Douglas Avenue, Nashville, TN

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*originally recorded on 2-13-21*

Westbound Signal: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with Leotek EV Series LEDs, a Safetran Type 2 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.
Eastbound Signal: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with Leotek EV Series LEDs, a WCH mechanical bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.

After catching the southbound intermodal train at 3rd Avenue, I heard a northbound train approaching, so I went on up to this crossing I'd been trying for all day. The first train I caught here wound-up probably being my best catch all day: a northbound phosphate train with an ES44AH leading the Spirit of Cincinnati (and ES40DC) and another ES44AH! Bit of a shame CSX 5500 wasn't leading, but it's always nice to see another CSX Spirit unit.

After catching the northbound phosphate train here, I walked across the tracks to get back to my car. However, I looked to the south to see what the signals were reading, when I noticed another northbound train was coming up the second track! As such, I quickly crossed the street and was able to get set-up for this train, which turned-out to be a northbound empty coal train, combined with a unit grain train! This monster train also had a YN3b ET44AH leading a YN2 AC44CW and a pair of ES44AHs (one in YN3b, the other in YN3) on the head-end with a YN3b CM44AH working as the mid-train DPU part-way through the empty coal train portion of the train.
I almost ran my camera out of battery on this video, as it started flashing the "no battery" symbol partway through the coal-train, so I will admit my heart sunk a bit when I saw it continue into a grain train. However, my battery thankfully had just enough juice left in it to record the entire train and the signals deactivating after, but I was certainly hopin' and prayin' that it wouldn't die on me the entire time, lol.
Anyways, this was the last train I caught on February 13th, as I went on home after this.

This crossing is also a pretty nice one, featuring a largely-original mid-1990s CSX install. In fact, the only major changes I've noticed here was that the original WCH mechanical bell on the eastbound signal was replaced with the current Safetran Type 2 at some point in the 2000s, followed by an LED upgrade sometime after 2019 (I'm guessing in 2020, but I can't say for sure). Thankfully, the WCH mechanical bell here is still going strong, and makes for a nice combo with the Safetran Type 2 on the opposite side.
I probably would've gone to Foster Street at some point as well, but UPking had been there the night before, and the WCH mechanical bell there sadly wasn't working. I did let the signal maintainer I saw know about it, and he said he'd take a look at it, so hopefully it was just frozen and not dead. I or Ethan will probably have to check-up on it at some point, though.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Tennessee/G-Q ... e/Douglas/

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