Western Railroad Discussion > There is a train at the end of the driveway again...

How cool would it be to have a crossing at the end of your driveway with your own personal gates!

I would guess if you were to move into one of these houses you must like trains.  Unless your realtor scammed you...lol.  "You are moving to the KC area?  Yes, I have a great listing for you and you can purchase before you even look at the house!"
This double mainline has on average a train every 20 minutes.  Just last year they put in the gates for this person’s driveway.  Not sure how long it has been a quite zone, but can you imagine having horns blaring every 20 minutes.
I think I might even get tired of that, but now all is safe and quite except for the rumbling of the ground.

Video is in Shawnee, KS. 6-2-18 just before a late afternoon storm rolled in.

Enjoy the View!
Doc  
 

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at about the 2:00 mark I see that one of those homes even has its very own mosquito breeding pond!
HH

Doesn’t any railrund out there true wheel flat spots anymore? I can handle the rumble but the think think think was crazy!

Posted from iPhone

Excellent.
My vote for Video of the Day.

These are pretty high-end McMansions too. I enjoy living about 1/2 mile from the tracks and hearing horns in the day and night. The most I have seen/heard is 9 in one day. But a train every 20 minutes might get old....

TJY

I noticed that there was no horn sounded at the controlled crossing. Perhaps not required or perhaps
$$$$ spoke to keep it quiet. Seems like an obvious potential disaster given time and circumstance.

File sound footage maybe. 
 

HH Wrote:
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> at about the 2:00 mark I see that one of those
> homes even has its very own mosquito breeding
> pond!
> HH

That's a free range mosquito ranch! 

Great stuff Doc...love all the KC area "different perspective" videos.  Please keep 'em coming!
   Doug

CPRR Wrote:
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> Doesn’t any railrund out there true wheel flat
> spots anymore? I can handle the rumble but the
> think think think was crazy!
>
> Posted from iPhone

Of course we do. It's called setting the air. Eventually, it works... in a "round-about way".

Posted from Android

462pacific Wrote:
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> I noticed that there was no horn sounded at the
> controlled crossing. Perhaps not required or
> perhaps
> $$$$ spoke to keep it quiet. Seems like an obvious
> potential disaster given time and circumstance.

private crossing exemption  i imagine

Nice drone video , did you mic.up at the crossing ?

Posted from Android

Thanks for the video...

icancmp193 Wrote:
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> These are pretty high-end McMansions too. I enjoy
> living about 1/2 mile from the tracks and hearing
> horns in the day and night. The most I have
> seen/heard is 9 in one day. But a train every 20
> minutes might get old....
>
> TJY

I hear ya.  I live about a 1/2 mile from the KCS main.  It is nice to hear the rumble from a few miles out in each direction even at night.

Doc

jjones47272 Wrote:
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> Nice drone video , did you mic.up at the crossing
> ?
>
> Posted from Android

Thanks!  Yes, I was about 100 yards from the crossing.  I had to delay the sound just a little bit for the train to match the video, but thought it turned out pretty good.

Doc

lajrwc1 Wrote:
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> Great stuff Doc...love all the KC area "different
> perspective" videos.  Please keep 'em coming!
>    Doug

Thanks so much!  I love the comments and compliments so thanks again, and I will for sure keep them coming!

Thank you! Very, very enjoyable video. It should be the video of the day!

Folks living in the affluent areas in the suburbs mange to arrange for funding of silent crossings, particularly Johnson County Kansas. However, as soon as you go across the county line into Wyandotte county the crossings are, for the most part, not silent. It also seems to depend on the railroad...BNSF is very willing to accommodate requests to silence crossings, other railroads not as much. Here in the Indianapolis area (CXS territory) I do not know of a single instance of a silent crossing. Also, our infrastructure here in Indiana is definitely third worldish, not likely to change any time soon, so the whistles continue to be heard here in Indiana.

Great video and great drone work as well.  Very impresive