Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 1-26-23*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, a Siemens gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, an NEG electronic bell, an Invensys Rail gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.

After failing to properly record this crossing with I025, I hung around to see if CSX would eventually run anything else. Thankfully, after a couple hours of waiting, this I140 came flying through with a pair of AC44CWs for power, and I was able to get a proper recording of this crossing.

This crossing is the northernmost one on the CSX S&NA North Subdivision (IIRC, Wilson Pike Circle in Brentwood is technically part of the Nashville Terminal), though it isn't the most interesting one along the line, as it just features a pair of fairly modern CSX signals. However, it has had a bit of an interesting history, it appears.
It appears that, originally, there was a pair of gateless signals here installed by the L&N back in the 1970s or early 80s, likely with all MI equipment (and certainly at least MI 12x20 inch lights). Later on in the 1980s, under either the SBD or CSX, it appears that the signal with the bell had its lights replaced with what appears to have been WCH 12x24 inch lights. Then, in the late-2000s, CSX replaced the bell here with a Safetran Type 2 e-bell. Next, sometime between 2008 and 2009, the bell-less signal had its lights replaced with Safetran 12x24 inch lights. After that, sometime between 2009 and 2011, CSX replaced the signal with the bell entirely, with the new signal having Safetran 12x24 inch lights, though the bell seems to have been re-used onto the new signal.
Then, sometime between 2011 and 2014, CSX upgraded this crossing, installing a pair of gated signals, with the gated signals originally having two NEG e-bells on them. The signals here then remained unchanged until sometime between 2018 and 2020, when CSX replaced the signal on the far side with one that appears to have be from the mid-2010s. Strangely enough, despite the signal it'd replaced having a bell, the current one does not have one. Finally, sometime within the past year it appears, CSX replaced the remaining NEG e-bell here with a newer NEG e-bell. Amusingly, the remaining bell on the gated signals here is on the same side of the crossing as the bell on the gateless signals had been.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Tennessee/A-F ... n/Trinity/