Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 10-13-18*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Harmon 12x24 inch lights with Harmon Dotted LEDs, a General Signals Type 2 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Harmon 12x24 inch lights with Harmon Dotted LEDs, a General Signals Type 1 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.

This crossing is one of the more interesting crossings along this part of the NERR, as it features the only known General Signals Type 1 e-bell along the entire NERR! The crossing is pretty much a pure early-2000s NERR install as well, though I wouldn't be surprised to find out the Type 2 replaced a Type 1 at some point. As the sun had already set by the time we were out here, I parked my van right behind our cameras and left it running with the brights on to light-up the crossing. Seems to have worked pretty well, though I'll have to see about re-recording this crossing sometime during the day, likely on the other side, especially since my camera had a bit of trouble focusing while recording. The bells here also ring the entire time the signals are on, which is nice.

*originally recorded on 8-25-23*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Harmon 12x24 inch lights with Harmon Dotted LEDs, a General Signals Type 3 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Harmon 12x24 inch lights with Harmon Dotted LEDs, a General Signals Type 1 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.

After getting the first outbound Star to Lebanon, I went over to this crossing and set-up for the second one. After a bit of waiting, I was able to get the second Lebanon-bound Star passing through with the pair of F40PH-3s once again.

Finally got back to this crossing to get a better video of it, as my video from 2018 here was fairly late at night. In the nearly 5 years since that video was taken, this crossing has remained largely unchanged, though has had a couple of upgrades to it. The first and more noticeable one occurred between 2018 and 2020, when RJ Corman replaced the GS Type 2 e-bell on the far side with the current GS Type 3 e-bell. Then, sometime between 2020 and the present, both gate arms here were replaced and the gate lights were all replaced with the current NEG LED ones.
Thankfully, no other major changes have occurred to this crossing since then. I'm especially glad to see the GS Type 1 is still around here and ringing, especially since this was the only known one installed on the NERR. Hopefully it continues to remain here for many more years to come, but, either way, I'm glad I got a better video of it now.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Tennessee/G-Q ... /Clemmons/