Williams Avenue Railroad Crossing (West Side), Madison, TN

originally recorded on 6-21-24
Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with Leotek EV Series LEDs, a Modern Industries mechanical bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with Leotek EV Series LEDs, a dead WCH mechanical bell, an NEG electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.
After I026 came through, I decided to set-up again on the other side, as I was kinda curious as to what was going to head-up the Mainline Sub, especially since it sounded like it might've been M576 coming. Sure enough, after a bit of waiting, I was able to catch my sixth train of the day: CSX M576 with an ES44AH leading a CM44AC and a GP40-2 on the head-end with CSX 1875, the P&LE heritage unit (another ES44AH), working as the mid-train DPU! I definitely wasn't expecting to get another of CSX's heritage units on this day, so this was quite the nice surprise to see, even if it was just a mid-DPU!
Since my last visit to this crossing in 2017, a few changes have occurred here, as you can probably see. Sometime between visits to this crossing by‪@EthantheRailfanner‬ in 2018 and 2019, CSX upgraded the signals here to LED, and repainted both of them (including the dead WCH mechanical bell here). Since then, however, no further major changes have occurred to this crossing, which is nice to see, especially since it means that the MI mechanical bell is still here. One rather cool change here, which appears to have occurred at some point in the last few years, happened when the far signal's gate arm here was replaced with the current vertically-striped one. For whatever reason, CSX used some older RECO incandescent gate lights at this crossing! Definitely nice to see some more incandescent gate lights go up at a CSX crossing like this, especially of the earlier design!
This time around, the crossing did not try to deactivate while the train was passing.
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[@levitunstall1526]

Nice catch. Nice to see a signal with two bells. sad that the WCH Mechanical bell is dead

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Thanks!

[@RblxRailfan28]

Nice video. Nice to see another MI bell in Nashville

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Thanks!

[@TheMetGuy]

Great catch with 1875, I hope you can see it lead one day

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Thanks!

[@jtherailfanner2058]

Nice catch and crossing

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Thanks!

[@joshuatherailfannerproduct7576]

Nice crossing I love how the crossing has two bells on it

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks! Yeah, the signal on this side does have two bells on it, though only the NEG works.

[@joshuatherailfannerproduct7576]

Yeah I don’t know why they kept the bell up there all these years

[@ArxCyberwolfPC]

Perhaps the signal maintainer didn't want to bother climbing all the way up there to remove a somewhat heavy bell if they're replacing it with a side-mount NEG anyway. Less work needed to just leave it abandoned in place.

[@joshuatherailfannerproduct7576]

@@ArxCyberwolfPC okay interesting

[@RobloxRails2024]

Nice heritage catch

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Thanks!

[@lowellvillerailfanproductions]

Nice catch with the p&le I actually live by an old pnle train yard

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Thanks!

[@lowellvillerailfanproductions]

@@freebrickproductions no problem

[@ericshook9270]

Awesome catch and crossing!

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Thanks!

[@Hawaiianfangamer2020]

Why were those kids running when the signals are on, thats dangerous they should've stopped instead, nice catch btw

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks! Because they're idiots, that's why.

[@westleyphillips1923]

They don't know how to stay out of the way, that right there is what the fuck is wrong with them!😡

[@westleyphillips1923]

They're stupid, they don't know how to stay out of the way of a incoming train!

[@HVACSirenTowerTrainFanFan2012]

0:20 People like that suck

[@gregrocks66]

2 idiots in the beginning