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This crossing is located on the UP Sidney Subdivision.


These pictures were taken September 18, 2010 by TrainmanKight.


UPDATE AS OF 09-10-24: This crossing has since been closed and replaced by an overpass.

 

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This 6-track crossing has all WCH equipment, including their bells, light frames, gate mechanisms, 1st Generation LEDs, and LED gate lights.

There is another passive crossing in the background of picture 1, which is not covered here.

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In picture 4, you can see that this crossing is the dividing line between the Central and Mountain time zones.

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The gates at this crossing has a high risk of being knocked off quite frequently, so to speed up recovery efforts, a new gate is ready to take the place of whichever one happens to get broken first.

Notice that the new gate does not have WCH LED gate lights.

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The reason for the high amount of tracks, is because this is just to the West of a major rail yard.

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Track views on the main line.

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Two LEDs seen in picture 30 are burned out on the gate light.

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The scratches and the piece covering the gate light cord shows that this gate gets hit on a regular basis.

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