Whitehouse Road Railroad Crossing, Jasper, AL

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  • Опубліковано 9 січ 2021
  • originally recorded on 12-29-20
    Signal on the left: 4 pairs of WCH 12x24 inch lights.
    Signal on the right: 3 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights and a General Signals Type 2 electronic bell.
    I chased NS 329 all the way up to Jasper, but when the signals at the diamond dropped from green to red for 329 prior to the train reaching it, I figured a BNSF train was coming so I set-up at this crossing instead of the one I was originally gonna get. 329 wound-up coming on through, with the tail-end of it clearing the diamond not long before the BNSF train reached this crossing, based on the defect detector read-out heard in the video. Either way though, I don't mind, as I don't record the BNSF Birmingham Sub as much as I probably should.
    This train was also pretty decent. It was a northbound intermodal train with an ES44C4 leading an SD70ACe and an ES44DC. Funnily enough, I'd actually seen this train earlier in the day in Birmingham, but wasn't able to catch it down there.
    This crossing is also a pretty nice one. The signals here are some older BN ones from the 1980s, which appear to have possibly replaced some even older Frisco signals based on the steps on the masts. In the 1990s, however, either BN or BNSF replaced the lights on the closer signal with the current Safetran 12x20s, and then the bell here was replaced with the current GS Type 2 in the early 2000s, with no major changes here since.
    You can also hear a BNSF defect detector going off while the train passes.
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