3rd Avenue, Nashville, TN

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*originally recorded on 2-13-21*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with Leotek EV Series LEDs, a Siemens gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2.5 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with Leotek EV Series LEDs, 1 pair of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with Leotek EV Series LEDs, 1 Harmon 12x24 inch light with a Leotek EV Series LED, a Safetran Type 2 electronic bell, a Siemens gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.

After catching Y198 a second time, I started to head back over to a crossing I was at earlier, when I heard an approaching train on the scanner that was too close for me to beat it to, so I turned around and raced back over to this crossing for it. Like with the intermodal train earlier, I was just barely able to get set-up in time for this southbound intermodal train, which had an ES44AH leading an ES40DC on the head-end, and a CM44AH rebuild working as the mid-train DPU.

This crossing is a pretty decent one, and was also the only crossing I recorded on this day without a mechanical bell. The signals here appear to have been installed by CSX in the 1990s, but for whatever reason, both of the masts had double-sided Harmon bases. Like 2nd Avenue as well, it appears these also replaced some older gated signals, and had the WCH gate mechs from the older signals re-used onto the current ones here. Also, at some point, one of the mast lights on the cantilever was struck and replaced with a re-used Harmon 12x24 inch light.
However, the crossing likely remained unchanged until sometime between 2007 and 2009, when the WCH mechanical bell here was replaced with the current Safetran Type 2 e-bell. Then, between 2012 and 2014, the base on the left-hand signal was replaced with the current double-sided Safetran one, followed by both gate mechs being replaced with the current Siemens ones in 2016. Finally, the most recent change here was the upgrade to LED, which appears to have occured in about 2018. Since then, no major changes have occured here.
This crossing is certainly a bit of a neat one-way set-up, especially since it's weird that this road is one-way. If you look at this crossing on Google Maps, you'll quickly notice that it's also only one-way through the crossing. At literally the first intersection on both sides of the crossing, the road goes back to 2-way, so I'm not sure why Nashville only made it one-way through the crossing. A mystery for another day, I suppose.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Tennessee/G-Q/Nashville/3/