 |
MP: 0479.49 |
Updated September 25, 2020
Total Accidents: 3
Crossing
DOT #: 351566R
TOTAL
DAILY TRAINS: 2 (AS OF 2012)
Page created by: freebrickproductions
This crossing is located on the EARY with CSX having trackage rights over it.
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Overviews of the crossing. |
The first signal. |
||
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
It's a Harmon cantilever. |
The gate mechanism is from WCH. |
The mast lights are Harmon 12x20 inch lights with Electro-Tech LEDs in them. |
|
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
The overhead lights are more Harmon 12x20 inch lights with UP LEDs. |
The bell on this signal is a WRRS mechanical bell! |
||
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
The gate lights are a mixture of L&W and NEG gate lights. |
The second signal. |
||
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
It is a Harmon cantilever. |
Another WCH gate mechanism. |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
All of the lights on this signal are more Harmon 12x20 inch lights with Electro-Tech LEDs in them. |
|||
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
A Genereral Signals Type-2 electronic bell is on this signal. |
The gate lights here are RECO LED gate lights. |
Track views. Picture 27 looks southeast towards South Street. Picture 28 looks northwest towards McKinley Street and West Street #1. |
|
29 |
30 |
31 |
32 |
The relay case with the DOT number on it. |
Action shots. |
||
33 |
34 |
35 |
36 |
A CSX local goes through the crossing with an ex-NS GP38-2 on its way back to the CSX Lineville Sub after dropping off some cars on the EARY. |
|||
37 |
38 |
39 |
40 |
41 |
42 |
43 |
A return trip on 12-2-19 finds that the signal with the WRRS bell has had its gate lights replaced with RECO incandescent gate lights!
The other signal also got incandescent gate lights, but I didn't notice until the crossing activated, as seen below. |
|||
44 |
45 |
46 |
47 |
The crossing activates! The WRRS bell here sounds like it has also gotten a tune-up sometime within the past few years, as it sounds a bit stronger than before, IMHO. |
|||
48 |
49 |
50 |
51 |
CSX A714 shoves into the crossing. |
|||
52 |
53 |
54 |
55 |
56 |
57 |
58 |
59 |
60 |
61 |
62 |
63 |
64 |
65 |
66 |
67 |
68 |
69 |
70 |
71 |
72 |
73 |
74 |
75 |
76 |
77 |
78 |
79 |
80 |
81 |
82 |
83 |
84 |
85 |
86 |
87 |
88 |
89 |
90 |
91 |
A GP40-3 is the power for this train. |
|||
92 |
93 |
94 |
The train shoves clear of the crossing... |
||
95 |
96 |
97 |
98 |
...and the gates rise. |
|||
The crossing is owned by the EARY, but as you can see, CSX also operates over this crossing.
Pictures 1-39 and the first video were taken on June 15, 2015.
Pictures 40-98 and the second video were taken on 12-2-19.