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Total Accidents: 14 (1/30/75, 12/29/78, 3/17/79, 11/8/79, 12/11/79, 6/11/80  , 5/18/82, 8/5/82, 1/8/83 , 2/15/84, 2/4/92, 4/26/94, 11/14/95, 10/5/2004) |
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All pictures were taken by CIC755.
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Check out this double crossing full of 4 cantilevers with 12"x20" and 12"x24" lights with a combined total of 11 tracks! Picture 3 faces South.
All 4 cantilevers have mismatched background sizes. I wish BNSF could settle on one size only. Also, none of the mast lights have any rear ones. |
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Pictures 1-9 were taken on July 11, 2007.
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The signals start up for a train in pictures 10-15 going across the 2 track crossing. Note that the closer left cantilever IS active, while the right cantilever in the background IS NOT active. Also, neither middle cantilever has gates.
The cantilevers on the edges of the crossings both have GS type 1 electronic bells that go from startup to when the gates rise. |
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Facing NorthEast. |
Facing South-SouthWest. |
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The Topeka Amtrak Station is visible in Pictures 7 and 18.
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Check out the tracks sign. It says 9 tracks! Picture 23 shows the gateless cantilever for the 9 track crossing. There's a WCH mechanical bell on that signal! |
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This is from the 2 track crossing. You can see a third track in both pictures 24 and 26 that was paved over, but is starting to show itself again. The gateless cantilever doesn't have a bell on it. |
Facing West at the 9 track gated signal. The "9" isn't genuine. |
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There is a set of wires visibly sticking out above the chunk of asphalt for what was once an older cantilever base. |
Facing Northeast before the 2 track crossing. |
The lights are off center. on the gated 2 track crossing. |
Pictures 10-30 were taken on July 12, 2007.
As much as I don't like off center lights in picture 30, I'll let this one slide because of what's seen in picture 1. A power pole is obstructing the mast lights.
The FRA said this used to have 12 tracks, but upon seeing some other tracks that dead end before the street, these crossings could've had more than 20 tracks at one point in time.
Depsite 11 tracks between the 2 crossings, only 10 trains plus Amtrak go by.
1 3 PEOPLE INCLUDING THE DRIVER WERE INJURED.
2 THE DRIVER WAS INJURED.
