Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

cabman701 wrote:Ford has had a Memorial Day add running locally (South Florida) for about the last 10 days or so. An active crossing is featured for about 3 seconds in two different scenes. Have no clue where this is unfortunately...

The add is currently on their website at http://www.southfloridaford.com/ ...but I'm sure it will only be there another few days until the sale ends.

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I saw that ad up here in the Tampa area as well.

By the way, did you move to south Florida? I thought you were living in St. Petersburg.

Yes, I am in St Petersburg still. It will be a year next week actually. I know we are not technically south Florida, but we are south of the panhandle / Jacksonville area... which most people consider to be the North.

Was watching Miami Vice, and obviously some Signals on N. Miami Ave Show Up! Heres a pic.

Here is the Crossing today: https://www.google.com/maps/@25.780761, ... e0!6m1!1e1

I don't know how long it will be before this gets taken down nor if anyone posted this show clip before but here is Episode 1, Season 2 of Ghost Whisperer:

Sounds like WRRS or WCH. What is the engine here?

Yessiree. A Teardrop Bell recording for a British crossing. Midsomer Murders Wpisode 10 of Season 8:

Not quite mainstream media, and not much footage, but it's a few all-too-quick seconds of an A-frame gate with the 1585 WRRS gate lanterns.

New movie Paper Town has a crossing signal in it

In the documentary about the music industry in Muscle Shoals, AL, they show a clip with a crossing in it in the middle of the country side, and then later, there is a clip with an intermodal train with BNSF power going through the Montgomery Avenue crossing in Sheffield with and they also show the signal with the WCH mechanical bell in one of the shots.

Don't know if anybody watches the show Scorpion, but some signals made it on the episode that aired Monday night. They are definitely crossing signals heads, but used in a different way.

The episode centers around a runaway subway train. In this scene, the main character has saved himself from a horrible crash by somehow looping a cable around these lights, just seconds before the train crashes (I know... it seems a bit far fetched). I'm not sure what look (for the signals) the producers were going for... I am guessing to make these look something like wayside signals.

Anyway... here are some stills I pulled off of CBS.com:

Those heads definitely appear to be Safetran 12x20 inch heads, unless they were some almost-exact clones that WCH made for a while.