Jan 10, 2024 1:06pm & 1:32pm
This crossing I wanted to film fir a while but was a little too late as one of the SP era EM signals was replaced here not due to being hit but was replaced as the location for the northern signal was relocated closer to the active track and instead of moving the EM, they installed a new signal behind it and just reused its lights and gate from the EM signal onto the new signals mast sort of a small crossing upgrade and left the other EM signal but a light bulb went dead in it. This crossing is one if the few crossings left with an EM signal in Northern California.
Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad shortline local freight train does a poke switching move and then eventually passes through the North Filbert Street railroad crossing on the ST&E Pickle Spur/US Intec Line in Stockton, California with a new signal with reused lights and gate on the far side.
ST&E OMLX 1050
Crossing Info
City: Stockton, CA
Crossing Owner: ST&E
Crossing User: ST&E
Bell Sequence: Ring till gates start rising.
Right Signal
Bell: GS Type 2 E-Bell
Lights: 2 pairs of 12x24 inch Safetran Lights by Hawker Siddley
Junction Box: Safetran
Gate Lights: RECO Gate LEDs
Mechanism Pedastol/Counterweight Arms: Griswold
Install: SP 1950s
Left Signal
Bell: GS Type 3 E-Bell
Lights: 2 pairs of 12x24 inch Safetran Lights by Hawker Siddley
Junction Box: Safetran
Gate Lights: RECO Gate LEDs
Mechanism/Counterweight Arms: Siemens
Base: Siemens
Install: ST&E Early to Mid 2020s, Installed between 2023 - 2024
This crossing owned by the ST&E is an mixed install with the close signal being an SP 1950s signal with its bell, lights, junction box, gate, and gate lights changed from its original equipment from install. The far signal is an ST&E early to mid 2020s signal install with reused lights and gate.
Camera
Sony Handycam FDR-AX53
Sony Cybershot RX10 IV