Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

A Special Event has appeared! What will happen this time?

This month is Light Emitting Diode Month! Only LED signals are allowed in here. 8" 12X20's 12X24's you name it they have to be LED. Incandescant lighted crossings will be eliminated on sight! There's also a catch! You have to have one of the lights ON! SO they both can't be off!


YES!

YES!

NO!

NO!

Now you know the rules and the yes's and No's. So Post your LED shots!

i dont have many good LED photos, but i do like to submit, so here is an UP grain train passing a crossing by the Springfield, IL Amtrak station

Here's my entry... this is the Trinity Railway Express crossing MacArthur Blvd. in Irving, Texas. This is kind of a weird crossing since it is underneath the Irving Blvd. (TX 356) underpass. These are brand-new Safetran LED signals. Photo taken 4/4/2009. I'll be submitting the rest of the photos I took at this crossing to Mike's website next month.

LEDs were rare to get in S. FLA, until....

They upgraded West 8th Avenue Crossing in Hialeah to WCH 12x24 LEDs!

Should you require proof that this is an LED light, see the SECOND PORTION in this video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOnM8QiyrxI

The "101-19" occupied the first two minutes and was pre upgrade.

Look at the difference an LED upgrade made in the 101-05 portion!

Video taken Jan 19 and April 5, 2009 respectively.

Photo taken April 5.

Josh wrote:Here's my entry... this is the Trinity Railway Express crossing MacArthur Blvd. in Irving, Texas. This is kind of a weird crossing since it is underneath the Irving Blvd. (TX 356) underpass.

DAMN the safetran/raco m-bell is no longer there from street view
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UT ... 0588235293

TRAINMANKIGHT wrote:

Josh wrote:Here's my entry... this is the Trinity Railway Express crossing MacArthur Blvd. in Irving, Texas. This is kind of a weird crossing since it is underneath the Irving Blvd. (TX 356) underpass.

DAMN the safetran/raco m-bell is no longer there from street view
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UT ... 0588235293

They are doing a lot of construction along that section of the TRE. They have elevated the line and grade-separated some of the crossings west of MacArthur such as Story Road, Belt Line Road, and Briery Road (too bad I didn't get some photos of the old Raco cantilever signals that were there per street view!). At the remaining crossings that don't already have 4-quad gate systems they were installing new signals. I think that's what they were doing at MacArthur, since there were new signals (without gates yet) on the "wrong" sides of the road. Kind of unnecessary in my opinion since there is already a large median there. Most of the signals they are replacing, the only difference between the old signals and the new are incandescants vs. LEDs and m-bells vs. e-bells. I don't know why they couldn't have left the old signals alone and just added additional signals for the quadrant gates. I'll be submitting the complete set of photos from this and some other TRE crossings to Mike's website in about 3 weeks.

4-quad crossing on Andrew Road in Sherman, IL:

Jeez, 4 bells. Seems like a bit much for that not-so-big crossing...

the Sherman crossing is there beacuse Amtrak plans on running 100mph down that line, but most amtraks dont go over 45 on that line.

UP in Rochelle.