductions]

Nice! Glad to see more mechanical bells installed, especially since it appears that the NJ Transit is trying out e-bells again. Also, the LEDs are GE Uniform Look (Fading) LEDs, not Harmon.

[nickrink]

Me too! Are a lot of E-Bells popping up on that line? I got all the information from YouTube so that's why I said Harmon. If I was there already with the new signals installed, I would have known.

[freebrickproductions]

Me too! Are a lot of E-Bells popping up on that line?

So far, only two e-bells have been installed at one crossing.

I got all the information from YouTube so that's why I said Harmon. If I was there already with the new signals installed, I would have known.

Personally, I'm betting that the LEDs will be Dialight.

[ZachL]

Wyandotte has some of my favorite crossings in the whole country because of how they're set up. I would definitely love to see pictures of what they're doing at Oak Street. That'd be sad though if Conrail removed their 1980s Safetran cantilevers, though.

[ToledoRailfan]

Wyandotte has some of my favorite crossings in the whole country because of how they're set up.

They're kind of like a bit more extreme versions of numerous crossings on the NS Detroit line/CN Shore Line Subdivision.

[ZachL]

Wyandotte has some of my favorite crossings in the whole country because of how they're set up.

They're kind of like a bit more extreme versions of numerous crossings on the NS Detroit line/CN Shore Line Subdivision.

IIRC, those are the same line right?

[ToledoRailfan]

Wyandotte has some of my favorite crossings in the whole country because of how they're set up.

They're kind of like a bit more extreme versions of numerous crossings on the NS Detroit line/CN Shore Line Subdivision.

IIRC, those are the same line right?

Kind of, another CN/GTW (it is kind of complicated) line kind of joins in which is why the Wyandotte crossings have four tracks instead of three and the NS Detroit line becomes a Conrail line.

[ZachL]

AFAIK, NS and Conrail are actually related, or one-in-the same. I understand that NS itself acquired the original Conrail, but there are areas that still operate under the Conrail name.

[ToledoRailfan]

AFAIK, NS and Conrail are actually related, or one-in-the same. I understand that NS itself acquired the original Conrail, but there are areas that still operate under the Conrail name.

Conrail Shared Assets Operations (officially just Conrail) is its own railroad in its own right. The railroad itself is owned by CSX and Norfolk Southern, this kind of came to be when CSX and Norfolk Southern merged with Conrail, the reason for the new Conrail railroad is kind of complicate.