Signal on the left: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights, an NEG electronic bell, an Invensys Rail gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights, an NEG electronic bell, an Invensys Rail gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.
This is a rather interesting crossing, as despite being a rather modern CSX install, it has a somewhat interesting set-up. For some reason, CSX decided to go with both bell mounts here, as one signal has the bell on the side of the mast, while the other has the bell on top of the mast!
Signal on the left: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, an NEG electronic bell, an Invensys Rail gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, an NEG electronic bell, an Invensys Rail gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
After catching Q202 in Lacon, I moved-up to this crossing just south of Falkville. Here, for my second train of the day, I caught CSX M788 heading north to Decatur with a GP38-3 pulling 19 cars. After the train passes, you can hear the defect detector next to the crossing going off.
As you can see, this crossing remains mostly unchanged since I last recorded it, with both styles of bell-mount that CSX uses still being here. However, sometime within the past few years, CSX has replaced all of the gate lights here with NEG LED gate lights, though nothing else has changed to this crossing. Like with the one down in Lacon, you can see US 31 on the far side of the crossing.
Signal on the left: 1.5 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, 1 WCH 12x24 inch light with a Leotek EV Series LED, an NEG electronic bell, an Invensys Rail gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with Leotek EV Series LEDs, an NEG electronic bell, a Siemens gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
After catching A04 at Vine Street, I hopped back on US 31 and made my way south to Falkville since I knew an M521 was coming and I knew that this crossing had received some upgrades since I last filmed it. After a little bit of waiting, I was able to catch my third train of the day: CSX M521 with a pair of ES44AHs sandwiching an ES40DC for power. It ain't super visible in this video, admittedly, but if you look closely you might be able to spot some damage to the roof of the leading locomotive's cab on the conductor's side. No idea how that occurred, TBH.
After the train passes, you can hear the defect detector just south of this crossing reading-out for it.
As you can see, this crossing had the closer signal here replaced entirely, though the bell from the old signal here was reused onto the replacement one. Not entirely sure what happened, but it appears that a truck or something got struck by a northbound train here and wiped-out the closer signal here in the process, as the relay case here also appears to have been damaged since I last filmed this crossing, as it's been twisted out of place by something. Still works just fine it appears though, and the remains of the old signal here were still laying just north of the crossing at the time as well. It appears that at about the same time the closer signal here was replaced, CSX replaced one of the LEDs on the far signal with the current Leotek EV Series LED as well. Nothing else on that signal has changed since I last recorded this crossing though.