Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 5-24-20*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Federal Signal 8 inch lights, a General Signals Type 2 electronic bell, a Transport Products Corp. gate mech, and NEG LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 3.5 pairs of Federal Signal 8 inch lights, 1 WCH 8 inch light, a Transport Products Corp. gate mech, and NEG LED gate lights.
This crossing is located in a quiet zone. Trains do not blow their horns at this crossing.

After catching the local freight, I went back to Osburn Yard where I saw CSX Q574 was getting ready to leave. I then came out to this crossing to wait on them, though they stopped at Frankfort Avenue for a while, for some reason. Eventually though, Q574 came on through with an ES44AH leading an ES40DC, a GP40-2, and a Road Slug on the head-end and an ET44AH working as the mid-train DPU.

This crossing is a very nice one, and was quite a high-priority crossing for me, as it still features a pair of early Transport Products Corp. gate mechs! Not many of these early TPC gate mechs are left, with St. Louis area being the only other part of the country to have any number of them, AFAIK.
It appears that in the 1970s, the L&N went through and replaced most of the lights and gateless masts along the LCL Subdivision with Federal Signal 8 inch lights, such as with this crossing, though one of the 8 inch lights was eventually replaced with a newer one from WCH (I'm guessing the old one was damaged in some way), and the bell here (I'm guessing either the original WRRS bell or a Federal Signal bell) was replaced in the early 2000s with the current GS Type 2.
All in all, this is quite a nice crossing and I'm glad to have been able to record it.