Caption: Having made a stop prior to occupying the crossing (note the stop sign), the circuit is triggered and the lights are activated for the crossing in downtown Stayner. The conductor can be seen keeping a watchful eye for any eastbound traffic along Highway 26 as the engineer throttles up and blows a "14L". This crossing was unique in the fact the signals were mounted on opposite sides of the road than usually seen (in this case mounted on the northside of the westbound lane but protecting the eastbound traffic and vice versa on the other side)- perhaps the reasoning was something to do with the side streets coming off their respective sides of the crossing?
In about thirteen hundred feet the conductor will be down, trudging through the snow as he works to exchange the one loaded hopper in tow for the three empties on spot in the siding for F.S. Partners.