railfan87 wrote:Is the LA&L back on days now? I caught 420 and 425 today crossing West Henrietta Road headed back to Genesee Junction from M&F lumber around 12:30 pm. The train had to stop at the traffic light governing the crossing....never seen that before. A train stops for cars for once!Luther wrote:
There are simply too many obstacles, width of road, electric and phone lines, massive amounts of road traffic, less frequent use of that crossing that it makes more sense to stop traffic by way of traffic light and then grant the train permission to cross. If this were the main line and not the branch some other mechanism/a way to get functional gates installed would have been used.
A good assumption. There was a concern when Rt 15 was rebuilt many years ago, that the disrupting of trains was really messing with traffic flows. Traffic Lights were installed on this branch and the bridge over the CSX line was installed to help traffic flows. The lights are triggered by controls that the train crew activates. Red shows up the tracks until the lights are activiated. People blow these off just as bad or worse than they do standard railroad crossing lights and gates. I want to say mid to late 1970's this was done, but someone else, might be able to give a better time line than this. I do know that it was before Rt390 was complete, we used to travel to Strong hospital from Wellsville doing Ambulance transfers and remember going by Conesus Lake and Henrietta. Got to CSX line one night and had to stop for a train while doing CPR in the back.
~Greg Graves
