Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

shota's railfan wrote:Here is some a crossing(s) with a flat safetran bell






Not sure if this is a flat safetran bell.


Flat griswold bell that sounds like a WCH Mechanical Bell

First two bells don't sound flat at all, bell in the third video is dead.

NathanFromEngland wrote:

ZachL wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:Here's a pair of very flat Safetran bells:

Wow, wonder how they both sound like that.

It's probably the rate of speed of the bell.

The speed of the bell shouldn't really have an impact like that, though.

VIdeo by user: Chuttely
These are FLAT WCH mechanical bells

shota's railfan wrote:

VIdeo by user: Chuttely
These are FLAT WCH mechanical bells

That was posted awhile back.

A flat Hybrid bell can be seen at 1:59 in this video, and another can be heard at 4:27 (though I don't know if it's the same bell):

Not a flat sounding bell, but an unusual Japanese railroad crossing speaker.

One of the bells at the second crossing in this video sounds pretty rough (you can hear it the best starting at about 5:15 in the video). The first crossing also features an alarm that's having issues.

At least one of the bells at 8:22 in this video sounds a bit flat (another view of the crossing can be seen later in the video, starting at about 9:34, along with a good close-up view at 12:55):

The Safetran(?) mechanical bell heard towards the beginning of this video sounds rather flat:

Speaking of Safetran bells, here's a Safetran Hybrid bell which has quite a bit of trouble ringing: