Mill Road, Decatur, AL

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Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, a General Signals Type 2 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.

The crossing is also somewhat nice as well, as it's an early 1990s CSX install that's had an LED upgrade, and unfortunately also had the WCH mechanical bell replaced with a General Signals Type 2. The crossing is also right next to the defect detector at Milepost 313.5, as you can hear at the end of the second video after the 2:15 mark (which is why it was included).

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*originally recorded on 8-29-21*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, a General Signals Type 2 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, RECO LED gate lights, and an NEG LED gate light.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, a Safetran gate mechanism, RECO LED gate lights, and an NEG LED gate light.

After catching Q524 at Kayo Road, I continued back up towards Decatur, where I saw a southbound was lined at Oakworth Holdout. As such, I decided to turn around and set-up at this crossing, as I hadn't recorded it in a while. The southbound train here turned-out to be a mixed freight, which I believe was Q521, which had a YN2 AC44CW leading a YN3 ES40DC! Definitely another one of my favorite catches on this day, it was nice seeing multiple YN2 units leading.

As you can see, not too much has changed at this crossing since I last recorded it. However, it appears that the tip gate lights on both signals died sometime after my last recording and were replaced with NEG LEDs. The old L&N-era relay case here was also replaced with a newer one on the opposite corner of the crossing at some point, not entirely sure what happened to the old one that necessitated it. Other than that though, no major changes appear to have occurred to this crossing.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/A-F/Decatur/Mill/

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*originally recorded on 3-24-23*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, a Safetran gate mechanism, RECO LED gate lights, and an NEG LED gate light.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, a General Signals Type 2 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, a RECO LED gate light, and NEG LED gate lights.

After I026 came through, I continued on south to this crossing for the second northbound. Soon after, I was able to get my fourth train of the day: CSX M514 with a pair of ES40DCs leading a Dash-8 and a cut of intermodal on the head-end and a third ES40DC working as the mid-train DPU.

Since I was last here, another gate light on the closer signal was replaced with an NEG LED gate light. No other changes have occurred here since then though.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/A-F/Decatur/Mill/

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*originally recorded on 7-21-23*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, a Safetran gate mechanism, RECO gate lights, and an NEG LED gate light.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, a General Signals Type 2 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.

After catching the two NS local freights in Belle Mina, I went down to Hartselle and checked-up on Tabernacle Road, seeing that it still wasn't done at the time. After that I continued up towards Decatur, where I saw CSX had a southbound lined, so I went down to this crossing and set-up. After a bit of waiting, I was able to get my third train of the day: CSX X647 with an ES44AH leading an ES40DC on the head-end and another ES44AH working as the mid-train DPU.

Nothing too major has changed here since I last filmed this crossing. However, it seems that the closer signal had its gate arm replaced and now has a full set of NEG LED gate lights as a result. Otherwise, no major changes have occurred here.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/A-F/Decatur/Mill/

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No changes to this crossing as of 7-18-24:

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Still largely the same as of 9-2-24, though the bell here has died as of this video: