Many bell changes/upgrades around St. Louis

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Many bell changes/upgrades around St. Louis

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Starting tonight with those I don't have pictures to upload of:

* Kirkwood Road UP crossing in Kirkwood, MO: The Northbound (south side of tracks) WCH m-bell has been changed to a WCH e-bell

* Davis Ferry Street UP crossing south of Dupo, IL: The black, non-teardrop bell has been replaced with a GS style e-bell, otherwise, this gated crossing appeared unchanged.

* Pontoon Road in the Pontoon Beach, IL area at Alton and Southern: This one had a Westbound new pole with a WCH e-bell, rear lights, and an empty gate holder behind the westbound cantilever. Current view:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UT ... 51,,0,-0.8

* Pontoon Road at NS, UP and KCS: Pontoon Road has been shifted onto the new crossing pictured in streetview. The new signals consist of gates with a Safetran type 3 e-bell on the EB signal. Old view:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UT ... 89,,0,1.84
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The electronic bell for Kirkwood is old news. That happened back on April 24, 2009. The webpage for that crossing has the update listed on it, although there are no pictures yet.
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that sucks!
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CIC755 wrote:Starting tonight with those I don't have pictures to upload of:[/url]
Yah iam slowing makeing my way to get ALL of up rr xings on mikes site
if you want to get railroad xings stick with bnsf and railroads in il
up jeff city sub i got just havent uploaded yet (dont even waste your time going to midtown st louis anymore)
up in dupo il you can get that i dont have plans to go out there soon
ialso soon want to get pictures of that double xing in eureka
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The IL 3 crossing at Monsanto Avenue has changed from the m-bells in streetview to GS-style electronics.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UT ... 8,,0,-4.28
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CIC755 wrote:The IL 3 crossing at Monsanto Avenue has changed from the m-bells in streetview to GS-style electronics.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UT ... 8,,0,-4.28
off topic
but this xing 6576 Collinsville Rd, Sauget, IL, United States
didnt it used to have m-bells and A-gates
i know i saw agate on my way to Cahokia Mounds on a school field trip a few years ago
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CIC755 wrote:The IL 3 crossing at Monsanto Avenue has changed from the m-bells in streetview to GS-style electronics.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UT ... 8,,0,-4.28
Looks like it was a very windy day when the google car got this crossing. Look how much that gate closest to the camra is bending! Wow!
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Crossingman18 wrote:
CIC755 wrote:The IL 3 crossing at Monsanto Avenue has changed from the m-bells in streetview to GS-style electronics.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UT ... 8,,0,-4.28
Looks like it was a very windy day when the google car got this crossing. Look how much that gate closest to the camra is bending! Wow!
No not windy look at the grass and the smoke in the distance its all pointing the other way
plus with all the truck traffic this area gets probable some dumb truck went around the gate and hit the rear of that gate
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The bell at Leffingwell #1 in Kirkwood is back to only ringing from activation until the gate is down and again when the gate rises.
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That's surprising... Especially since it's a quiet zone there.
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