Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

freebrickproductions wrote:

Brent wrote:I got this one in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkKNFjnSJo4

Nice find! I have to wonder what brand of bell that is there.

Looks (and sounds) like a Safetran bell.

Yeah, it's a Safetran bell.

Check out this pedestrian crossing I found in Virginia. Don't know for sure if it qualifies as a bell only, as it appears to have strobe lights on both signals.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Natur ... a4!6m1!1e1

This is the only photo I could find, but it is a pano shot so you can rotate and see both signals.

Appleton City, MO

Rockville, MO

Schell City, MO

Milton, NY https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6534741 ... 56!6m1!1e1

Also found a youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQKmgXzx5bg

This has also been posted in the US&S Teardrop bell thread.

Assumption, Illinois
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5172547 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5172552 ... 6656?hl=en

McK&H.Aust wrote:This has also been posted in the US&S Teardrop bell thread.

Assumption, Illinois
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5172547 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5172552 ... 6656?hl=en

I wonder if the other two crossings in the town were that way at one time as well or what signals they had.

SirKrunch wrote:

McK&H.Aust wrote:This has also been posted in the US&S Teardrop bell thread.

Assumption, Illinois
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5172547 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5172552 ... 6656?hl=en

I wonder if the other two crossings in the town were that way at one time as well or what signals they had.

If I had to take a guess... all 3 of those used to be wig wags at one time.

cabman701 wrote:

SirKrunch wrote:

McK&H.Aust wrote:This has also been posted in the US&S Teardrop bell thread.

Assumption, Illinois
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5172547 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5172552 ... 6656?hl=en

I wonder if the other two crossings in the town were that way at one time as well or what signals they had.

If I had to take a guess... all 3 of those used to be wig wags at one time.

If that was the case, I'd have to wonder why they'd just chop off most of the wig-wags' masts but leave the relay case and move one of the bells down. Seems like a waste of time and money to do that if they're going to downgrade the crossings to crossbucks (with a bell in one instance). I don't see anything that looks like it may have been a base or a foundation at the crossing either, so if there were any wig-wags, they'd have to be on the relay cases.
It also makes me wonder if any of the relay cases are hooked up to power and/or if that bell even works anymore.

freebrickproductions wrote:

cabman701 wrote:

SirKrunch wrote:

McK&H.Aust wrote:This has also been posted in the US&S Teardrop bell thread.

Assumption, Illinois
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5172547 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5172552 ... 6656?hl=en

I wonder if the other two crossings in the town were that way at one time as well or what signals they had.

If I had to take a guess... all 3 of those used to be wig wags at one time.

If that was the case, I'd have to wonder why they'd just chop off most of the wig-wags' masts but leave the relay case and move one of the bells down. Seems like a waste of time and money to do that if they're going to downgrade the crossings to crossbucks (with a bell in one instance). I don't see anything that looks like it may have been a base or a foundation at the crossing either, so if there were any wig-wags, they'd have to be on the relay cases.
It also makes me wonder if any of the relay cases are hooked up to power and/or if that bell even works anymore.

Yeah... I see what you mean now. Those are probably too far off the road to be remnants of a wig wag.