UP 1522 Florin Flyer Local | Mather Field Rd. Railroad Crossing, Rancho Cordova CA

Mar 27, 2026 9:05am The Flyer had made their way off the spur track and reconnected with their parked train cars to proceed on east continuing their work down the line. I ran back to this side as a late light rail train that was at the end of the switching video before this held me up and therefore, I skipped a light rail which is the one stopped in the station at the beginning. I ended up with a result I didn't like. Union Pacific Railroad Florin Flyer Local freight train on the UP Placerville Branch passes through the Mather Field Road railroad crossing in Rancho Cordova, California. I dislike how everything in this era goes wrong in the 2020s more often than in any decade I've seen. The amount of BS and bad things that happen nowadays and annoyances are so high and too often. I also dislike the amount of times something goes wrong immediately to crush something good in this era. Also, The mindset of people nowadays is sad when it comes to common sense. Railfanning wise, I miss the days where it didn't seem like every railfanning adventure can't go without something going wrong or problems developing like in these 2020s decade. I remember the 2010s as more enjoyable and even the later half of the 2010s there were problems developing but not all the time. But the 2020s seem to exist to have problems... UP 1522 UP 1466 - LRR54 "Florin Flyer Local" Crossing Info City: Rancho Cordova, California Line Owner(s): Sacramento Placerville Transportation Corridor Joint Powers Authority (SPTC-JPA) Crossing User(s): SACRT, UPRR Crossing Owner: Sacramento Regional Transit (SACRT) Bell Sequence: Ring through whole activation *Quiet Zone* Turn Lane Signal Bell: GS Type 2 E-Bell Lights: 2 pairs of 12x24 inch Harmon Fading LEDs/Harmon Lights Junction Box: Harmon Gate Lights: NEG Clear Alstom-Aurora Gate LEDs Mechanism/Counterweight Arms: WCH Base: L&W Install: SACRT Early 2000s Variant B, Installed 2004 & knocked reinstalled 2021 Traffic Island Shoulder Signal - Harmon Cantilever Lights: 6 pairs of 12x24 inch Harmon Fading LEDs/Harmon Lights Junction Boxes: Harmon - Gated Mast Bell: GS Type 2 E-Bell Lights: 1 pair of 12x24 inch Harmon Fading LEDs/Harmon Lights Junction Box: Harmon Gate Lights: NEG Clear Alstom-Aurora Gate LEDs Mechanism/Counterweight Arms: WCH Base: WCH Install: SACRT Early 2000s Variant B, Installed 2004 Left Gate-less Pedestrian Signal Bell: GS Type 2 E-Bell Lights: 2 pairs of 12x24 inch Harmon Fading LEDs/Harmon Lights Junction Box: Harmon Base: Harmon Install: SACRT Early 2000s Variant B, Installed 2004 Left Shoulder Signal Bell: GS Type 2 E-Bell Lights: 2 pairs of 12x24 inch Safetran Fading LEDs/Safetran Lights (1 by Siemens & GE) Junction Box: Safetran Gate Lights; NEG Clear Alstom-Aurora Gate LEDs Mechanism/Counterweight Arms: WCH Base: Safetran Install: SACRT Late 1990s, installed in 1998 Median Signal - Safetran 1990s Cantilever Bell: Non Functional Safetran Mechanical Bell Lights: 4 pairs of 12x24 inch Safetran Fading LEDs/Safetran Lights Junction Boxes: Safetran - Gated Mast Bell: WCH E-Bell "Type 2" Gate Lights; NEG Clear Alstom-Aurora Gate LEDs Mechanism/Counterweight Arms: WCH Base: Safetran Whole Install: SACRT Late 1990s, Installed 1998 Right Gate-less Pedestrian Signal Bell: GS Type 2 E-Bell Lights: 2 pairs of 12x24 inch Harmon Fading LEDs/Harmon Lights Junction Box: Harmon Base: Harmon Install: SACRT Early 2000s Variant B, Installed 2004 Yellow Flasher Advance Folsom Blvd Signal (Not In View) Lights: 1 pair of 12 inch Yellow Safetran Fading LEDs Junction Box: Harmon Base: Harmon Install: SACRT early 2000s yellow flasher, installed 2004, knocked reinstalled 2024 This crossing also has two no right turn blank out signals. This crossing owned by SACRT is an mixed install with the gated signals on the southern side being SACRT Late 1990s signal installs with bell, a couple of lights one on cantilever and one on shoulder, gate, gate lights, mechanisms, and counterweight arms changed from the original install equipment. The two gateless signals and two gated signals near the intersection are an SACRT Early 2000s Type B signal install with gate, gate lights, mechanisms, counterweight arms, and a base change for the turn lane. The yellow flasher is a SACRT early 2000s install. Camera Sony FX30 Cinema Line + Tamron 17mm - 300mm Lens Canon EOS R50 V + Sigma Contemporary 16-300mm F3.5-6.7 DC OS