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Floobydust
Crossings, Bridges, and Signals
In Batavia
Additional pictures can be found in my Batavia guide
Crossings, Bridges, and Signals
Between Batavia and Depew
Donahue Rd
Good grade crossing, good sight lines in both directions.
You have three tracks here, the northern track is the yard lead, which starts at the next signal to the west.
Looks like a couple of railfans caught in the act, if you ask me :-)
looking east
looking west
WB, Oct 2019
Signals between Donahue and Wortendyke Roads
No access for pictures. About a mile east of
Wortendyke Road. The lead for the Batavia yard starts just to the west
of the signals. The signals were only for the mainline tracks, altho
there might have been a dwarf signal for the yard lead.
Next signals west at Upton Rd: 1.94mi; Next signals east are at Walnut, south
Batavia: 2.14mi.
In a 2021 aerial view, we can see the single signal bridge has been replaced
by a pair of signals on a cantilever bridge for the mainline, and we've
added a full size signal for the yard lead.
Caught in the act
A local freight makes its way east, just east of Wortendyke Road.
Either getting ready to work the siding, or just finished. The
siding is shown on the map for Wortendyke Rd below.
Wortendyke Rd
Good grade crossing, good sight lines in both directions. Defect Detectors here.
There were pole mounted searchlight signals for EB traffic in the distance of the right picture, and the signal bridge on the
far side of them can just be made out on these low-res pictures I was taking back in these days (2006). :-(
looking east
looking west
Upton Rd
Good grade crossing, good sight lines in both directions.
Good shots to the west of EB trains framed by signal bridge.
Signals between Upton and Wilkinson Roads
No access for photos, but you can catch shots of EB trains, framed in
by the signal bridge, from Upton Road with a good telephoto lens.
This "distant" signal bridge was taken down in the signal upgrade, replaced by
standard colorlights adjacent to Upton Road.
Next signals west are between Ellinwood and Wilkinson Roads: 2.23mi; Next signals east are
between Wortendyke and Donahue Roads: 1.94mi.
Wilkinson Rd, NY 5
Good grade crossing, good sight lines in both directions.
Signals between Wilkinson and Ellinwood Roads
No access for photos. I'm sure this signal bridge has been replaced by now....
Next signals west at Colby Rd: 2.44mi; Next signals east are at Upton Rd:
2.23mi.
Ellinwood Rd
Good grade crossing, good sight lines in both directions.
Colby Rd
Good grade crossing, good sight lines in both directions. Signal bridge (MP 413) for signals in both directions,
looking east towards Batavia from the crossing.
Can't get much better than here!
Next signals west are west of Allegheny Rd by 1,181ft:
2.09mi, Next signals east are between Ellinwood and Wilkinson Roads: 2.44mi.
The signals at Colby Rd
Here we have a few Google Streetview shots of the new signals at Colby Rd:
Bridge between Colby and Snipery Roads
Simple bridge over a small creek, no real good access tho.
Snipery Rd
Good grade crossing, good sight lines in both directions.
Allegheny Rd, NY 77
Allegheny Road goes under the tracks. No good vantage point.
You may want to try where Maple Ave used to cross the tracks, on the south side.
Allegheny Rd Signals
About 1200 feet west of Allegheny Road, it looks like we have some signals,
missed them on my last run-thru here.
Although the detail is lacking, the aerial view from Bing still shows the old NYC signal bridge still in place,
too bad they still don't have their birds-eye view available from years ago! :-(
Next signals west are slightly west of County Line Rd: 2.47mi; Next signals east at Colby Rd: 2.09mi.
Etzold Rd
Good grade crossing, good sight lines in both directions. Probably a private grade crossing, no grade protection.
Fargo Rd, NY 4
Good grade crossing, good sight lines in both directions.
County Line Rd
Good grade crossing, good sight lines in both directions.
Looking west from County Line Road, we can just barely see the new CSX signals
that are 1,400 feet away:
Signals West of County Line Rd
EB/WB Signals and a single crossover, CSX replaced the old NYC searchlights around 2018.
As seen in the Bing street view, there used to be two sets of signal bridges
for the crossover. I'm sure there is a set of signals for EB traffic,
it is just not apparent in the low-res pictures obtainable thru either service these days.
