Southeast US Railroad Crossings 2016

See Part 2 here:

Finally got this done! Interestingly enough, the crossing at the beginning and the crossing at the end are the two signalized crossings from Gurley, AL. This video is also almost three and a half hours long, so you might want to make sure you have plenty of time to watch this in. It also contains 126 different railroad crossings. My camera also liked to shut off early a couple of times for some reason, so a few of these recordings might not show the signals shutting off all the way. The vast majority of the crossings I recorded this year also had incandescent lights.

2016 wasn't that great a year for the world as a whole, but it was one of my best years railfanning. I caught several new trains (due to a few old ones on the NS Memphis District East End being removed and/or replaced) and railfanned in Kentucky, Georgia, and Florida for the first time. I also saw a much greater variety in crossing equipment this year than last year, including a crossing with four mechanical bells! I was also able to record some General Signals Type 3 electronic bells for the first time in 2016, along with recording 8 inch GRS Lex-C lights as well. Monroe Street's crossing in Courtland, AL was also closed, but the signals got re-installed at Jackson Street in the same town to replace the aging gateless signals there. Alabama Street in Courtland, AL also had the signals there get replaced, along with the signals at Old Trinity Road in Trinity, AL and Mooresville Road in Bella Mina, AL. Market Street in Athens also got the signals replaced with gated cantilevers, including a pedestrian signal on one side of the crossing. This crossing also had one of the first known installs of Leotek EV series LEDs. During 2016, I was also able to get every single public signalized crossing in Madison County, AL recorded. I was also able to find a few CSX crossings that still retained the which emergency information signs, along with an NS crossbuck crossing in Decatur, AL which still had one. I also managed to find a crossing in Tennessee with a mechanical school bell as the bell in use on it.

There were several changes to the railroads as well, other than Norfolk Southern getting rid of, rerouting, and creating several trains. Norfolk Southern got ET44AC engines in the first part of the summer, and the HMCR got three B38-8s, though one of them was out of commission for the entire year. CSX also retired all of their standard-cab GEs during 2016, and sent a number of them back to GE, IIRC. I was also able to catch various other railroads' Tier-4 GEVOs this year, such as CSX, BNSF, and UP. All three of those railroads got their Tier-4s back in 2015.

[CrazyMarioRailfan]

40:43 This SafeTran Bell is beautiful and the NS GP38/GP40 The K5LA Horn sound is very beautiful!

[JawTooth]

At 2:15 I see a McDonalds across the tracks. It seems like there are hundreds of McDonalds within sight of the railroads. There should be a list of all the McDonalds that you can eat at and watch trains. lol

[tsg]

13:05this type of bell is my favorite! I love the mechanical ones that ring rapidly

[CrazyMarioRailfan]

0:01 what did the radio static say? It sounded like it said: I hope you gargle tractor fuel or something.

[JawTooth]

Where is that at 1:25:53 ? That is an awesome crossing and assortment of older locomotives!

[CrazyMarioRailfan]

6:20 whats with the crossing on the left its rusty and the signal isn't in right position

[tsg]

8:02 is that literally how far the gate on the left can go up?

[angelgomez]

I just saw the CEX train, congratulations!! Is new, repaired, repainted, good as new. Now they can drive anywhere since is finally fixed, I'm meaning the 9554 CEX train.

[larailfan]

11:00-Why did the train only honk twice and in the south the bells usually stop when the gate descends. What is the difference?

[mackpines]

Anybody know who made those kind of cantilevers at 1:19 and at 6:18? I have a few in my area.

[coleharvey]

down the dirt road in capac they have same crossing with the lights on the side

[razrramonel]

@ Anthony Bondi Give Princeton, Indiana a try trains run through here almost like day and night the only time that there might be fewer trains will be between the hours of 6:00 pm-8:00 pm the rest of the time it is almost a mad house train after train including the intermodal trains, usually my roommate and I go where we can catch a lot of them, we have some very unusual spots for instance when we are in Evansville, we usually go by Howell Yard and we can catch some action there, another good spot is the Depot in Princeton, don’t know of many in Vincennes but you have some good spots that you go to. Don’t dismiss the Southwestern parts of Indiana.

[lmsrail]

I would like to view it on google maps. Also, what was the road name of this crossing at 1:21?

[carstrainsandcrossings]

At 2:35:27 what crossing is that and nice Safetran type 1 E-bell on it

[NTTN]

1:20:21 anyone know what bell this is?

[ethancundiff]

Anyone know the song in the white truck at 42:50?

[CrazyMarioRailfan]

41:02 Why did the driver blow the horn for so long? Maybe Just giving a horn salute

[Atupeue]

how many cars were on that intermodel train at 00:28?

[funJustyou]

2:51:57 That's one loud Nathan K5LLA train horn! It's so loud it can bust your eardrums.

[sandiegotrafficlightstrain]

At 2:54:42, I was laughing at that white car that immediately stopped on the other side when the crossing signals turned on and everyone else continued to move. That driver was all like, "I'm just going to sit here and follow the law while y'all be stupid."