Main Street Railroad Crossing

This is the Main Street Crossing located on the edge of Downtown Anderson,IN. The crossing is in the 1500 block of Main Street. Located at this crossing is the former Big Four Depot. It's now restored and currently houses a dance studio (and they take great care of it).
Main Street was once a two-way street. Many streets leading in and out of downtown have been transformed from two-way to one-way or vice-versa. This helps explain the common use of an additional crossing signal on the far side of the tracks. It simply wasn't removed when the street was to one-way traffic out of fear of wrong-way drivers.

Crossing information:
FRA#: 538949P
Milepost: 247.5
Track owned by: CSX
Track #: 2
Average daily train count: 39 (track 1 and 2 combined)
Average train speed: 25 - 30
Number of car/train collisions: 10 since 1976
Number of deaths: 1
Number of injuries: 5

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• rail
• road
• crossing
• train
• track
• CSX
• Conrail
• engine
• signal
• flasher
• gate
• bell
• boxcar
• gondola
• main
• street
• Anderson
• Indiana

[sirkrunch]

Funny all the local PD in the first couple videos, and then on the longshot we see the motorcyclist run the crossing. You'd think they'd try to put an extension and some extra counterweights on the lone gate, or consider adding a mech to the opposite approach signal.

[wisecrac99]

@sirkrunch, yeah. The Anderson Police Department is just a few blocks away. I always ondered why the didn't completely cover this crossing with the gate or add one on the left. With the buildings you can't see until you are in harms way.

[Trainman11185]

@Mrnissanleaf a Nathan K5HL

[Mrnissanleaf]

what type of horn was on the first train?

[crazyrailfan152]

nice depot also love the conrail engine i think conrail had the best horn ever

[DavidRailroadXing]

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