Amtrak Station Entrance Railroad Crossing, Selma, NC

originally recorded on 7-31-24

Signal on the left: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with Dialight Ball LEDs, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.
Signal on the right: 2 pairs of Safetran 12x24 inch lights with Dialight Ball LEDs, a Safetran Type 3 electronic bell, a Safetran gate mechanism, and RECO LED gate lights.

After I caught the southbound Amtrak Palmetto just outside of Lucama, I went back up into Lucama to wait on M401. However, as CSX decided to hold M401 for the southbound Amtrak Carolinian, it seems, I decided to head on south to this crossing to catch the Amtrak train, as I thought this crossing would be a nice one to get, even though I wasn't originally planning to. After a little bit of waiting, I was able to get my tenth train of the day here: AMTK 79, making their stop at Amtrak's Selma-Smithfield Station on the CSX-owned connector track between the CSX South End Sub and the NS Danville District with a P42DC for power.
Apologies for the awkward start of the video. I'd had my camera set-up and rolling, but I realized that there was a better angle here, so I decided to move it. Sadly, I wound-up managing to do so just as the Amtrak Carolinian arrived at Selma.

This crossing is a pretty nice one, featuring a pair of CSX signals installed here back in about the mid-2000s that are still decently original. Sometime between 2014 and 2016, however, the original GS Type 2 e-bell on this crossing was replaced by the current Safetran Type 3 e-bell, which I believe was reused from somewhere else (though I ain't sure where). Thankfully, since then, no further changes appear to have occurred to this crossing. These signals honestly do look a lot like the mid to late-2000s CSX installs that would've gone up just after these ones did, admittedly, and I honestly assumed that these would've originally had the Type 3 prior to checking the older street view imagery. Thankfully, they do still retain their original older Dialight Ball LEDs, which are rather nice to see.
The gate arms here also almost entirely block the entire road, though have enough of a gap for any pedestrians on the crossing to be able to get off of it. It honestly kinda reminds me of some of the MCB/full-barrier crossings in use over in the UK (along with similar ones across Europe), though it especially reminds me of a recently-installed ACBL crossing in Cornwall, UK, that ‪@JTCrossingsUK‬ filmed earlier this year. Amusingly, that one uses a pair of Siemens S60 gate mechs at it, imported from the US I believe, though the crossing is on a one-lane road so the gate arms are much shorter than these are.

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