Gibson Street #1 & Jones Street, Cedartown, GA

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*originally recorded on 8-15-23*

Signal on the far left: 2 pairs of WABCO 8 inch lights.
Signal on the far right: 1 WABCO 12x24 inch light, 1 Safetran 12x24 inch light, and 1 pair of US&S 12x20 inch lights.
Signal on the near left: 1 pair of Modern Industries 8 inch lights, 1 pair of RACO 8 inch lights, and an NEG electronic bell.
Signal on the near right: 2 pairs of US&S 8 inch lights.

This was the last crossing I got CSX L810 at on their lite-power run out to Cedartown. I'd gotten set-up here shortly after I got here and I'm glad I did, as I heard them start to blow for Thompson Street #2 not long after. I'd thought they may have had some cars to pick-up from the train they'd tied down at the siding between Cedartown and Rockmart, but apparently they didn't. Either way, I was still able to get them here before they arrived at the customer on the west side of Cedartown to work them.

This crossing is a rather nice one, and is also a rather neat one located at a 4-way stop with a good variety of equipment at it. It seems there's been a bit of a history here, which I'll try to note down below.
It appears that the signals here were installed by the Seaboard Air Line, I'm guessing back in the 1950s or before, though maybe after in the 1960s, and have had a number of changes since. In the late-60s/early-70s, it appears that the near left signal (the one with the bell) was replaced entirely by the SCL with a RACO (or early Safetran) one. Later-on in the 1970s or in the early-80s, this signal would have a pair of its lights struck and replaced with the current Modern Industries 8 inch lights. At about the same time, the far left signal would be struck as well and replaced entirely with the current one, though the old SAL pinnacle would be re-used onto it.
A bit later on into the early-80s, it appears that the far right signal would also have its lights replaced, this time by the early SBD and with a mix of US&S and WABCO 12x20 inch lights. Then, in the mid-1990s, the front-right light of the far right signal was replaced with a Safetran 12x24 inch light, and it appears that the WABCO 12 inch light here had its background replaced with the current 24 inch one at about the same time. I presume this also would've been around the time the far right signal lost its original SAL-era pinnacle.
Then, in the late-90s or early 2000s, CSX replaced the bell here with a General Signals e-bell. Finally, sometime between 2013 and 2021, two more changes occurred here, with the bell being replaced (again) with the current NEG e-bell and the far left signal getting a new WCH base on it. Since then, thankfully, and despite some relatively-new conduit having been around the crossing for at least a couple of years now, no further major changes have occurred to this crossing.
Amazingly, despite all of these upgrades, the old SAL-era "micro-cantilever" has remained pretty much original since it was installed, which is rather neat to see.
Interestingly, it appears that there are two flasher relays controlling the lights here. One controls the lights on the two signals on the far side of the tracks from my camera, while another controls the pair of signals on the closer side of the tracks to my camera. These two flasher relays also operate at different speeds, with the one controlling the signals on my side having a much faster flash rate, though I doubt this is intentional and the one may just be bad.
Either way, I'm quite glad I've finally been able to record this rather cool crossing, especially since I have now recorded four of the five crossings that still retain these old SAL "micro-cantilevers" at them, all of which are in Georgia and Alabama. I doubt I'll be able to get the last one sadly, however, as it's on a very, very rarely used part of the CSX Bainbridge Sub in Bainbridge, GA. Hopefully these neat signals will remain here for many more years to come.

https://rxrsignals.com/Georgia/A-F/Ceda ... on1_Jones/