Dolphin Road Railroad Crossing, Haleyville, AL

*originally recorded on 2-28-26* Signal on the left: 3 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, a General Signals Type 3 electronic bell, a Siemens gate mechanism, and RECO gate lights. Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x20 inch lights with GE Uniform Look LEDs, a General Signals Type 2 electronic bell with Safetran Type 3 internals, a Safetran gate mechanism, RECO LED gate lights, and a RECO gate light. After catching NS 320 in Bear Creek, I continued chasing them on down to Haleyville since I needed to get another video of this crossing. Here we see this train at the sixth crossing I caught it at on this day. Since I last recorded this crossing in 2023, NS has done a few upgrades here. The far signal was replaced entirely, I suspect due to being hit by another car again, with the new signal having LED lights but incandescent gate lights, strangely. At about the same time, it appears, NS upgraded the lights on the closer signal to LED. I didn't entirely notice this at the time, but, strangely, rather than replacing the dead GS Type 2 e-bell here entirely, NS chose to repair it using the guts of a Safetran Type 3 e-bell. I suspect these were pulled from the Safetran Type 3 e-bell that used to be on the previous far signal here. In fact, you can see the new speaker sticking down into the projection holes on the bell, which I'd first thought was just simply the old speaker of the bell hanging-down. Definitely the first time I'd seen NS do this with an e-bell, though I'm aware UP's done it quite a bit over the years with e-bells on their crossings. https://www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/G-Q/Haleyville/Dolphin/ If you like my videos, feel free to leave me a tip on Ko-Fi! Any tips you give will be used to help cover the cost of gas on my trips. https://ko-fi.com/freebrickproductions