Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 6-24-25*

Signal on the far left: 1 pair of WCH 12x24 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, 2 pairs of Federal Signal 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, 1 pair of RACO 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, a dead Safetran Type 3 electronic bell, a Siemens gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Signal on the near left: 1 pair of WCH 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, a Siemens gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Signal on the far right: 1 pair of WCH 12x24 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, a Siemens gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Signal on the near right: 3 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, 1 pair of Federal Signal 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, 1 pair of RACO 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, a General Signals Type 3 electronic bell, a Siemens gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Pedestrian signal on the left: 2 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, a Siemens gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Pedestrian signal on the right: 1 pair of WCH 12x24 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, a Siemens gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
This crossing is located in a quiet zone. Trains do not usually blow their horns at this crossing.

After catching the northbound SunRail commuter train, I decided to head on up to downtown Orlando to get a few more crossings of interest there filmed. After a little bit of waiting, I was able to get my sixth train of the day at this crossing: another northbound SunRail commuter train with an MP32PH-Q for power.

This crossing is a rather nice one, featuring an old SCL install from the late-60s/early-70s. In the late-70s, the SCL replaced the front-left mast light on the closer cantilever with a WCH 8 inch light. Then, in the 2000s it appears, CSX replaced both gate mechs here with Safetran ones, replaced the bell on the far cantilever with a GS e-bell, and replaced the bell on the closer signal with a Safetran Type 2 e-bell. Interestingly enough, the closer cantilever actually managed to retain an old, inverted cats-eyed 2 Tracks sign as late as 2007, no doubt being original to the signals here. Unfortunately, sometime between 2007 and 2011, CSX would replace it with a standard one that uses reflective sheeting. Anyways, the crossing would remain largely unchanged throughout the first few years of SunRail's ownership, but then, in 2019, they began to upgrade it. That year, the closer cantilever had its gate mast replaced with the current one, while both pedestrian signals and the right-hand exit signal were all installed.The ped signals would both be activated, but it'd take a little while longer for the exit gate to be activated. Sometime between when kyleb06 filmed this crossing in 2019 and 2020, SunRail replaced the 8 inch mast lights here with the current WCH 12x24s with LEDs. Then, sometime between 2020 and 2021, the exit gate on the left would finally get installed with the exit gate on the right finally being activated. At about the same time, the far cantilever had its gate mast replaced with the current one as well. Finally, sometime between 2022 and 2024, SunRail upgraded the overhead lights here to LED.
Thankfully, despite all of these upgrades, the old Federal Signal cantilevers remain here with their original overhead light heads, even if they're now all LED. I will say, the overhead lights are definitely mixed in a slightly unusual way, and I can't say I've really ever seen the SCL do it anywhere else like this, TBH. Slightly amusingly, the front-right Federal Signal light on the closer cantilever's had the LED in it come out from where it's supposed to be mounted, so it's sitting loose and not fully in where the lens is supposed to be. I imagine SunRail will eventually fix that, though, amusingly, this is the second time I've seen a crossing with an LED like this, and the other one was also down here in Florida! Strangely, the bell(s) here are also set to shut-off when the entry gates lower as well.

https://www.rxrsignals.com/Florida/L-Q/ ... t_Central/