Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 8-15-23*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with Dialight Ball LEDs, an NEG electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with Dialight Low Wattage LEDs, 4 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.

After I shot CSX L810 in Stilesboro, I chased it on over to Cartersville for one final shot. After about an hour of waiting, as they had to work some customers on the west side of Cartersville, I was able to shoot CSX L810 for the tenth and final time on this day.

This crossing is a bit of a boring one, though is also one of the more interesting of the more regularly used crossings on the CSX Cartersville Sub in Cartersville. In fact, with the private crossing just east of here having been closed, this is probably the most interesting of the four remaining ones that see regular use by CSX.
It appears that the signals here were originally installed by CSX back in the early-90s, but, in the early-2010s, the road here was widened to add turn lanes on the southbound side. As such, although the existing masts and Safetran gate mechs were re-used, everything else was upgraded. The crossing gained a new cantilever (with the old right-hand signal becoming its gate mast), and the bell on the far signal got the current NEG e-bell. At the same time, all of the mast lights were replaced with WCH 12x24 inch light heads, like the overhead lights on the cantilever. Strangely, CSX used a mix of LEDs here: the overhead lights got WCH 2nd Gen LEDs (as CSX was using as standard at the time), while the mast lights got a mix of Dialight Ball and Low Wattage LEDs in them, likely some of the first CSX installed. Since then, however, no major changes appear to have occurred to the crossing.

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