Railroad Crossings of Madison County, AL

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Decided to compile this video since I've been able to record each and every public signalized crossing in the county, of which there are 42 of. Each crossing will have the road name, along with the town it's located in, and the reporting mark of the railroad that owns the crossing.

The reason why I specified PUBLIC signalized crossings is that behind a plant near Slaughter Road, there is a private crossing with gateless signals. Zooming in with my camera on the crossing from Slaughter Road shows that it has what appears to be Safetran 12x20 inch lights and a Safetran mechanical bell. However, as I'm not able to access it, I didn't include it in this video.

Also, since Huntsville is the largest city in the county (and thus the county seat), most of the crossings featured will be from within the city of Huntsville.

A few more things of note:
The vast majority of the crossings in the county (33/42; thanks to NS) use incandescent lights.
Just under half of the crossings in the county (20/42) use mechanical bells.
Just over half of the signalized crossings in the county (23/42) are gateless as well.

Madison County, AL actually has four different railroads within it, one Class I railroad (NS) and three shortlines (HMCR, HMCAA, and the M&C), however, the last one, the Mercury & Chase (M&C), doesn't have any signalized crossings along it anymore, so it isn't shown in this video.

Lights shown in the video:
WRRS (8 inch)
WCH (12x20 inch, 12x24 inch; 3rd Generation, 4th Generation)
Safetran (8 inch, 12x20 inch, 12x24 inch; Older-style, Hawker Siddeley, Newer-style)
RACO (8 inch)
Federal Signal (8 inch, 12x20 inch)
Modern Industries (12x20 inch, 12x24 inch; 2nd Generation, 3rd Generation)
Harmon (8 inch, 12x24 inch; Older-style; Newer-style)

Bells shown in the video:
Safetran (mechanical, Type-2 electronic, Type-3 electronic)
WCH (1st Generation mechanical, 2nd Generation mechanical, electronic)
Modern Industries (mechanical)
Federal Signal (mechanical)
General Signals (Type-1 electronic, Type-2 electronic)
RACO (mechanical, dead)
WRRS (mechanical)

LEDs:
Harmon (12 inch; Dotted, Fading)
WCH (8 inch, 12 inch; 1st Generation; 2nd Generation)
Dialight (12 inch)

Gate mechanisms:
Safetran (S-40, S-60)
Invensys Rail (S-60)

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