Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

Signal on the left: 5 pairs of Modern Industries lights and a dead WCH mechanical bell.
Signal on the right: 4 pairs of Modern Industries 12x24 inch lights, 1 pair of Federal Signal 8 inch lights, and a dying Modern Industries mechanical bell.

The MI bell here sounds worse than how it sounded when I heard it last.

This crossing is on the border between Madison and Huntsville.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/Hunts ... ll_Triana/

Nothing much has changed here, though the cantilever with the MI bell has had the lights realigned:

No changes to this crossing as of 3-13-19:

*originally recorded on 9-13-23*

Signal on the left: 4 pairs of Modern Industries 12x24 inch lights with LED bulbs, 1 pair of Federal Signal 8 inch lights, and a dying Modern Industries mechanical bell.
Signal on the right: 5 pairs of Modern Industries 12x24 inch lights with LED bulbs and a General Signals Type 3 electronic bell.

After I caught A04 at Madison Boulevard, I was able to chase them on over to this crossing to get it rerecorded as well. Since I was last here, the HMCAA did a few upgrades to this crossing, back in early-2022. Probably the biggest, yet generally least-noticeable (when off) upgrade here was the fact that all of the 12x24 inch lights here were upgraded to LED using LED bulbs inside the heads, which is certainly a bit unusual. Strangely, they didn't do the same for the one pair of Federal Signal 8 inch lights here, though those are also basically used to let train crews know the signals here are active. At about this same time, it appears, the HMCAA also did a bit of work to the bells. The closer signal had its long-dead WCH mechanical bell replaced with the current General Signals Type 3 e-bell, while the far signal had its dying MI mechanical bell repainted and rotated, though the MI bell still sounds a bit rough. Glad to see it's still hanging on though, however, as it's the closest MI bell to me these days, save for the one in my room of course.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/G-Q/H ... ll_Triana/

No major changes here as of 1-28-24, though the MI bell is now dangling from the top of the cantilever it was mounted to and not working as a result:

The bell was still dangling here on 2-25-24:


It has since been fixed.