31st St, Independence, MO

[KCMO Railfan]

Recorded on 12-18-20. Another video of this crossing in action, a long awaited one too. Sorry if the video is a tad bit shaky. Another instance of dealing with gusty winds. Anyway, I went out railfanning with my good friend Kristopher as he was wanting to film some trains today. We caught 2 trains in Sugar Creek (which will be uploaded at a later date), and 2 at this spot (one being the stacktrain in this video, and the eastbound MNA where my camera almost toppled over). We decided to film here at 31st St as I haven't filmed here since March when I caught Amtrak 316 (the Missouri River Runner). Our first train we caught here was a westbound 2x1x0 stacktrain with a tier 4 gevo leading. No changes have happened here since the last time I've filmed here. Typical mid 2000's UP install that replaced older MoPac signals in 2006 (its unsure what the older signals were that UP replaced here when the current signals were installed), but I can assume it was either gateless signals or older gated signals similar to what Cottage St, and others in Independence I've filmed in action.

[KCMO Railfan]

Recorded on 1-19-21. Another vid I've took of this crossing, this time with the eastbound MNA. No changes here since I've last recorded this crossing in December of 2020.