MP:  A355.050*

 

 

Updated March 6, 2021

 

Total Accidents:   0
Crossing DOT #:  960236R
TOTAL DAILY TRAINS:   22   (AS OF 2018)

 

Page created by: freebrickproductions

 

This crossing is located on the NS Memphis District East End.

 

*When I wrote this page, I had guessed that this would be the milepost as here, as there wasn't an inventory report for the crossing yet. Turns out I was right!

 

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Overviews of the crossing.
The first signal.

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It's a Safetran cantilever with a RACO splice box.
The emergency information.
The mast lights are bagged Safetran 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs.

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The overhead lights are more bagged Safetran 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs.
Looks like some lights or a crossbuck will go here.
This signal has a General Signals Type 3 electronic bell!

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A Safetran base.
A Siemens gate mechanism.
The second signal.

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It has another Safetran base.
Another Siemens gate mechanism.
The lights are another pair of bagged Safetran 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs.

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The third signal.
Yet another Safetran base.
Yet another Siemens gate mechanism.

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Are still another pair of bagged Safetran 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs.
The fourth signal.
It's another Safetran cantilever with a RACO splice box.

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The emergency information.
This signal has more bagged Safetran 12x20 inch lights for the mast lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs.
Looks like some lights or a crossbuck will also go here.

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The overhead lights are also still more bagged Safetran 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs.
Another General Signals Type 3 electronic bell on this signal!
A fourth Safetran base.

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A fourth Safetran gate mechanism.
The relay case.
Track views.

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The future power connection.
A mile post near the crossing.

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A return trip to the crossing on 4-7-17 catches NS 265 flying through the crossing with a BNSF SD70ACe leading!

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The lights on the signals here now work, even though they can't be seen through the bags! The bells also ring, confirming that they're GS Type 3s. However, the gate mechanisms aren't hooked-up yet.

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Overviews of the signals.

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Close-ups of all four signals at the crossing.

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The relay case now gets power, as indicated by the light on the side of it.

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Track view looking east towards Greenbrier Road in Greenbrier, AL.
Track view looking west towards Mooresville Road in Belle Mina, AL.

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A second return trip on 5-19-17 shows some more progress has been made on the signals, as the lights are now unbagged and gates have been installed.
The first signal.

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A DOT tag.
The lights, which all have GE Uniform Look LEDs.

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The new gate arm and RECO LEDs.
The second signal.
More GE Uniform Look LEDs.

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The new gate arm and RECO LEDs.
The third signal.
Even more GE Uniform Look LEDs.

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The new gate arm and RECO LEDs.
The fourth signal.

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A DOT tag.
Still more GE Uniform Look LEDs.

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The new gate arm and RECO LEDs.
The crossing activates!

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NS 265 comes flying through with a BNSF AC44CW leading!

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The train passes...

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...and the gates rise.

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A third return trip on 7-13-17 shows that the grade has been paved.

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The crossing activates once again!

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A loaded coal train comes through with two BNSF ES44ACs leading.

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An NS SD70ACe and an NS ES44AC work on the DPU.

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The gates rise once the train has cleared the crossing.

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A fourth return trip on 10-4-17 shows that the crossing is now open!

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The crossing activates yet again!

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Managed to catch these lights mid-flash.
The train passes and the signals shut-off.

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A fifth and final return trip on 5-6-20 finds that the crossing was closed, less than 3 years after it was opened!

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The remains of the signals, which were later moved to the City of Huntsville Traffic Engineering Department's lot, where they still were, last I saw.

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The emergency information.
One of the General Signals Type 3 e-bells.
The relay case.

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The former foundations of the signals.
A block signal and some relay cases at the former crossing as well.

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Track views.
A new signal gantry stands near the crossing.

 

 

 

 

 

This crossing is current (as of the time of writing this in June of 2018) the newest one in Huntsville, having only been opened in the fall of 2017!

It was certainly fun getting to watch this crossing getting built from (near) start to finish.

Of course, less than three years later, the crossing was closed and then replacd with a new overpass, due to the construction of a new rail-yard at the crossing.

 

Pictures 1-42 were taken on 11-17-16.

Pictures 43-60 and the first video were taken on 4-7-17.

Pictures 61-110 and the second video were taken on 5-19-17.

Pictures 111-142 and the third video were taken on 7-13-17.

Pictures 143-162 and the fourth video were taken on 10-4-17.

Pictures 163-178 were taken on 5-6-20.