MP:  0021.15

 

Created January 25, 2021

 

Total Accidents:   0
Crossing DOT #:  348725S
TOTAL DAILY TRAINS:   10   (AS OF 2019)

 

Page created by: Ethan the Railfanner

 

This crossing is located on the Nashville and Eastern Railroad, with the Music City Star and Tennessee Central Railway Museum having trackage rights over it.

 

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Overviews of this crossing.
The southern signal.

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It has a Safetran base.
A Safetran gate mechanism.
The emergnecy information.
A Safetran junction box.

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The lights on this signal are Safetran 12x20s with Dialight Ball LEDs.
The bell here was a dead General Signals Type 2(?) E-Bell.
All NEG 7 inch gatelights on this signal.

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The northern signal.
It has another Safetran base.
Another Safetran gate mechanism.

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The emergency information.
This signal has more Safetran 12x20 lights with Dialight Ball LEDs on another Safetran junction box.

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This signal has a Safetran Type 2 E-Bell and this works.
The gatelights are a mixture of a single NEG 4 incher and 2 NEG 7 inchers!

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The relay bungalow.
Track view facing southwest towards Beckwith Road.
Track view facing northeast towards Quarry Road and Powell Grove Road, both near Lebanon.
A return trip on 12-20-18 shows this crossing in action.

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An NERR mixed freight leads through the crossing.

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The train clears the crossing and the signals deactivate.

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Another return trip 6 days later shows this crossing in action again.

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This time, a Music City Star commuter train leads through the crossing.

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The train clears the crossing...

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And the signals deactivate once again.

 

 

Note from Ethan the Railfanner: The GS Type 2 E-Bell has been replaced with GS Type 3, according to a comment.

 

All pictures and the video were taken by freebrickproductions.

Pictures 1-27 were taken on 12-4-18.

Pictures 28-39 were taken on 12-20-18.

Pictures 40-52 and the video were taken on 12-26-18.