Next signals west at Peters Corner Rd: 2.78mi; Next signals east near Allegheny Rd: 2.47mi.
Crittenden Rd, NY 1
Crittenden goes OVER the tracks here. Gives you a little variety in your shooting angles.
Peters Corners Rd, NY 347
Good grade crossing, good sight lines in both directions.
New set of CSX signals on the east side of the crossing.
Next signals west are between Town Line and Wende Roads:
2.72mi, Next signals east are east of County Line Rd: 2.78mi.
Reinhardt Rd
Either side of this former crossing looks good, with good parking on both sides,
good sight lines in both directions. The map is above.
Wende Rd, NY 113
Since I originally did this chase guide, it looks like what used to be Wende
Road is now the access road to the Wende Correctional Facility, and Wende
Road has been moved east of the prison, complete with an overpass. I
dunno if picture taking here would be advisable because of the prison! :-)
Signals West of Wende Rd - Double Crossover
Sorry, not accessible without trespassing :-(
These guys are 1.19mi west of Wende Road. The last pictures shows the
NYC signal bridge has been removed.
The next set of signals east are at Peters Corners Rd: 2.72mi; Next set of
signals west are between Pavement and Town Line Roads: 2.30mi.
Townline Rd, NY 335
Good grade crossing, good sight lines in both directions.
Ransom Rd, NY 155
Good grade crossing, good sight lines in both directions. Shoulder parking, nuttin else available.
Signals West of Ransom Rd
The new set of signals at this location, are about 1,840 feet west of the signal bridge, which no longer stands.
No access to these signals, they are about halfway between Ransom (4,046ft) and Pavement Roads (4,104ft).
The next set of signals east are between Town Line and Wende Roads: 2.30mi;
Next signals west are about a half mile west of Cemetery Rd: 2.03mi.
Pavement Rd, NY 139
Nice overpass to shoot from, good sight lines in both directions, parking off street on south side.
Cemetery Rd
Good sight lines in both directions, nice little bridge
that goes over the tracks, although everything looks rather "governmentalish",
so you may get challenged if found parking here.
Signals West of Cemetery Rd
Again, we luck out in this 2021 update with an older picture still being on
the Google server, showing both the old NYC signal bridge and the newer CSX
"Darth Vader" colorlight signals at the same time. If anyone has
pictures of the old signal bridge, and any of the other "old" signal
installations, it would be greatly appreciated if you would share them! :-)
Next signals east are between Pavement and Ransom Roads, 2.03mi; Next
signals west are at the interlocking east of Transit Rd: 2.16mi.
Central Ave, NY 57
Central Ave goes under the tracks, so, without climbing the embankment, you can't really get pictures here.....
Sheldon Ave
Tracks are straight as can be in both directions here, in addition,
you have pedestrian crossing gates to liven up your photos.
looking east
Signals, Transit Road Interlocking
If you want pictures, be prepared to do some walking. Traveling WB, we
go from 2 tracks to 4 for the ride into Buffalo and in preparation for Frontier Yard.
And finally, we are close enough to Buffalo to get some "Birds-Eye" view
aerials photos from Bing :-)
The next set of signals west are near the Depew Amtrak station: 1.46mi; Next
signals east are west of Cemetery Rd: 2.16mi.
Please visit my Depew page for railfanning west of here.....
None so far
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I love trains, and I love signals. I am not an expert. My webpages reflect what I find on the topic of the page. This is something I have fun with while
trying to help others.
Please Note: Since the main focus of my two websites is railroad signals, the railfan guides are oriented towards the signal fan being able to locate them.
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railroads on them. If you can find em, I like the National Geographic map book of the U.S..... good, clear, and concise graphics, and they do a really good job
of showing you where tourist type attractions are, although they too lack the railroads. Other notes about specific areas will show up on that page if known.
Aerial shots were taken from either Google or Bing Maps as noted. Screen captures are made
with Snagit, a Techsmith product... a great tool if you have never used it!
By the way, floobydust is a term I picked up 30-40 years ago from a National Semiconductor data book, and means miscellaneous
and/or other stuff.
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