(4/28/24) railfanning the Zooline Railroad @ Saint Louis Zoo - St. Louis, MO

[@jayo1212]

I don't like how the crossing signals stop before the train has cleared the crossing...

[@chasesrailwaylinesrr6447]

It seems that either the gates go up too early or too late

[@Highgear145]

I didn't see the green electric engine...Im guessing it was still on the charger

[@davidng2336]

Or maybe it wasn’t running that day

[@MichaelWolk-hx1zv]

They only bring it out on very busy days where they need 5 trains

[@Highgear145]

@@MichaelWolk-hx1zv So basically it's still just a backup...Why not use it full time since the idea of having electric is to save the environment? One of the old gas engines should be a backup 🤷

[@MichaelWolk-hx1zv]

@@Highgear145 I am not sure they might change up the order but when I was doing the engineer for a day program they said when it gets really busy they pull out a 5 train and when I was there the fifth train was the electric on

[@davidng2336]

@@Highgear145 the electric engine replaced engine 100, now assigned exclusively to MOW service. From what I heard 100 had a bunch of issues which resulted in that engine getting displaced instead of the Daniel Boone.

[@tpopsbabies]

Did they put new bells on the crossings?

[@joshuadominictoling5310]

This is different than Amtrak.

[@MichaelWolk-hx1zv]

Fun fact: I have driven two trains on the zoo line railroad I did engineer for a day

[@Robbie-b8f]

Oh wow do you get to go in the maintenance building?

[@MichaelWolk-hx1zv]

@@Robbie-b8f yes but we did not stay there long because we didn’t want to disturb there work