Williams Avenue Railroad Crossing (East 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 dead WCH mechanical bell, an NEG electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 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.
After I got lunch, I continued on up to Madison for another train. When I got here, however, I saw that there was a train lined north up onto the Mainline Sub at Amqui. After a bit of waiting, the signals also lined for a northbound up onto the Henderson Sub, and, a little bit after that, I was able to catch my fifth train of the day: CSX I026 with an ET44AH leading an ES40DC on the head-end, and another ET44AH working as the mid-train 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 closer 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!
For some reason, I suspect due to the heat, not too long after the leading locomotives passed, the crossing began to deactivate while the train was still crossing! Again, I'm not entirely sure why this happened, but it was definitely a bit strange to see. At least it let me hear the MI bell here a bit more, I suppose?
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[@ericshook9270]

This is such a cool crossing! There is still lots of cool crossings near and in Nashville and cool video

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[@jtherailfanner2058]

Nice catch and crossing love that bell combo

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[@joshuatherailfannerproduct7576]

Nice catch

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[@ericshook9270]

I also see that the crossing had some malfunctions which is not good though this crossing does get used a lot!

[@Hawaiianfangamer2020]

It's actually the 2nd track that the train is on its probably never really used and the circuit might be rusted, causing the malfunction as shown in the video

[@ericshook9270]

@@Hawaiianfangamer2020 both tracks are double mainlines and there is trains on both tracks all the time! Both rails shine so it was probably a different issue!

[@Hawaiianfangamer2020]

@@ericshook9270 oh ok I thought that the 2nd track wasn't really used

[@ZayTheRailfanner]

Since you were in Nashville, did u manage to get 19th st (the crossing with the teardrop bell if the street name is correct?)

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No.