Union Pacific Grainer Switching At Pollock Siding | Meadowview Rd Crossing & SACRT, Sacramento CA

Описание: Aug 6, 2024
Didn't make it in time to catch them first arriving here and should of just stayed and waited at Point Pleasant. I moved here after hearing this Union Pacific Grain Train needed to set out some cars at the Pollock Siding due to a car defect so I moved to this crossing only to hit multiple rpad wprl constructions which prevented me from arriving on time to film a proper crossing and switcjimg video and the head end so I just got these switching moved of the cars across the Meadowview Road railroad crossing on the UP Sacramento Sub in Sacramento, California and some Sacramento Regional Transit light rail trains on the SACRT Blue Line passing by arriving and departing the Meadowview Station. Also, this grain train was two trains built into one but the first section already had departed hours ago before this. They split at the South Sac Siding.

The signal system here at Pollock and the Meadowview Rd crossing has always been slow since the wayside system and crossing was updated in 2015 for the Blue Line light rail extension. Each light in and out the siding the freight train had to wait an extensive amount of time to get a light which resulted in me missing the last activation so this video really just annoyed me filming and it was hot. Then the clip where the freight train backed up the first time that I did get the activation, a truck blocked the right signal.

SACRT 209, 239

SACRT 201, ?

SACRT 202, 237

SACRT 221, 206

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Crossing Info
City: Sacramento, CA

This crossing is jointly owned by SACRT on this side and UPRR on the other side of tracks and is a quiet zone and bells ring through whole activation.

Right Shoulder Signal - UPRR
Bell: WCH E-Bell "Type 2"
Cantilever: Walpar
Lights: Mast - Two pairs of 12 inch WCH 2nd Gen/Miller Felpax LEDs retrofitted in Two pairs of 12x24 inch Safetran Lights, Overhead - Two pairs of 12 inch Electro-Tech LEDs retrofitted in Two pairs of 12x24 inch Federal Signal Lights
Junction Boxes: Safetran & WRRS
Install Type/Installed: WP 1970s, Installed Between 1974 - 1980
Gated Mast
Gate Lights: Electro-Tech Gate LEDs
Mechanism/Counterweight Arms: Safetran
Base: Safetran
Install Type/Installed: UPRR Early 2010s, Installed in 2011

Left Gate-less Signal - UPRR
Bell: Safetran Type 2 E-Bell "Early NEG"
Lights: Two pairs of 12 inch GE Pixilated Look/Dotted LEDs retrofitted in Two pairs of 12x24 inch Safetran Lights by Siemens
Junction Box: Safetran logo Siemens
Base: Safetran logo Siemens
Install Type/Installed: UPRR Mid 2010s, Installed in 2015

Left Shoulder Signal - SACRT
Bell: GS Type 2 E-Bell
Cantilever: GE/Lyndsay Rail
Lights: Four pair of 12 inch GE Uniform Look/Fading LEDs retrofitted inside Four pairs of 12x24 inch WCH Lights
Junction Boxes: WCH
Gated Mast
Lights: One pair of 12 inch General Electric Uniform Look/Fading LEDs retrofitted inside One pair of 12x24 inch Safetran Lights by Siemens
Junction Box: Safetran logo Siemens
Gate Light: NEG Gate LEDs "Alstom-Aurora Style"
Mechanism/Counterweight Arms: Siemens
Base: Siemens
Install Type/Installed: SACRT Mid 2010s, Installed in 2015

Right Gate-less Signal - SACRT
Bell: GS Type 2 E-Bell
Lights: Two pairs of 12 inch General Electric Uniform Look/Fading LEDs retrofitted inside Two pairs of 12x24 inch Safetran Lights by Siemens
Junction Box: Safetran logo Siemens
Base: Siemens
Install Type/Installed: SACRT Mid 2010s, Installed in 2015

Crossing also has two LED blank out train signs and two advanced warning signal yellow flashers for a nearby intersection behind me when traffic fills up to tracks they activate.

This crossing is a jointly owned mixed install by Sacramento Regional Transit and Union Pacific with the two closest signals being an mixed install with the shoulder cantilever being an WP 1970s signal install with its bell, lights and mast light head and junction box being the changes. Its gated mast is an UP early 2010s signal install with changes to its gate and gate lights. The close gateless signal is an UP Mid 2010s signal install. t
The two far signals being an SACRT mid 2010s signal install with its gate being the change.

Camera
Sony Handycam FDR-AX53
Sony Cybershot RX10 IV