Signal on the left: 1 pair of Safetran 8 inch lights, 1 pair of Harmon 12x20 inch lights, 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights, and a Safetran mechanical bell.
Signal on the right: 1 pair of Safetran 8 inch lights, 1 pair of Harmon 12x20 inch lights, 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights, and a Safetran mechanical bell.
Beech Street signal: 2 pairs of Safetran 8 inch lights and a WCH electronic bell.
The signal on the right actually used to have a WCH electronic bell back in 2010, and can be seen on the first crossing in owensri2's video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T5OyayGVfo
Also, the overhead lights flash against each other for some reason. Ain't never seen that before.
Re: McFarland Avenue, Rossville, GA
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 1:39 pm
by freebrickproductions
*originally recorded on 9-16-23*
Signal on the left: 1 pair of WCH 12x24 inch lights with GE Dotted LEDs, 1 pair of Harmon 12x20 inch lights with GE Dotted LEDs, 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights with GE Dotted LEDs, and a Safetran mechanical bell.
Signal on the far right: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with GE Dotted LEDs and a WCH Type 3 electronic bell.
Signal on the near right: 1 pair of WCH 12x24 inch lights with GE Dotted LEDs, 1 pair of Harmon 12x20 inch lights with GE Dotted LEDs, 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights with GE Dotted LEDs, and a Safetran mechanical bell.
This was the third crossing I chased this train to. Just north of the crossing, they paused for a bit to pose with an old car that another TVRM member was driving, to give people a bit of a photo opportunity, before continuing south.
Rossville has always been a popular spot for railfans to shoot the Summerville Steam Specials, thanks to usually good lighting and the old factory seen trackside on the left, and today was definitely no exception. There was a massive swarm of railfans here, quite nearly everyone chasing it on this day if I had to guess, all waiting to get a shot of the train here.
Since I last filmed this crossing back in 2016, a few changes have occurred to it. The first, which I believe had occurred back in 2017, was that all of the 8 inch mast lights here were sadly replaced with the current WCH 12x24 inch LED lights, along with most of the other 8 inch lights along the CCKY. The overhead lights were left incandescent, but then, sometime between May of 2022 and May of 2023, the CCKY upgraded the overhead lights here to LED as well. Thankfully, the old 70s SOU gateless signals here still remain, along with both Safetran mechanical bells. Hopefully these will remain around for many more years to come.