Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 10-30-18*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Federal Signal 12x20 inch lights with Electro-tech LEDs, a General Signals Type 2 electronic bell, a Federal Signal gate mechanism, and Alstom LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Federal Signal 12x20 inch lights with Electro-tech LEDs, a General Signals Type 2 electronic bell, a WCH gate mechanism, and Alstom LED gate lights.

This is one of the slightly more interesting crossings with e-bells along the line, mostly due to the mixture of equipment here. These would've originally been all Federal Signal signals, but at one point, both bells and one of the gate mechs were replaced, likely at the same time. Personally, while the right-hand signal almost looks like a typical modernized signal, I do think it looks nice (I also like the look of older signals that have had modern equipment installed on them, they just have a neat look to them, IMHO). Fortunately, the other Federal Signal gate mechanism has survived, but based on the grinding noise it made shortly after raising, I think it might be seeing replacement sometime within the near/near-ish future. There are also four crossings along this line with General Signals e-bells, but this is the only one of them that I recorded. The echo off of the horn is also rather cool here.