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Date: 3/21/22.

Camera: Sony Handycam FDR-AX53.

Locomotive consist:
CN 3082 (error made in video) - GE ET44AC - CN Noodle w/ website
CN 5783 - EMD SD75I - CN Noodle

This crossing is located on the CN New Westminster Subdivision.

Bell sequence: Bells ring until gates rise.

Horn setting: Quiet zone.

Signal on the left: A Safetran base, a Siemens gate mechanism with RECO LED gate lights, 1.5 pairs of Safetran (Hawker Siddeley) 12x20" lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, 1 Safetran 12x20" light with a GE Uniform Look LED, 1 pair of Safetran 12x24" lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs and a low-tone Siemens electronic bell.

Far median signal: A Safetran base, a Siemens gate mechanism with RECO LED gate lights and 2 pairs of Safetran (Hawker Siddeley) 12x20" lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs.

Near median signal: A Griswold base, a Siemens gate mechanism with RECO LED gate lights and 2 pairs of Safetran (Hawker Siddeley) 12x20" lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs.

Signal on the right: A Safetran base, a Siemens gate mechanism with RECO LED gate lights, 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20" lights with Dialight Ball LEDs and a General Signals Type 2 electronic bell.

After catching a few trains in Burnaby on the CN New West Sub that day, I decided to head over to this area to try and catch VIA #2 (The Canadian). To my surprise, CN Q124 was still in "the cut" at Still Creek, so I decided to get a good video of this crossing with that train. After a few minutes have passed, CN Q124 left Still Creek to make way for VIA #2, creeping through this busy crossing with an ET44AC GEVO leading an SD75I for power.

This crossing is nice to have re-recorded, and a pretty decent setup overall. It appears this crossing was originally a two-lane street with a pair of Griswold EMs installed by the Great Northern around the 1950s. Changes wouldn't occur until the 1970s, when it appears the Burlington Northern replaced the original Griswold Type B 8" lights with Safetran 12x20s. Around the same time (or maybe later on), the original wishbone gates were replaced, however I can't get any confirmation as to what time frame they were replaced. Sometime in the 1990s though, the road appears to have been widened to four lanes as what you see today, and much of the crossing was upgraded. The Griswold EM signal on the right-hand side was kept, but the one that once rested on the left was replaced with three new Safetran gated signals from the BN. More changes happened in the early 2000s, when the SkyTrain Millennium line was built. The gate mast on the left was extended by BNSF to accommodate an extra pair of lights, being Safetran 12x24" General Signals LED lights. Along with that, the three gate masts installed in the 1990s had their original Safetran gate mechs replaced with US&S Model 95 gate mechs. The left-hand gate mast appears to also had its original mechanical bell (either a Safetran or WCH) replaced with a General Signals Type 2 E-Bell. More major changes would happen later on too, but after CN began leasing this portion of the line from BNSF in 2006. First off in late 2009, remaining Griswold EM signal dating back to the Great Northern era was replaced with the gate mast that you see. However, it originally had a US&S Model 95 gate mech. Between 2009 and 2011, the left-hand gate mast had one of its original 1990s-era Safetran 12x20s replaced with a reused 1970s Safetran 12x20" light, possibly due to it being struck by a big vehicle. Major changes would happen again in 2015, when CN upgraded the rest of the lights to LED, being GE Uniform Look LEDs of course, the left-hand gate mast had its lone 1970s era Safetran 12x20" light replaced with a brand new Safetran 12x20" GE Uniform Look LED light, and the General Signals LED inserts on the same signal's overhead lights were replaced with GE Uniform Look LEDs as well. All of the US&S Model 95 gate mechs were replaced with the current Siemens gate mechs (with one signal being due to accommodating a pedestrian gate), and the left-hand gate mast's GS Type 2 E-Bell was replaced with the current Siemens E-Bell as well. Another major change to this crossing happened, but it occurred a few days after this video was recorded. The right-hand gate mast was replaced yet again with a brand new one, so an extra pair of lights can be accommodated. Stay tuned for yet another video of this crossing in the future that hasn't been filmed yet as of the posting of this video lol.

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