Before you guys start correcting me in the comments, I'm aware that i said this crossing is no longer used, which I later found out is not true There's actually some documentations about this crossing in the past that I found during my further research (in which I did well after this video), and I have put everything else i found in the description if you're interested reading about.
Hey Thanks... I never gave a railroad track signal crossing or the poles nor the light fixtures or the bell on top much thought before. Much like anything else that's been around for generations they have become another facet of historical lore many people don't always stop to consider. It's the curiosity of people like you that will keep the significance of our past alive. Thanks again...
It's also interesting to note how the rail crossing structures of the past can still accommodate the very sophisticated (and exorbitantly expensive) engineering marvels of automotive ingenuity today. It's just something else people don't stop to consider.
Indeed. And that's what I thought at first too before I looked up any potential documentations for this crossing I gotta come back over here sometime to see if I can catch L310 making its run through here lol
It's interesting with the C&O tags still on that one signal How old that one really is because that was way before the CSX and long before Conrail too. That's probably a early 60s signal when it was posted into the ground back in the day. Especially with the stop on red signal sign there that might have even had a cat's eye crossbuck back in the day
After reading your Description, what I can say is that I look forward to seeing those 2 Railroad Crossings running in action soon! 😁 It’s even neat how one of those 2 Railroad Crossings has a GS Type 1 E-Bell, in which is an E-Bell that I know both of us like a whole lot! 😁 However, I am curious to ask about the pitching on that GS Type 1 E-Bell? 🤔 However, no matter what GS Type 1 E-Bells that any of us spot at which Railroad Crossings 🤔, we will still miss the altered one at St. Johns St. in Wyandotte 😔, since that was like everyone’s favorite E-Bell & whatnot. 👍🏻 I’d include the altered GS Type 1 at Delaware Ave. in Dayton, TN as well 👍🏻, since that was like more altered than the St. Johns St. one 🤔 before it got replaced with a GS Type 3, while St. Johns St.’s altered Type 1 abruptly died & got replaced with a low-pitched Siemens & which could’ve been high-pitched to save the Bell variation, IMO. 🤔👍🏻
Indeed, I am really hoping to get these crossings in action sometime soon, since overall this crossing has quite the bell combo to it (since I put a video of somebody getting this crossing in action in the description, although he only focused on Huron River Dr. But you can hear all the bells that are at least still working) And to also answer that question, the GS Type 1 here is at around default pitch
Whether bells are dead doesn’t matter you can still ring them otherwise, also the tone of a WRRS bell (unless it has a rrs tone) doesn’t say mean it’s older or newer
Yeah, I later found those things out. The WRRS mini bell at Wabash Street has been dead for years, and my guess is that its just frozen up on the inside. And I do agree that the pitch of the gong on WRRS/FS/WCH Mechanical bells heavily vary, since minor changes in its manufacturing could depict its pitch
I always thought that the Lex C lights were ugly. I, personally, have seen very few, so I wonder if they were only made for a short time. I don't know if there was an advantage to the lenses being that style. Really cool, old school crossings
agreed. Hopefully most of the stuff here still works whenever i can get these signals in action, and I believe those GRS LEX-Cs were a limited run, and they had quite a few benefits because they were cheap and somewhat durable (hence why a lot of shortlines and the CSAO bought them often), although the drawbacks outweighed the pros because they were very dim in the bright sun (due to the lack of basic inner reflectors), and the plastic would get more brittle as they age But they are still cool to see, they are getting pretty rare nowadays, and they would've been more revolutionary if they had LEDs in them (even though they were released sometime in the 80's i believe)
@@Damon810Railfan The first that I ever saw them, was about 1983, on a main Conrail line in Williams County, Ohio. They were dim. When rarely do see them, they are on a lesser used line, usually as a lone replacement for a "regular" light. I really hope that you get this in action. Thanks for the info!
Before you guys start correcting me in the comments, I'm aware that i said this crossing is no longer used, which I later found out is not true
There's actually some documentations about this crossing in the past that I found during my further research (in which I did well after this video), and I have put everything else i found in the description if you're interested reading about.
