Hite Avenue, Louisville, KY

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*originally recorded on 5-24-20*

Signal on the left: 1 pair of Modern Industries 8 inch lights, 1 Federal Signal 8 inch light, 1 WCH 8 inch light, a Transport Products Corp. gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.
Signal on the far right: 2 pairs of WRRS 8 inch lights.
Signal on the near right: 1.5 pairs of WRRS 8 inch lights, 1 WCH 8 inch light, a Federal Signal mechanical bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.
This crossing is located in a quiet zone. Trains do not blow their horns at this crossing.

After catching the hi-rail truck, I continued documenting crossings along the LCL Sub. After a while, I figured Q575 was getting close, so I went back to this crossing to try and catch it. After a while of waiting, a train did come through. However, it wasn't Q575, but rather Q142 with CSX's first ST70AH leading and an ES44AH working as the mid-train DPU!

This crossing is quite a nice one. On the far side, the crossing retains an early TPC gate mech, along with the near signal having a Federal Signal mechanical bell! The bell-less masts here all have wire entrances at the top of them, though the gate mast on the far side has some kind of large black one I haven't seen anywhere else. The closer gate mast had one as well, but it disappeared some years ago according to street view.
It appears that originally, this crossing was an early L&N TPC install, but then in the late-60s/early-70s, the gateless masts here were replaced along with the bell. Then, later on in the 70s, the left-hand signal had a few of its lights replaced, along with one on the right-hand signal, likely as they were struck. Then, sometime between 2007 and 2011, the closer signal had the gate mech replaced on it (along with what I believe was a wire entrance on it disappearing in the same timeframe). Since then, no major changes have occured here, for which I'm quite glad as these are some very cool & classic signals at this crossing!
US 60 can be seen on the other side of the crossing.