Ranson Rd, Greenwood, MO

[KCMO Railfan]

Recorded on 4-16-22. Finally was able to catch a train at this crossing even though I missed the activation sequence. After filming the new signals in action at the Atherton Sibley Rd crossing in Atherton, I decided to head down to Greenwood, MO in hopes to film that crossing in action since it was one on the UP Sedalia Sub I wanted to film at since 2020. Fortunately I was in luck since the block signal down the line kicked on for a westbound to fly by. Of course in the typical fashion, the crossing activation caught me off guard, and autofocus just had to come in and find a way to ruin the video by making it go blurry. Don't worry, I will return to this crossing at some point to get a better video here. The main reason I even wanted to film this crossing was because this crossing is one of the few crossings on the Sedalia Sub to have a US&S Mechanical Bell. How do I know this bell is a US&S and not a Modern Industries, well, the answer is simple. Look at the door of the bell and it'll tell you whether or not the bell is a US&S or a Modern Industries. I will do a crossing tour here as well. Another thing to mention, just on the other side of the crossing, there's the remains of the former Rock Island St Louis Subdivision which used to run parallel with the Sedalia Sub back when the line was in service. I think this crossing was once a double crossing when the Rock Island line was in service. The e bell here replaced a wch mechanical bell sometime in 2011 when UP retrofitted the lights to leds. The bells did at one point ring the entire time the signals are activated before UP reprogrammed the bells back to the original MoPac sequence.