Yes it’s used still by CSX L310 which runs in the evening/night.
Hey Thanks... I never gave a railroad track signal crossing or the poles nor the light fixtures or the bell on top much thought before. Much like anything else that's been around for generations they have become another facet of historical lore many people don't always stop to consider. It's the curiosity of people like you that will keep the significance of our past alive. Thanks again...
It's also interesting to note how the rail crossing structures of the past can still accommodate the very sophisticated (and exorbitantly expensive) engineering marvels of automotive ingenuity today. It's just something else people don't stop to consider.
these are such cool signals, checked them out myself a few months ago and that’s crazy how that line is still used, looks abandoned as crap to me
Indeed. And that's what I thought at first too before I looked up any potential documentations for this crossing
I gotta come back over here sometime to see if I can catch L310 making its run through here lol
It's interesting with the C&O tags still on that one signal
How old that one really is because that was way before the CSX and long before Conrail too.
That's probably a early 60s signal when it was posted into the ground back in the day. Especially with the stop on red signal sign there that might have even had a cat's eye crossbuck back in the day
After reading your Description, what I can say is that I look forward to seeing those 2 Railroad Crossings running in action soon! 😁
It’s even neat how one of those 2 Railroad Crossings has a GS Type 1 E-Bell, in which is an E-Bell that I know both of us like a whole lot! 😁
However, I am curious to ask about the pitching on that GS Type 1 E-Bell? 🤔
However, no matter what GS Type 1 E-Bells that any of us spot at which Railroad Crossings 🤔, we will still miss the altered one at St. Johns St. in Wyandotte 😔, since that was like everyone’s favorite E-Bell & whatnot. 👍🏻
I’d include the altered GS Type 1 at Delaware Ave. in Dayton, TN as well 👍🏻, since that was like more altered than the St. Johns St. one 🤔 before it got replaced with a GS Type 3, while St. Johns St.’s altered Type 1 abruptly died & got replaced with a low-pitched Siemens & which could’ve been high-pitched to save the Bell variation, IMO. 🤔👍🏻
Indeed, I am really hoping to get these crossings in action sometime soon, since overall this crossing has quite the bell combo to it (since I put a video of somebody getting this crossing in action in the description, although he only focused on Huron River Dr. But you can hear all the bells that are at least still working)
And to also answer that question, the GS Type 1 here is at around default pitch
@@Damon810Railfangreat video
Whether bells are dead doesn’t matter you can still ring them otherwise, also the tone of a WRRS bell (unless it has a rrs tone) doesn’t say mean it’s older or newer
Yeah, I later found those things out. The WRRS mini bell at Wabash Street has been dead for years, and my guess is that its just frozen up on the inside.
And I do agree that the pitch of the gong on WRRS/FS/WCH Mechanical bells heavily vary, since minor changes in its manufacturing could depict its pitch
I always thought that the Lex C lights were ugly. I, personally, have seen very few, so I wonder if they were only made for a short time. I don't know if there was an advantage to the lenses being that style. Really cool, old school crossings
agreed. Hopefully most of the stuff here still works whenever i can get these signals in action, and I believe those GRS LEX-Cs were a limited run, and they had quite a few benefits because they were cheap and somewhat durable (hence why a lot of shortlines and the CSAO bought them often), although the drawbacks outweighed the pros because they were very dim in the bright sun (due to the lack of basic inner reflectors), and the plastic would get more brittle as they age
But they are still cool to see, they are getting pretty rare nowadays, and they would've been more revolutionary if they had LEDs in them (even though they were released sometime in the 80's i believe)
@@Damon810Railfan The first that I ever saw them, was about 1983, on a main Conrail line in Williams County, Ohio. They were dim. When rarely do see them, they are on a lesser used line, usually as a lone replacement for a "regular" light. I really hope that you get this in action. Thanks for the info!
Awesome catch of that crossing.
Awesome catches.