Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 3-21-18*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights, 1 pair of Safetran 12x24 inch lights, a Safetran Type 3 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights, a Safetran Type 3 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG gate lights.

This crossing is a mostly pretty typical install for NS in the mid to late 2000s, though it appears that for whatever reason, NS didn't set the foundations for the signals properly when they were installed, so both signals are now at a lean, and appear to have been so since 2008 at least. This lean is very much apparent in person as well. The 12x24 inch lights on the far signal were added later when the two curves near the crossing on Garner Lane were smoothed out, though the old alignment of the road was kept for the people who live along it.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/Barton/Garner/

No major changes here as of yesterday:

*originally recorded on 6-24-23*

Signal on the left: 3 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights, a Safetran Type 3 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG gate lights.
Signal on the right: 3 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights, a Safetran Type 3 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG gate lights.

After catching NS 733, I'd heard there was also NS A87 running back towards Sheffield right behind it. As such, I went on over to this crossing, and, not too long after I got here, NS A87 came flying through back to Sheffield Yard with the same SD40-2 pair as before, but now running lite.

Since I last filmed this crossing, NS replaced the 24 inch backgrounds on the far signal's side lights with some 20 inch ones, making all of the lights here now 12x20s. No other notable changes appear to have occurred here, however.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/A-F/Barton/Garner/