Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 11-29-17*

Signal on the left: 1 pair of Modern Industries 12x24 inch lights, 1.5 pairs of Modern Industries 12x20 inch lights with Dialight Ball LEDs, and 1 Modern Industries 12x20 inch light with a WCH 2nd Generation LED.
Signal on the right: 1 Modern Industries 12x24 inch light, 1 WCH 12x24 inch light, 2 pairs of Modern Industries 12x20 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, and a General Signals Type 1 electronic bell.

This is another really nice crossing along the line. It features a pair of older gateless WCH extendable cantilever signals at it, with the original overhead lights on them (though upgraded to LED years ago). The MI mast lights are replacements for the original mast lights (likely MI 12x20 inch lights), though one of them was later replaced with a newer WCH 12x24 inch light (likely after getting hit by a car). The crossing also used to feature a WCH mechanical bell, but when I looked at this crossing on Google Maps back around 2014-ish, I had noticed it was replaced with a General Signals electronic bell, likely a GS Type 2. However, when the crossing activated, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the new e-bell was actually a General Signals Type 1! The left-hand signal also used to have all WCH 2nd Generation LEDs in the overhead lights, but it appears that sometime recently CSX decided to replace most of them with Dialight Ball LEDs. The road used to be called "Depot Street", but it appears that sometime within the past few years, Chilton County dropped the street names from their roads that had county route numbers (read: pretty much all of them that they maintained, and even some that they don't), with the relay case having the street name on it updated to reflect this change. Also, Verbena, AL, is the only town here in the US with the name of "Verbena".

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/R-Z/Verbena/CR59/

No major changes here as of 4-23-23:


The overhead lights have had some of the LEDs fall into the lenses since my last video though, and the remaining WCH 2nd Gen on the far signal appears to have had a bunch of dirt or something build-up in the lens as well.

No changes here as of 5-16-24: