Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

http://www.rxrsignals.net/Iowa/Cedar_Rapids/R-Z/Wilson/
Google Street View shows that UP has replaced the tracks # sign and corrected to the right number.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=41.9 ... 8,,1,-3.61

As long as we're speaking about Cedar Rapids, Crandic updated some of the other track signs awhile back.

In addition, the old Edgewood Road Crandic crossing has been replaced by this:


http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UT ... 82.53,,0,5

Original crossing:
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Iowa/Cedar_Ra ... Edgewood1/

Wow, they're doing some real hard-core road construction in that area building 2 overpasses, and I changing the elevation of the roadway as well.

This was how the crossing looked for a few months before Edgewood Rd. was realigned. The crossing was never passive before it was realigned. These pictures were taken shortly after the new alignment opened. The overpasses are complete, final touches to the new roadway are almost complete. Barring any unforseen circumstances, they should open to traffic sometime this week.

Not a bad upgrade, but still, why remove the cantilevers, and a bell?

So they're building an overpass and two frontage roads on either side of it? Weird...

Unless the frontage roads are needed to access driveways or business in that area... my guess is that they will be closed once the overpass opens.

cabman701 wrote:my guess is that they will be closed once the overpass opens.

Part of the existing roadway will be turned into a frontage road to access the General Mills plant. Aside from that, the existing roadway, along with both grade crossings will be torn up after the new overpasses open.

Oh. That explains why the cantilevers weren't reused.

Both Edgewood overpasses are now open, with access to the General Mills plant being via the new Crandic crossing and the old UP crossing as of Tuesday.

Also, the 2nd St SW Crandic crossing has had its other m-bell replaced with a WCH e-bell.