Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 6-14-21*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, a General Signals Type 3 electronic bell, a Siemens gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, a General Signals Type 3 electronic bell, a Siemens gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.

After catching the local freight, it appeared nothing was gonna be coming for a while due to some track work around Barton, so I got some lunch and hung-out by Sheffield Yard for a while to wait on NS 320, which it appears I'd already missed leaving the yard. However, after a while, I decided to head elsewhere and found-out another train was lined east into Sheffield, so I quickly set-up at this crossing to wait for it. Didn't take long before said train got here, and it wound-up being NS 732 with a pair of H3 BNSF SD70ACes on the head-end, and another H3 BNSF SD70ACe and an H2 BNSF SD70MAC working as the rear DPUs.

This crossing is a pretty recent upgrade it seems, with a pair of brand-new NS signals replacing a pair of crossbucks that'd been guarding this crossing. I will admit, I was always kinda surprised that this crossing still had crossbucks, given how it's NS's closest crossing to downtown Tuscumbia, but I guess it no longer has them now. The old crossbuck posts were still laying nearby as well, though the crossbucks and ENS signs had already been removed from 'em.