[Filmed November 2, 2021]
This is a remaining video I have from when this crossing was malfunction last week just to have one more video to post of this crossing while it was activated by a malfunction that caused the gates to go up and down. The track here is owned by Union Pacific Railroad while the crossing signals are owned by Sacramento Regional Transit and overhead is the Bee Bridge for the SACRT Gold Line tracks for the light rail.
The street running train line here at the bottom didn't see any train activity between 2007 and 2016 where in February 2016 the track started back being used for service to the Sac Bee weekly by Union Pacific which lasted from Feb 2016 to March 2018 when the line was temporarily shut down for a construction project that lasted a year and a half to build an apartment building and rebuild part of R Street for a sidewalk which when all completed the line opened back up for trains but the Sac Bee never called for the train to come back after construction.
The finishing blow to this train line was that the pandemic forced the Sacramento Bee Newspaper Plant this line serves and only customer to go fully digital and closed down there main Newspaper Plant rendering this line out of service permanently and could also say almost abandoned since it's likely no train will use this line again. I last filmed a train here March 20, 2018 which was the last train on this line. It's kinda funny, this line had standard power for a local freight train being four axle power but the very last train that used the line was the only time they used six axle power. It was kind of like some grand finally of the line being used with large locomotives as its last run is what it was like lol.
This malfunction was caused by a waterlogged track from a storm that hit here a week prior which caused this crossing and 22nd Street Crossing to malfunction. This crossing install here is an SACRT late 1980s signal build install with changes to its bells, lights, and gates from the original install equipment in 2001. This crossing also features a normal GS Type 1 E-Bell body with an GS Prototype E-Bell chip creating the dry rough sound you here emitting from the fat signals bell.
There are also other crossings you can hear in the background adjacent to the area on other train lines which are 19th St on the SACRT Blue Line and S St on the UPRR Sacramento Sub and SACRT Blue Line activated for Blue Line light rail trains. To the left of this crossing is the SACRT Blue Line and the UPRR Sacramento Subdivision which this line turns out from. There is also a planned ACE train station to be build to the left hand side of this crossing here on the Sac Sub in the future in 2024. This is the number 2 railroad crossing on 20th Street as there's another one ahead about mile down the road on the UPRR Martinez Sub.
Crossing Info
City/State: Sacramento, California
Location: 20th Street & R Street
Horn Setting: Quiet Zone
Crossing Owner and Maintainer: Sacramento Regional Transit
Bell Sequence: Ring till gates start rising
Track Activation Sensors: Timed Off Movement And Speed Detection
Train Line: UPRR R Street Sac Bee Spur
Right Signal
Bell: General Signals Type 1 Electronic Bell
Lights: Two pairs of 12 inch Safetran Fading LEDs
Light Heads: Two pairs of 12x24 inch Safetran Lights
Brackets: Safetran
Junction Boxes: Safetran
Gate Lights: NEG Clear Gate LEDs
Counterweight Arms: Safetran
Mechanism: Safetran
Base: Safetran
Left Signal
Bell: General Signals Prototype Chip Electronic Bell
Lights: Two pairs of 12 inch Safetran Fading LEDs
Light Heads: Two pairs of 12x24 inch Safetran Lights
Brackets: Safetran
Junction Boxes: Safetran
Gate Lights: WCH Gate LEDs
Counterweight Arms: Safetran
Mechanism: Safetran
Base: Safetran
Camera
Sony Handycam FDR-AX700
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