Chasing ELS 400 Stiles Junction to Howard 4/13/2008

[subroc12]

Hey there guys. The truck that crosses the railroad tracks in the beginning is a Wisconsin DNR forest firefighting truck. If you look it has its red lights on when going over. He was going to a fire when the lights came down.

[bryantfamily]

those cross bucks at 0:59 - 2:27 should have signals and maybe gates too. Why are there only cross bucks?

[HighIronofWisconsin]

It's a lightly used road. No sense spending the money for signals at a country road with light traffic crossing a branch line with light train traffic. It's a driver's responsibility to stop (as indicated by the signs next to the crossbucks), look, listen and live.

[bryantfamily]

Well thanks for letting me know because it seemed to me that the road had a reasonable amount of traffic instead of being lightly used, thats good to know since otherwise it would rather be unsafe.

[tfoster09]

Bunch of idiots running the crossing!!! In the 1st scene, what is the cop noise when the truck is running the crossing?

[HighIronofWisconsin]

That was the siren on the truck. It was sounding it by way of excuse to run the crossing.

[BudmanPackfan]

City of Green Bay Police like to do that too when they don't want to sit at a red light late at night. nasty habit of theirs, have seen it many many times!

[JR7582]

Nice video! I like the shot at 4:37!

[HighIronofWisconsin]

Thanks!

[DL2045]

what was with the workers on the back?

[HighIronofWisconsin]

The conductor and sometimes the brakeman get off to line the switch on the connecting track from the ELS to the CN, then ride the back for the last few miles to the yard so they can re-line the yard switch for the main after the train gets through.