UP6155 East in DeKalb, IL 3/15/24

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Locomotives: UP6155, UP8794
Train Symbol: Unknown
Sub Division: UP Geneva Sub
Grade Crossing: Route 23&38
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Got Tired of no one getting a decent video of the new signals here so I did. Yea its a bit dark but hey at least there is a video now. I am facing north on route 23/4th St in this video.
Grade Crossing Equipment:
Route 23 close (Southern) signal:
Base: Single sided Siemens
Gate Mech: Siemens S60
Lights: 4 Safetran Frames with GE Dotted LED's
Bell: GS type 3 E Bell side mounted(Could be from a different crossing that was taken down)
Gate Lights: NEG Clear LED Gate Lights
Junction Box: Safetran
Route 23 far (Northern) signal:
Base: Single sided Siemens
Gate Mech: Siemens S60
Lights: 4 Safetran Frames with GE Dotted LED's
Bell: GS type 3 E Bell side mounted(Could be from the old northern signal as it had a GS type 3 installed in 2020)
Gate Lights: NEG Clear LED Gate Lights
Junction Box: Safetran
Route 38 western signals:
Base: Single sided Siemens
Gate Mech: Siemens S60
Lights: 8 Safetran Frames with 4 GE Dotted LED's mast section and 4 Electro Tech LEDs on cantilever head.
Bell: WCH Type 4 on cantilever (Replaced a WCH Type 1.5 way back which replaced a Safetran M Bell)
Gate Lights: NEG Clear LED Gate Lights
Junction Boxes: Safetran
Cantilever: 1970's Safetran 5 section cantilever without ladder
Route 38 eastern signals:
Base: Single sided Siemens
Gate Mech: Siemens S60
Lights: 8 Safetran Frames with 4 GE Dotted LED's mast section and 4 GE Dotted LEDs on cantilever head.
Bell: WCH Type 3 on cantilever (Replaced a WCH type 1.5 which was the first E Bell Union Pacific Ever installed in DeKalb. The WCH E Bell replaced a Safetran M Bell way back)
Gate Lights: NEG Clear LED Gate Lights
Junction Boxes: Safetran
Cantilever: 1970's Safetran 5 section cantilever without ladder
Route 23 Southern Pedestrian Gate:
Base: Single sided WCH
Gate Mech: WCH Style 3.5
More Info:
Around 20 accidents have happened here according to the FRA with one or two recent ones. As far as I know this is the only grade crossing in the state of Illinois with two state highways intersecting at one place with railroad tracks going through.
This crossing also has the annoying wayside horn system. It was installed in the summer of 2007.
There are four wayside horns at this crossing with the other two way street crossings in town having two each.
The signals were replaced here on March 3rd and March 4th of 2023. All other crossing still retain there old signals but a few of them have been failing or have been knocked down. I'm assuming Siemens has not delivered the signals yet to UP as the UP has slowed down signal replacements a lot and its so bad that a gate failed at 1st St in DeKalb and they got an Invensys rail S40 from their spare equipment. Also some of the frames on the signal closest to me in the video already have bent up frames. This is not Union Pacific's fault though.