Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

*originally recorded on 6-24-25*

Signal on the far left: 2.5 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, 1 Safetran 12x24 inch light with a GE Uniform Look LED, a General Signals Type 2 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: 2 pairs of WCH 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, a Siemens gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Signal on the near right: 3 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights with WCH 2nd Generation LEDs, a dead General Signals electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.
Pedestrian signal on the left: 1 pair of WCH 12x20 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 southbound SunRail commuter train, I knew that the northbound Floridian was likely to be departing from Orlando soon, so I ran on back down to this crossing and quickly got set-up. Thankfully, I was just able to beat it here with a minute or two to spare. Shortly after, I was able to get my ninth train of the day: Amtrak 40 heading north with a P42DC leading an ALC-42 for power.

This crossing is a pretty decent one, featuring another SCL install from the late-60s/early-70s at it still. It seems that, in the 90s, all of the mast lights here were replaced with Safetran 12x24s, followed by the bells here being replaced with General Signals e-bells in the 2000s, with the gate mech on the right-hand cantilever here being replaced at about the same time (or possibly slightly before in the late-90s). The crossing was left largely alone for a few years after that, but, then, sometime between 2009 and 2011, CSX upgraded this crossing to LED, replacing all of the lights here with the current LED Safetran 12x24s. The crossing was once again left largely alone for the next several years after again, but, then, sometime between 2017 and 2018, SunRail replaced both gate masts here, though the gate mechs, bases, and bells were all reused onto the current gate masts. Then, sometime between 2018 and 2019, both exit signals and the pedestrian signal were all installed here, with the gate masts on the cantilevers having their bases replaced with the current ones at about the same time. Finally, sometime between 2022 and 2024, the left-rear overhead light on the left-hand cantilever here had its WCH 2nd Gen LED replaced with the current GE Uniform Look LED.
Thankfully, since then, nothing else too major appears to have changed to this crossing. It's nice to see that the old SCL-era Federal Signal cantilevers here are still around, even if they've been pretty well modernized over the years. Admittedly, I didn't realize that this crossing was set-up as a double crossing with the Robinson Street #1 crossing behind, or otherwise I would've tried to set-up to film both crossings in this shot. This shot did come-out pretty nicely, however. Strangely, the bell(s) here also briefly reactivate when the gates are about to start to rise.