Bell on a concrete post with a bit of metal pipe, a couple of bolts and some wires

[AndyWS]

McIntosh St. in Wausau, WI. On the ex-Milwaukee Road Valley Sub, later Soo Line/Wisconsin Central LTD/CN/now Watco's Fox Valley & Lake Superior (FOXY) Railroad. One in a row of several crossings with simple gateless mast signal setups, all with 12"x 24" LEDs but with a surprisingly large proportion of mechanical bells remaining. CN was pretty aggressive about installing e-bells in the 21 years they owned this part of the former WCL system, even on lightly used branch lines.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ssMsEyFUJDMau6Wv6

FOXY now owns and operates everything from the Wausau Yard northward to the end of the line at Tomahawk (it used to go as far as Star Lake in far northern WI, with some logging spurs extending into Michigan's UP, cut back to Woodruff in the late 1940s), also including the stub of ex-C&NW trackage remaining to serve industries out to the west edge of Wausau, with a spur up the west bank of the river as well.

CN retains Wausau south to New Lisbon, where the line joins the CPKC Tomah Subdivision (also ex-Milwaukee Road); although there is no regular service between the southernmost customer at Necedah and New Lisbon.

[freebrickproductions]

That's definitely an unusual install, and it seems to have been like that for a long, long time. I'm guessin' it may have originally been mounted to an older relay case there?

That being said though, the bell-only crossing with a WCH mechanical bell in Winchester, VA, had a small metal pipe underneath it that the bell was mounted to, so I wouldn't be too surprised if that's just what was needed to mount a bell to a concrete post. The neighboring bell-only crossing just had the Safetran Type 3 mounted to the mount the metal pipe would be slipped around, it seems.