Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 12-28-18*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Alstom 12x20 inch lights with Rebel Railway Supply Co. LEDs, a Safetran Type 2 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and Progress Rail(?) LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 1.5 pairs of Alstom 12x20 inch lights with Rebel Railway Supply Co. LEDs, an Alstom 12x20 inch light with a Patco LED, a Safetran Type 2 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and Progress Rail(?) LED gate lights.

Now for one of the more unique crossings on the NERR Mainline, this crossing features lights and LEDs not seen anywhere else on the NERR. I'm not entirely sure when these were installed, though likely in the mid-2000s, and certainly by December of 2007 according to the earliest street view image available here. The weird thing about the crossing is how it features Alstom light-heads and Rebel Railway Supply Co. LEDs, the latter of which I've only seen at one other crossing (located on the TSRR in Columbia, TN), also in Alstom 12x20s. I'm guessing that the NERR was trialling these lights and LEDs when they put up these signals. Interestingly enough, when one of the original LEDs (likely) died, RSI chose to match it with a another model of LED that had a similar design. Rebel Railway Supply Co. LEDs feature the same LED array as a Patco LED or an RSI LED, though they lack any logos cast into the lens (like an RSI LED) or have many markings on the breadboard (like a Patco LED), aside from the company name being printed to said breadboard. It appears that these LEDs might still be made too, though as Rebel Railway Supply Co.'s website seems to be a bit broken (last I had checked, I couldn't get many, if any, images to load on it), I'm not entirely sure. The signals here are also pretty short, especially for a modern-ish install like this. In fact, the height seems to be about how tall many older gated signals (from the 1970s and before) were. As you can see in the background, this crossing is at the entrance to a cemetery as well.

Sorry about the water drops that got on the lens.

This crossing is in a quiet zone. Trains are not allowed to blow their horns at this crossing.

*originally recorded on 8-25-23*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights with General Signals LEDs, a General Signals Type 3 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights with General Signals LEDs, a Safetran Type 2 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
This crossing is in a quiet zone. Trains do not blow their horns at this crossing.

After I saw the outbound Star train, I went over to this crossing to catch its second inbound run to Nashville. After a few minutes of waiting, I was able to see it coming back through on its way to Nashville.

This crossing has had quite the overhaul since I last recorded it back in 2018. Sometime between 2018 and 2021, a few changes occurred to this crossing. The most noticeable of these changes was that the lights here were all replaced with Safetran 12x20 inch lights with General Signals LEDs. Due to how these light-heads are spec'd, they almost look like they came from a BNSF line somewhere. At about this same time, due to a walking trail being built through here and going across this crossing, both gate arms were replaced with much longer ones that cover the whole width of both the road and the trail, rare for crossings here in the US with only two gated signals. At about this time, the closer signal had its gate lights replaced with the current NEG LEDs. Then, sometime after 2021, a couple more changes occurred to this crossing, both to the farther signal. That signal had its original Safetran Type 2 e-bell replaced with the current GS Type 3, and the gate lights on it were replaced with more NEG LED gate lights.
Even with these upgrades, this is still a neat little crossing, and I'm glad to have been able to re-record it, especially since General Signals LEDs are rare to find in my part of the southeast.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Tennessee/G-Q ... /Private4/