Greenfield Ave. with Safetran EM gates and 8" L.E.D.s

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Greenfield Ave. with Safetran EM gates and 8" L.E.D.s

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I've wanted to get this Milwaukee crossing in action since I moved here in 2010. It's tough, since it only gets this one little local train which runs north to do its work on weekdays, then south later in the day to go back to the UP yard, but it's hard to predict when. Case in point, the train snuck up on me and I had to rush to set up, missing the activation and gate descent.

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Is it hard to find crossings with 8" LED installs?
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There aren't many of them. Now usually when they do L.E.D. upgrades they do away with the 8" lights altogether and put up new 12" x 24"s, that is if they don't replace the entire signal which seems to be commonplace as well.

Even some signals that have had the 8" L.E.D.s put in have since been ripped out and had entirely new signals with 12" x 24" L.E.D.s installed in their place.

However, there are still a handful around southeast Wisconsin. See this adjacent thread for another example:

http://www.rxrsignals.net/Phpbb3/viewto ... =18&t=2475
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AndyWS wrote:There aren't many of them. Now usually when they do L.E.D. upgrades they do away with the 8" lights altogether and put up new 12" x 24"s, that is if they don't replace the entire signal which seems to be commonplace as well.

Even some signals that have had the 8" L.E.D.s put in have since been ripped out and had entirely new signals with 12" x 24" L.E.D.s installed in their place.

However, there are still a handful around southeast Wisconsin. See this adjacent thread for another example:

http://www.rxrsignals.net/Phpbb3/viewto ... =18&t=2475
Thanks for the video and the feedback.I relly appriciate it. :)
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