Railroad Crossing | Range Road 43, Wabamun, AB

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Date: 4/21/25.

Camera: Sony Handycam FDR-AX53.

Locomotive consist:
CN 2817 - GE ES44AC - CN Noodle w/ website
IC 2716 - GE C44-9W - CN Noodle w/ website

This crossing is located on the CN Edson Subdivision.

Bell sequence: Bell rings through whole activation.

Horn setting: Quiet zone.

Signal on the left: A Safetran base, a Safetran gate mechanism with RECO LED gate lights and 3 pairs of Safetran 12x24" lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs.

Signal on the right: A Safetran base, a Safetran gate mechanism with RECO LED gate lights, 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24" lights with Harmon Fading LEDs and a low tone Siemens electronic bell.

Once I caught a westbound intermodal train in Kapasiwin, there was a break in the train traffic along this line for over an hour. So, I checked out the crossings west of Wabamun before I headed over to this crossing to catch the next train. I didn't have to wait long as I heard an eastbound train west of Wabamun on my scanner. Shortly after, the crossing activated, and this eastbound CN tanker train came rolling through with an ES44AC GEVO leading and a Dash 9 trailing. I later chatted with a nearby signal maintainer who was evaluating the crossing as can be heard towards the end of the video.

This crossing is a pretty nice one, featuring a pair of older Safetran signals installed sometime in the mid-1990s. Originally, the Safetran 12x24" lights were incandescent, as well as the original bell was a Safetran mechanical bell. In the early-mid 2010s, the crossing was modernized with the current bell and the GE Uniform Look LED retrofit. It is pretty nice to see these mid-1990s Safetran signals stil sporting their original lights with the black painted backgrounds, as not much of these early Canadian 12" light installs still remain these days. These were some of the first installs with 12" lights on CN, which their Canadian adoption of what would soon be the standard size of lights came around CN's privatization in 1995.

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