Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

So, in this topic, you are gonna give a list of what bells you have seen:

Here is mine, for a example:

Mechanical:
Safetran
WCH 2nd Gen
RACO/Griswold
Safetran Hybrid
FS
WRRS

Electronic:
ASC
NEG
Safetran Type 3/Invensys Rail/Siemens
GS Type 2
GS Type 3
WCH

* = Never seen active

Mechanical:
-RRS
-WRRS
-WRRS Mini
-Federal Signal
-WCH 1st Gen
-WCH 2nd Gen
-WCH 3rd Gen*
-Magnetic Flagman
-Griswold
-RACO
-Safetran
-Safetran Hybrid
-US&S Teardrop 3rd Gen
-US&S
-Modern Industries
-WABCO*

Electronic:
-Early GS
-GS Type 1
-GS Type 2
-GS Type 3
-WCH Type 1
-WCH Type 1.5
-WCH Type 2
-WCH Type 3
-WCH Type 4
-Safetran Type 1
-Safetran Type 2
-Safetran Type 3 High Tone
-Safetran Type 3 Low Tone
-Siemens High Tone
-Siemens Low Tone
-GE
-US&S
-ASC Type 1
-ASC Type 3
-NEG
-NOVAX DS100 Speaker (does this count?)

Since I am brand new (like I joined a few weeks ago) to this community, I will have to guess what bells I could have seen before I joined the railfan community. Most of the bells in this list were not caught in action.

Mechanical:
Safetran
WCH 2nd Gen
WRRS
Griswold
*At one point, I was a five-minute walk away from a US&S Teardrop, but this was before I joined the community, so I never knew about it until after I joined. RIP me.

Electronic:
NEG
GS Types 1 and 2
WCH Types 1.5, 2, and 3
ASC
Safetran Types 1 and 2
US&S Electronic

*There could be more that I'm not aware of.

--Mechanical--
WC Hayes (Both Generations)
Safetran (Both Generations)
Raco
Modern Industries
US&S "Teardrop" (All Generations)
RRS Co.
WRRS
WRRS Mini Bell

--Electronic--
General Signals (All Types)
WC Hayes (Generations 1.5 and 2)

Mechanical bells:
WRRS
WRRS mini*
WRRS 1203*
Griswold
RACO*
Safetran (1st and 2nd* generations)
Modern Industries*
US&S
US&S Teardrop (2nd and 3rd Generations, IIRC)
Federal Signal*
WCH (1st, 2nd*, and 2.5th Generations)
WABCO
RRS

Electronic bells:
General Signals (Types 1*, 2*, and 3)
WCH (Types 1.5, 2*, 3, and 4)
US&S
ASC
Safetran (Types 1, 2, and 3)
NEG
A shop-built e-bell

*Bell I own

List of crossing bells I've recorded in action so far.
Mechanical
Safetran (Both 1st gen and 2nd gen)
Wch (Both 1st gen and 2nd gen as well)
Wrrs (Over on the Pixley Spur which isn't used as much)
Griswold (the first ever bell I got in my life)

Electronic
General signals (type 1, 2, and 3)
Wch (not familiar with the different types of wch e bells)
And lastly, NEG.

My apologies if I haven't been active on the forum as much. Been busy with finishing up school as well as working at my new job.

Mine = only seen one because I own it

M-Bells!
WCH both gens
WRRS
WRRS motor and 1203
WRRS mini
RRS
BZ *mine*
US&S normal
MI
WABCO
Safetran
RACO
Griswold
LS Brach *mine*
US&S teardrop all gens
FS
FS mini (my friend owns one)
B&B (not sure if this counts)

Hybrids!
Safetran
Westinghouse

E-Bells!
GS all types INCLUDING PROTO
ASC both designs
Safetran all types
Siemens high and low pitch
NEG (I hate these)
WCH all types
RSI (didn’t get to record it yet :( hopefully soon)
GE
Harmon Box bell (saw one of these on a trip to Dallas)
Invensys (Basically a safetran type 3)

Yeah I’ve basically seen them all.