Western Railroad Discussion > Seattle, WA Holgate Crossing Work Day 12

It's Friday, day 12 and we're done. The barriers and signs should be lifted sometime Saturday. On Tuesday the 24th, look for us across from Associated Grocers at South Seattle installing a yard turnout.

Links to previous updates of the project:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1257249

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1257867

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1258428

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1259019

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1260767

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1261474

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1262293

1) Looking down the westbound lanes just after striping. What a big difference that small detail made.

2) Building the crossing sign for eastbound traffic. Six tracks including the dead end Amtrak track. Amtrak switches using a track protected by lights just out of view to the left. I wonder how westbound drivers will react when they all end up stopping on five new (dead) tracks.

3) Setting the sign in the hole. Per standard plan, there's four feet of the post below grade!

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4) Welding the deflector plates to the ends of the crossing pads.

5) Deflector plates welded and screwed to the ties.

6) The finished product.

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Thanks for all the great images. Hope to see more.