Military Rd. (Sherwood, WI)

[AndyWS]

http://www.rxrsignals.net/Wisconsin/R-Z ... /Military/

Google Street View reveals...

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=44.1 ... 1,,0,-0.73

Goodbye gateless Griswold Type Bs.

This change has to have happened sometime after mid-May 2008, which was the last time I went by the crossing.

[Smjh1979]

That was unexpected... I was expecting to see the 8" removed and replaced with 12"x24" frames. I wasn't expecting Safetran cantilevers, a Safetran type 3 e-bell and gates...

[owensri]

Funny how everything but the gate mechansims are Safetran. The mechanisms are US&S Model 95's.

[Arizona_Mike]

And double sided crossbucks to boot...

[cabman701]

That is quite an updgrade. Is anyone thinking overkill? Does that line get that much use?

[TommyBNSF]

The crossing is owned by Crap National, what do you expect?

[Smjh1979]

FRA says only 4 daily trains since 2005. Who knows if there's been an increase, but somehow I doubt it. Maybe they've been watching the SJVR too much?

[AndyWS]

That's the CN Manitowoc Sub, the daily train count is pretty accurate, if anything a bit high.

IIRC there's a daily train to/from Manitowoc, and another that takes a secondary branch from Hilbert south to Kiel on alternate days...so some days it gets 4, other days only 2.

I am surprised by the Safetran Type 3 e-bell, which I didn't even notice until Mike pointed it out. CN has almost exclusively used GS Type 2 bells on their new/upgrade installations for a few years, even though they used other Safetran equipment like the cantilevers and frames for the Dialight L.E.D.s.