Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 2-17-23*

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

After I029 came through, I went up to this crossing to get it recorded as well, as I also still had yet to record it. For whatever reason, the line went dead for several hours after I029, but, eventually, this 870-axle northbound mixed freight finally came through around sunset with an ES44AH leading a Dash-8 on the head-end and an ET44AH working as the mid-train DPU. It was nice seeing another Dash-8 again, even if it wasn't leading (unfortunately).

This crossing's another decent one, featuring a pair of signals installed by CSX in the late-2000s/early-2010s, replacing a pair of crossbucks. The only major change to these signals occurred sometime between 2014 and 2019, when the original Safetran Type 3 e-bell here was replaced with an NEG e-bell. Since then, however, no major changes have occurred to the crossing, though both gate arms and all of the gate lights were replaced at some point, with one of the newer NEG LED gate lights having been replaced as well since. One of the LEDs on the closer signal has also had the array fall into the lens, and the far signal's backgrounds are starting to look nicely faded, IMHO.

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/G-Q/G ... rden_City/