Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 5-31-20*

Signal on the far left: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with Leotek EV Series LEDs.
Signal on the near left: 2 pairs of WRRS 8 inch lights and 1 pair of Federal Signal 8 inch lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights and a General Signals Type 1 electronic bell.

This was the third crossing I caught Q573 at. I would've recorded it at the crossing to the north of this one, as I quite like how the 8 inch signal there looks, but the sun had already moved to this side of the tracks by the time Q573 got close, so I moved on down to this crossing.

This crossing itself is also pretty nice. It appears that the signals here were originally installed by the L&N in the 1970s, though in the late-1990s, the signals on the far side were both replaced by CSX. Then, in 2018, a car struck the bell-less mast signal here, and CSX had to replace it as a result. As such, there's a nice little variety of equipment at this crossing, which, IMHO, is quite nice to see. I especially like the off-side Federal Signal cantilever on this side, which has managed to survive all these years almost completely unchanged. I also love the GS Type 1 here, since they're easily my favorite e-bell.
All in all, it's a great crossing that I'm glad I was finally able to record almost four years after I first saw it.

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*originally recorded on 12-4-23*

Signal on the far left: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with Leotek EV Series LEDs.
Signal on the near left: 3 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with Leotek EV Series LEDs.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights and a General Signals Type 1 electronic bell.

After M209 came through, I continued on up to Franklin to get this crossing rerecorded as well. As I got here, I heard M209 meeting M575 at Salmons, so I went ahead and got set-up. Just a few minutes later, CSX M575 came south through the crossing with an ES44AH pulling on the head-end and an AC44CW and an ET44AH working as the train's DPUs.

Sometime within the past year or so, the old Federal Signal cantilever here, the last one along the line, was sadly replaced. Interestingly, CSX chose to reuse another Federal Signal cantilever here, with this one I believe having been one of the old signals at Cherry Street in Franklin. Due to this signal replacement, however, this crossing sadly lost its 8 inch lights, but thankfully still retains its neat set-up. Dunno why the cantilever was replaced and why CSX chose to reuse another older cantilever here, but I'm glad they did the latter at least. As a result, the Mainline Sub still retains a classic Federal Signal cantilever along it, which I'm rather thankful for. It'd be a shame if the L&N's original mainline had lost all of the style of this style of cantilever, given that the L&N loved to use these back in the day (and they are sadly slowly disappearing from ex-L&N trackage).

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