Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

Branch-line crossing:
Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Federal Signal 8 inch lights, a Federal Signal mechanical bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Federal Signal 8 inch lights.
Main-line crossing:
Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Federal Signal 8 inch lights.
Signal on the right: 1 pair of Federal Signal 8 inch lights, 1 pair of Modern Industries 8 inch lights, a Federal Signal mechanical bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.

This is the last crossing on the CSX S&NA North Sub. to have 8 inch lights still. Kinda interesting considering the fact that the rest of the crossings have mostly had the incandescent lights upgraded to LED. This crossing also has a pair of mechanical bells at it, the only one like it on the S&NA North Sub! All of the other four crossings with mechanical bells on them only have one bell. I like how CSX has left most of the old L&N equipment here though. The only things they're replaced have been the gates, some of the gate lights, and the gate mechanisms, as this crossing used to have GRS gate mechanisms at it, which can be seen in the link below.
This is also the farthest north you'll find a public crossing on the line as well.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Tennessee/Bre ... lson_Pike/

*originally recorded on 9-26-20*

Signal on the far left: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, a Federal Signal mechanical bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.
Signal on the far right: 1 pair of WCH 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs and 1 pair of WCH 12x24 inch lights with Leotek EV Series LEDs.
Signal on the near left: 1.5 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs and 1WCH 12x24 inch light with a Leotek EV Series LED.
Signal on the near right: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, a Federal Signal mechanical bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, a RECO gate light, and RECO LED gate lights.

This was the last train Ethan and I caught on September 26th. We met-up here so Ethan's dad could pick him up and I could head home (as I had work the following morning), but while we were here, CSX Q515 pulled up and stopped a bit north of the crossing, so we set-up and waited. After a bit of waiting, Q515 began to move and came through the crossing with an ES44AH leading an SD40-3.

As you can see, in the four years since I last visited this crossing, there's been a few changes to the signals here, the most major (and obvious) one being the LED upgrade to this crossing that happened in either late-2017 or early-2018, IIRC. Ethan had gotten a video showing the new LEDs later on in 2018, but sometime after 2019, both of the outer gated signals had two tracks signs added to the gateless masts just below the ENS signs. At some point, the closer gated signal also had two of the gate lights upgraded to LED, but one of the incandescent ones still remains, which is pretty nice to see. Thankfully, both Federal Signal mechanical bells are still hanging on here, which is quite nice to see. Hopefully they'll be around for a good while longer.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Tennessee/A-F ... lson_Pike/

No changes here as of 6-29-24, thankfully:

No changes here as of 7-10-24 either: