Railroad Crossings of the Chattanooga & Chickamauga Railway

The Chattanooga & Chickamauga Railway is a G&W-owned shortline in northwest Georgia and southeast Tennessee that operates the northernmost 42 miles of the former Central of Georgia mainline to Chattanooga, TN, between the cities of Chattanooga, TN, and Lyerly, GA, though the southernmost portion of their line south of Summerville appears to be out of service. The railroad uses some older EMD power painted in the G&W's corporate scheme to handle the freight traffic along the line, though I haven't shot any of these as I don't know when the CCKY typically runs.
The line also hosts two of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's excursion trains, which can be a bit easier to catch, the Chickamauga Turn from Chattanooga to Chickamauga, GA, and back, and the Summerville Steam Special, from Chattanooga to Summerville, GA, and back, the latter of which are the trains featured in this video.
The line was acquired by the Southern Railway in 1963, with ownership transferring to Norfolk Southern upon the merger with the N&W in 1982. However, in 1989, the line was sold-off to the CCKY, who has operated it since. Interestingly, I believe this is the closest shortline to me that operates former Southern Railway trackage.

The CCKY has 17 signalized crossings along it, between Summerville and Chattanooga, which feature a decent mix of older and newer equipment. There used to be another signalized crossing on the out of service portion in Lyerly, but that was downgraded to just crossbucks years ago with only one of the old gateless masts and the relay case remaining there. The signals along the line are largely a mix of older Southern Railway signals from the 70s and 80s and newer CCKY installs from the late-90s and newer, though a pair of old gateless signals from the CofG still survive in LaFayette, GA. There used to be a few other CofG-era signals along the line, all of which were gateless, but the CCKY has long since replaced them, or downgraded them in the case of the one OOS crossing in Lyerly. Six of the crossings along the line are still gateless as well, with the remaining eleven all being gated. Only one crossing on the line is in Chattanooga as well, the rest are in Georgia.

The lights along this line are almost entirely 12 inch and LED, though a crossing in LaFayette still retains a full set of Safetran 8 inch lights, which are fully incandescent and the only 8 inch lights left along the line, as all of the others were replaced in the latter-half of the 2010s. No idea how the one has managed to survive, TBH. One crossing in Summerville features 12 inch lights with a mix of incandescent and LED bulbs, while another in Trion, GA, features all LED bulbs in its lights. The rest use LED modules though, with the LEDs mostly consisting of GE Dotted LEDs, though a mix of Electro-tech, GE Uniform Look, WCH 2nd Gen, Harmon Dotted, and General Signals LEDs can be found along the line as well. As far as the 12 inch light-heads go, they are a mix of 12x20s and 12x24s, with most of them being newer WCH heads, though you can also find older and newer Safetran heads, older and newer Harmon heads, and even some Modern Industries heads along the line.

There is also a small mix of bells along the line, with 7 of the crossings featuring mechanical bells and 11 of them featuring electronic bells. Of the mechanical bells, they are almost entirely a mix of 2nd Gen Safetran mechanical bells and 2nd Gen WCH mechanical bells, though a Modern Industries mechanical bell can be found along the line in Trion. The electronic bells are primarily WCH e-bells, though a few General Signals Type 2 and Type 3 e-bells can also be found along the line.

As far as gate mechanisms go, it's a similar story. Most are WCH 3597 gate mechanisms, which the CCKY has primarily used since the late-90s. However, a few older Safetran gate mechanisms from the Southern Railway can also be found mixed-in along the line, along with a pair of newer Safetran gate mechanisms that ‪@owensri2‬ installed in 2010 on a pair of old SOU signals in LaFayette. The gate lights are also largely LED, with a good few older incandescent ones mixed in.

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