Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 8-5-20*

Signal on the left: 4 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights, a General Signals Type 3 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG gate lights.
Signal on the far right: 3 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights, a Safetran Type 3 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG gate lights.
Signal on the near right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights.

After catching 320 in Natural Bridge, I raced on down to this crossing in Lynn to catch it at this pretty decent crossing, with a slightly unusual set-up. The set-up here is the result of the crossing being located right between a 4-way intersection (Heck Street and East Main Street) and a 3-way intersection (Heck Street and West Main Street). The gated signal on the right has its gate arm blocking traffic on West Main Street, which makes sense as the road appears to be set-up to direct most traffic onto Heck Street and across the tracks.
Although it might be a bit hard to see, the right-hand gated signal also has the side lights tilted at an angle, strangely enough, and they've been like that for a few years now as they were like this when I visited in 2018.
The crossing itself is your pretty standard mid to late-2000s NS install, though at some point between 2015 and 2018, the bell on the left-hand signal was replaced with a GS Type 3. The gateless signal here also still retains an old white ENS sign, which is quite neat to see, IMHO.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/G-Q/Lynn/Heck/

No major changes here as of 3-5-26, though NS did fix the crooked side lights here and the Safetran Type 3 e-bell is sadly now dead: