Ridgeway Drive, Trion, GA

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*originally recorded on 9-16-23*

Signal on the left: 1.5 pairs of Modern Industries 12x24 inch lights with LED bulbs, 1 Safetran 12x24 inch light with an LED bulb, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 6 pairs of Modern Industries 12x24 inch lights with LED bulbs, a Modern Industries mechanical bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and WCH gate lights.

This was the seventh crossing I chased this train to, and it's another nice one. The signals here were installed in the early-1980s by the late-SOU/early-NS, and have remained fairly untouched since. At some point, I believe in the 2000s, the front-left light on the far signal here was replaced with the current Safetran 12x24. Then, presumably at some point more recently, the lights here were upgraded to LED with LED bulbs, but, thankfully, the signals have remained largely unchanged otherwise. I honestly don't know if the Safetran 12x24 here has an LED bulb in it, given that I didn't see it lit, but, given that the rest of the lights here are LED, I strongly suspect it has one as well.
Thankfully, this crossing still retains its original Modern Industries mechanical bell, especially since the late-SOU/early-NS didn't install very many of these and very few still exist on the ex-SOU trackage down here in the southeast. Both signals also still retain older diagonally-striped gate arms and with the closer signal having a set of incandescent WCH gate lights, which are great to see as well. Hopefully this crossing remains unchanged for many more years to come as well, but, either way, I'm certainly glad to have filmed it.
Here I was also able to meet-up with my friend DeeDeeTeeArts and his partner, which was rather nice.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Georgia/R-Z/Trion/Ridgeway/

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Got a video here from the other side on 9-30-23:


Unsurprisingly, the Safetran light here features an LED bulb in it as well.