Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 5-14-22*

Eastbound signal: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with Leotek EV Series LEDs, an NEG electronic bell, a Siemens gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Auxiliary signal: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with Leotek EV Series LEDs.
Westbound signal: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with Leotek EV Series LEDs, an NEG electronic bell, a Siemens gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.

On May 14th, I went down to the Birmingham area to check-up on a few crossings. Went to this one first and saw that it'd finally gotten signals, so I set-up to record it. Decided to set-up on this side of it since the sun wasn't entirely on the other side yet, and I like the fact there's an extra signal over here. After a bit of waiting, this I029 came south with an ET44AH on the head-end and an ES44AH working as the DPU.
After catching I029, I hung around a bit (partially unintentionally) and soon heard another horn coming from my north, so I quickly set-up on the west side of the crossing. The train turned-out to be Q523 heading south with a nice pair of YN2 AC44CWs for power, what was easily my best catch of the day. Certainly glad I stuck around long enough to see this, TBH.

CSX had finally installed the new signals here sometime recently when I came down to this crossing in mid-May. Like I suspected, they installed an extra gateless signal for visibility purposes here, so each of the three crossbucks that had been at this crossing were all replaced with a signal. Might see about returning here at some point to get another video on this side in better lighting, as I always like seeing auxiliary signals like this.