Finally got out to the crossing with a better camera (my flip camera) and here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIdHWusV ... ture=g-upl

I'm going to have to send you all of my pictures from the Huntsville area and two of a railroad crossing with huge gates on US 231 in Troy, AL.

I do, I just don't have my flip camera with me I that video. I use my Vivitar when I don't have my flip camera. Hopefully I will be able to get a better video soon.

I have a video of the Queensbury Dr. crossing today. Hopefully it is less shaky than the other video of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AbuaffUxzc I do have pictures of the signals in action, I will post them later though. Edit: Here is a picture of one of the signals in action, I had another pi...

Here are some more pictures of the Drake Ave. railroad crossing: The lights are WRRS 8' lights and the bell is a WRRS Mechanical bell. https://sites.google.com/site/freestylebrickproductions/_/rsrc/1349728041948/pictures-and-videos/pictures/IMAG2266.JPG?height=240&width=320 https://sites.google.com/...

PaulSP wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:I wounder what those poles with bells on them were for. Maybe old cantilever masts?

They are obviously ex Griswold Cantilevers.

I thought that they resembled griswalds.

This trackage has been out of service for quite some time, but a few signals remain on this line. http://goo.gl/maps/yXR8j There is a concrete base where a gate mast used to be next to the cantilever. You can also see where there is another signal if you spin around a bit. I wounder what those pole...

Here are some more pictures of the Drake Ave. signals. http://th07.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2012/266/c/6/drake_ave__railroad_crossing_signal_picture_7_by_2001_acsiren-d5fnt5f.jpg http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2012/266/1/0/drake_ave__railroad_crossing_signal_picture_2_by_2001_acsiren-d5fntn1...

Probably is for a railroad crossing. As far as I know, The HMCRR line does not have iny train signlas along the tracks.

Here is a picture of the rail detection circuit for either Whitesburg drive and Blanda Drive railroad crossings or Wheatherly drive railroad crossing: