Broad Street, Warm Springs, GA

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*originally recorded on 8-10-25*

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of WCH 8 inch lights, an NEG electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, RECO LED gate lights, and an NEG LED gate light.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of WCH 8 inch lights, a dead Safetran Type 2 electronic bell, a Siemens gate mechanism, and NEG LED gate lights.

On the morning of August 10th, my friend and I got on up in LaGrange for our last day in the area for some more railfanning. I decided to head on out to Warm Springs to see if we could get this crossing recorded. We thankfully wound-up being able to beat this I198 to this crossing, where it wound-up having to stop and wait just north of the crossing for a while until another southbound south of it could get out of its way and on into Manchester. After a bit of waiting, the other southbound got going and, not too long after that, I was able to catch my first train of the day: CSX I198 with a pair of CM44ACs for power.
Before and after the train passes, you can hear the defect detector just north of this crossing reading-out for it, both an entry and exit message.

This crossing is another great one, featuring a late-70s SCL install that's still at least somewhat original. In the 2000s, it appears, CSX replaced the gate mech on the far signal with the current Safetran one. Then, at about the same time, the closer signal had its bell replaced by the current Safetran Type 2 e-bell. The crossing remained largely unchanged for a bit, but, then, sometime between 2013 and when I first visited this crossing in 2022, a couple of changes occurred here. The first of these appears to have been that the far signal sadly had its original WCH mechanical bell replaced with the current NEG e-bell. Finally, sometime between 2018 and 2022 (and possibly about the same time as the replacement of the far signal's bell), CSX also replaced the original WCH gate mech on the closer signal with the current Siemens one.
Thankfully, since then, nothing else appears to have changed to this crossing. Despite all of these modernizations done to it, this crossing still features all of its original WCH 8 inch lights! With this video, I have now filmed every remaining crossing with 8 inch lights on the CSX Lineville Subdivision, so I'm glad I finally got to film this crossing in action. Sadly, the incandescent gate lights the closer signal had back in 2022 are long gone, but I ain't too surprised about it either. The NEG e-bell on the far side also appears to be rather loose, given how it wobbles when the gates begin to lower or fully raise. Also, is it just me, or does that bell sound a bit sick?

https://www.rxrsignals.com/Georgia/R-Z/ ... ngs/Broad/