This crossing is about 200 feet from the Yavapai Rd. crossing.

 

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The following clips were taken on 5/18/2000.

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Here is an older picture of this crossing back in 1989. I am in the picture too by the signal. Notice the gate is mostly white with no stripes. This remained until around 1992 or 1993 when they got either new gates or a new paint job.

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Stop Stop?! This sign has been here ever since I can remember.

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More Views from Apache St. Sorry about the brightness for Picture 9, but I accidentally turned up the brightness on my camcorder.

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Updated photos taken December 28, 2003.

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Looking North.

Looking South. I still haven't gotten the hand of the camera yet, as shown in picture 15.

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Here's a very old picture of the Apache crossing, taken sometime around 1977 or 1978. The crossing was crossbuck until around 1978, when it got the 12"x20" gated signals that are still there to this day. Note the "3 Tracks" signs. Three tracks would hang around until 1986, when it was torn down to one, just a few months before I moved over there.

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On August 8, 2005, I just beat a train from Congress over here. I chose Apache Dr. because 1994 was the last time I got a train crossing through here, and Yavapai since 2000, and Vulture Mine since 2003.

 

Upon getting here, I noticed that the gate was leaning too far forward. Probably a careless motorist, or possibly severe weather? I don't know, but when the train eventually got here, the gate lowered as usual, but the top of the gate crashed down to the ground making a double "thumping" sound. In picture 19, you can see how badly the gate really is.

Also, the broken gate had something else wrong with it. Both gates have 4" L.E.D. gate lights, but the broken gate had all three gate lights flash! Normally, two flash, while the one furthest out always stays lit. The other signal did work that way though, but not the broken one...

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When the gates rose, the opposite signal went up in about 7 seconds. The other gate took another 8 seconds to rise, and the bells and lights kept on going for 5 of those 8 seconds.

 
CLICK THE ICON TO THE LEFT TO HEAR PART 1 IN ACTION.
(RECORDED AUGUST 8, 2005)



 

 

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Just like what happened in Congress, the train stopped short of the Yavapai, timing both the Apache and Yavapai signals out. Two minutes later, the Yavapai signals start up again, and another 30 seconds later, the Apache signals started up again, with the thudding gate once again occuring. The train slowly approached the crossing, and it almost stopped again, but instead it kept going, and someone got out of the locomotive, while it was moving, through the crossing.

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The train eventually crossed, and the gates went up the same as last time, with the broken one taking 13 seconds to rise. The General Signals Type 1 electronic bells continue to ring as the gates fully rise.

 
CLICK THE ICON TO THE LEFT TO HEAR PART 2 IN ACTION.
(RECORDED AUGUST 8, 2005)