Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

I got a couple of videos I thought you guys might like this past weekend while following a train on the Washington and Idaho Railway.

The first (although manly focused on my horn) has an old pair of cantilevers. The lights have recently been replaced, but everything else, including lack of a bell, is original.



And on google SV:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 7,,0,-0.16

The second is a video specifically focused on a crossing, in this case one with a WRRS mini bell.



and on google SV:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 97,,0,7.46

The mini bell crossing had signal masts that were beginning to lean, due to the concrete bases being broken from freeze thaw. Even the relay case got a new base, but they just took the old case, mini bell and all, and put it on a new base! The masts were all replaced with new ones with LED's.

I remember answering in an old survey that I liked shortline signals the best because they only replace what they need to, and leave the old stuff. Well here is 2 perfect examples of that!

Mini bell in Washington... NICE!

KLM92 wrote:What railroad would have installed those cantilevers? That looks to me like an old SP&S install.

The line was built by NP as their Palouse & Lewiston (P&L) branch line. Later run by BN, then picked up by Watco and then the W&I. NP and later BN maintained it to main line standards. My guess is that those cantilevers were an NP install (same thing for that mini bell). SP&S was after all a jointly owned subsidiary of NP and GN, so it wouldn't surprise me to see all three using similar stuff.

[quote="Mafarnz"]The first (although manly focused on my horn) has an old pair of cantilevers. The lights have recently been replaced, but everything else, including lack of a bell, is original.[quote]

Pretty cool video... you mimicking the train horn. Did the train crew like it or were they maybe more annoyed by it?

Mafarnz wrote:The first (although manly focused on my horn) has an old pair of cantilevers. The lights have recently been replaced, but everything else, including lack of a bell, is original.

Pretty cool video... you mimicking the train horn. Did the train crew like it or were they maybe more annoyed by it?

cabman701 wrote: Pretty cool video... you mimicking the train horn. Did the train crew like it or were they maybe more annoyed by it?

They know me, and didn't mind. In fact the engineer later said "right on!"