originally recorded on 7-1-23
Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights, a General Signals Type 2 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and NEG gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights, 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights, a Siemens gate mechanism, and NEG gate lights.
After the second northbound NS autorack train came through, I went on down to this crossing as it was the last one I wanted to film on this day, and I figured that the autorack was meeting a southbound to my north. Sure enough, I was right, and I was able to get one final train on this day: a southbound NS intermodal train with a Dash-9 leading a pair of AC44C6Ms, elephant-style! Definitely a great train to end this long day of railfanning with.
After this, as there was still a little bit of sunlight, I decided to go down to Brickyard Road to see if anything might come through before dark, but nothing else came by sunset, so I just decided to head on home instead.
This crossing's another nice one, featuring another mid-70s SOU install that's been modernized over the years. It appears that in the 1980s, NS replaced all of the mast lights here with the current Safetran 12x24s, while, in the 1990s or 2000s, the gate mech on the cantilever here was replaced with what appears to have been a newer Safetran one. Then, also in the 2000s or early-2010s, NS replaced the bell here with the current GS Type 2 e-bell. Finally, sometime between 2013 and 2021, two further upgrades occurred here. NS upgraded the overhead lights on the closer signal to the current Safetran 12x20s, and also replaced the gate mechanism on the closer cantilever again, this time with the current Siemens one. I'm not entirely sure when exactly either upgrade here would've occurred, or in what order, other than the fact that the Siemens gate mech here was most likely installed sometime between 2015 and 2018.
Either way, this is still a nice little crossing. In some ways, I kinda wish the lighting would've allowed for me to record on the far side, as that's the side that still retains its original gate mech, but this side still looks pretty nice, especially with the way the late-evening sun was shining on it at the time. Also, as you may have noticed, the cantilever arm is missing a section of its handrail towards the mast. Not entirely sure what happened to it or when this would've come off, though the first available street view images here (from 2013) show that it was already missing by then. Surprised that NS ain't tired to fix it in the 10+ years since it came off, but it definitely gives the crossing a bit more of a unique look for sure. Either way, this was definitely not a bad crossing to end off the day with, and I'm glad I was able to do such here.
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