*originally recorded on 3-31-22*
Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Modern Industries 12x24 inch lights, an NEG electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, RECO LED gate lights, and an NEG LED gate light.
Signal on the right: 4 pairs of Modern Industries 12x24 inch lights, a General Signals Type 2 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.
While waiting on TA-East in Tallahassee, I'd been hearing something working the yard over the scanner, but I thought it was just TA-Local having returned to the yard already. After catching TA-East pulling into Tallahassee, I went over to Gretna to wait for TA-West to leave, though it turned-out that what I had heard earlier was a TA-West working the yard and leaving west. As such, I was just sitting here playing on my phone, I guess just to kill time before heading back to the hotel, when all of a sudden I hear the Gretna defect detector to my north going off, and reading out an axle count of just 8. As such, I quickly grabbed my camera and set-up, and was able to get TA-West running back to Tallahassee with a pair of HLCX GP38-2s running lite. The crew on this train was also friendly and gave me a small horn show here as well, which was a nice bonus.
No idea what they were doing on this afternoon, but based on the timings of it all, I assume they'd just taken some cars out to Chattahoochee for the AN, but didn't bring any back, for some reason.
As you can see, this crossing has changed a little bit since I last recorded it back in 2016. The most major change here was, sometime between my videos here in 2016 and CSX selling the line in 2019, the dying WCH mechanical bell on the far signal has been replaced with the current NEG e-bell. Sometime in this same timeframe, the RECO LED on the tip of the gate arm on the far signal was also replaced with the current NEG LED gate light.
Other than that though, no major changes appear to have occurred to this crossing. Back in 2016 when I was last here, I had considered this to be the least interesting crossing that I filmed on that trip (with really the dying WCH bell being the only point of interest for me). I still kinda stand by it, as these signals very much aren't the most interesting ones along this line. However, I'm glad to see that these modernized SCL signals (I believe from the early-70s) are still around, especially since they still retain a pair of early Safetran gate mechs. The MI lights that CSX installed here in the 80s/90s are also pretty cool to see as well, IMHO.
http://www.rxrsignals.com/Florida/Gretna/Church/
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