Harper Road, Lithia Springs, GA

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*originally recorded on 3-14-25*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, a Safetran Type 3 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, RECO LED gate lights, and an NEG LED gate light.

After catching 346, I started trying to go west, only to find-out that 28J was approaching. As such, I decided to head back over to this crossing in Lithia Springs to wait for it. After a bit of waiting, I was able to catch my third train of the day: NS 28J with a UP SD70ACe leading an NS SD70ACe, an NS AC44C6M, and a UP AC44CW for power. I later found-out that bhamrails was the conductor on this train.

This crossing is another nice one, featuring a nice modernized late-70s SOU install at it. It appears that in the late-2000s/early-2010s, the lights here were replaced with the current Safetran 12x20s, which were incandescent at the time, and the bell was replaced by the current Safetran Type 3 e-bell. In 2015/2016, NS upgraded the lights here to LED, though they were initially GE Uniform Look LEDs. Then, sometime between 2016 and 2019, the LEDs were replaced with the current GE Dotted LEDs. No idea why this was done, as it was definitely a strange upgrade.

https://www.rxrsignals.com/Georgia/G-Q/ ... gs/Harper/