Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

Here's a pretty bad sounding Safetran mechanical bell:

A rather flat Safetran mechanical bell can be heard at a few points in this video:

Some pretty flat WABCO teardrops over in Italy.

NathanFromEngland wrote:Some pretty flat WABCO teardrops over in Italy.

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Looks like this WCH bell is having a issue between its level of speed and the gong itself.

NathanFromEngland wrote:Looks like this WCH bell is having a issue between its level of speed and the gong itself.

An early CSX signal there as well.

Sounds like the "ding rate" significantly increased before the bell shut off.

ToledoRailfan wrote:Sounds like the "ding rate" significantly increased before the bell shut off.

It appears to be due to the gate mechs as the other bell does the same thing. If you skip to 2:20 in the video, the bell is ringing rather fast before the gates start to lower.

Very scary sounding General Signals E-bell

One of these mechanical bells at this Dutch crossing is extremely flat.

Unrelated, but it appears this EBA E-bell has died, despite replacing another mechanical bell four years prior.