Calctsieu river / I-10 railroad bridge

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by esc

Im new to the Westlake area and was curious as to how to get through the I-10 railroad bridge on the Calcasieu river. Is there a certain VHF channel, phone number, etc needed or do you just pull up to it and they open it?

Bridges use channel 13. They can typically see you but 3 long horn blasts also signals that you want to pass through. Being new, expect long waits at the bridge. If a train is anywhere near that zip code you will have to wait until it passes. So it feels like they don't see you but in reality they are just waiting for a far away train to pass.