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This crossing is near a cement plant.
The dust you see on the signals is from recent rains, and that dust has stuck onto the signals. The weird part is that there's someone that works at the plant that comes out everyday and cleans the red lenses on the lights! Picture 3 shows a mechanical bell, while picture 4 shows a General Signals electronic bell.
These pictures were taken May 10, 2005. |
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The crossbuck on this signal looks brand new, and double sided. |
Modern Industries lights. |
We now see that the mechanical bell is WCH. |
Weird stop sign to the right of the signal. |
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A wide shot of the crossing. |
A closer look at the General Signals electronic bell. |
Facing West. |
Facing East. |
These first 12 pictures were taken March 27, 2006 by Bill Steck.
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A train is approaching the crossing. |
The signals start up. This is on the General Signals E bell side. |
The gates lower. |
The train is almost here. |
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The train crosses the crossing. |
A side view of the east signal in action with thre lights of the cement plant in the background. |
A closeup of the crossbucks and the GS E bell. It is a type 1. |
A side closeup view of the lights in action. |
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The train continues. |
A panned in shot of the main lights. They are quite bright at night. |
The train is ending. |
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The train finishes going over the crossing. |
The the bells and main lights quit. |
The gate lights remain lit as the gates rise. |
The show is over. |
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The train going into the distance towards Tehachapi. |
Pictures 13-29 were taken from a video that Patrick (rrxingrick@aol.com) took of the crossing in mid December 2006.
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CLICK THE ICON TO THE LEFT TO HEAR THE CROSSING IN ACTION. (RECORDED 2006. THE AUDIO IS NOT FROM PICTURES 13-29 ABOVE.) |
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A return trip on October 28, 2009 by Bill Steck shows the crossing in action, as well as some small changes. The bell seen in pictures 30 and 31 changed from a WCH mechanical bell to a GS electronic bell, and in picture 32, the GS electronic bell changed to a WCH electronic bell. |
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The train only takes 1 minute to cross before the gates rise in picture 34. |
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