Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 6-28-19*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights, a Safetran Type 3 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights, a dead General Signals (Type 2?) electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO gate lights.

This crossing is a bit of a neat one. Originally, the crossing had a pair of gated SOU signals where the gate mechs were on seperate masts (similar to AL 33 in Courtland) with Safetran 12x24 inch lights and a single General Signals e-bell on the southern (closer) side of the crossing, that likely replaced the original Safetran mechanical bell. It appears that in the 1980s or 1990s, NS replaced the original relay case with a newer one, as the one working bell rings when the gates rise, though they appear to have kept the original timing for the gates lowering, given how they begin to descend when the signals activate. The older SOU set-up survived until sometime between 2008 and 2012, according to Google Street View, when NS replaced the older signals with the current signals, which were originally installed with a pair of General Signals e-bells (both most likely being GS Type 2s). However, between 2012 and 2017, the e-bell on the far signal died and was replaced with the current Safetran Type 3. The bell on the closer signal is also dead, likely having died much more recently, though it's been dead for at least a few months since the last time I was here, the bell didn't work then either.
The flasher relay here seems to be a bit messed-up as well, as it appears that the left-hand lights fail to light-up on occasion before it quickly switches back to the right. Also of note is the fact that the far signal uses older RECO gate lights, which don't seem to be too common on NS lines.