11:08 What a beautiful day...... Why... do I sound..... so terrible? 11:20 What is happening to me? (Dies and wakes up) Whoa! Why do I sound terrible? (The bell lives for another minute and twenty seconds 12:40 I don't feel so good.... (died)
@Random Video's my area had a death of the incandescent lights on the whole line (except in Missouri) and they were replaced by LEDs (GE uniform LEDs and RECO LED gate lights) and I watched the whole replacement with my own eyes (on one crossing, when I realized they were replaced I saw.). Had it's first run suddenly by a UP autorack (this is on a Northfolk Southern line) during the process. I was excited about it bc I love LEDs more than incandescent (I dislike the balled LEDs bc I'm more of a dotted and uniform lover)
Great video! RIP Safetran Type 1 E-Bell. There's only two active ones left in my area as one died not to long ago. Pretty cool looking at the replacement process.
Love the progression of the Safetran type 1 dying and getting replaced that same day! There use to be quite a number of Safetran type 1s here in SoCal but all of them are and the last functional one was replaced in 2019. There's still a non functional one sitting at s crossing on the LA Metro light rail Blue line. Great video!
I have the location a LOT of safetran type 1 bells on a map that I have listed in the description! I would recommend checking it out! Maybe you can find another one in SoCal that you did not know about!
@@Hopen111YT Also on the Blue Line, there was one at El Segundo Blvd pre 2008 that was fully replaced with a Safetran m-bell temporarily, then a NEG e-bell on the UP cantilever
Sometimes the FRA gives railroads money to replace everything on a given subdivision which they usually replace every signal on the line, however in this case I reported the issue to BNSF and they replaced only the bell.
I remember one of the lines in my town having almost full Lex C lights, even some on the triangular cantilever railroad crossings. All incandescents including the Lex C lights have been replaced with LEDs unfortunately.
Here in new zealand there is mainly Western Cullen Hayes E - bells but there are a few Mechanical bells still around and and a few Safetrain type 3 E - Bells
Great video r.i.p safetran type 1 e bell. From 2008 to 2022. However it's good to see that the new bell is a GS type 3 e bell. Instead of a NEG electronic bell.
I helped make a map of safetran type 1 bells that show A LOT of bells! I have it listed in the description of this video and I would highly recommend checking it out if you want to see one of these rare bells in real life!
For A Second I Was Watching This Video, Then I Noticed You Posted It Lol. Sucks To See It Die... RIP Old Chimer. (I'm Starting To Think That You Moved To The USA From Iceland.)
The one and only Safetran type one bells are going extinct. We need to support them and because we have many deaths of that bell, we need to protect it
Nothing is better than the mechanical bell. What blows my mind is if we can use recordings of mechanical bells in model railroading, why don't they do that on the prototypes?
Bell working fine, bell started to have problems, bell died, phone dial and ringing, bnsf answers and aware of the dead bell, comes and replaces it with a new e bell
Why does BNSF almost never use WCH electronic bells?? They make a faster, louder and more alarming noise than GS e-bells, which I believe is very important - in my opinion, those should be used at crossings where trains travel 60 mph or higher and GS bells should be reserved for crossings with trains that travel slower since the danger is lower.
R.I.P safetran bell, you will be missed but never forgotten you were a awesome bell the railroad crossing ever had, you will be deeply missed by the crossing :C
I feel for the signal men who back in the day had to lug a 30 pound mechanical bell 🛎️ up that ladder, I own 3 of them. Take 2/3rds of the weight with an e bell.
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GS made the Type 1 modal from 1992 to 2004, then Type 2 from 2004 to 2016. Type 3 is the current modal and probably will be for several more years. When bell manufacturers like GS begin making a new modal, they stop making the previous modal. GS tends to change modals every 12 years.
Why does people keep crossing the railroad crossing when the gates are going down? Don't people even know that is illegal to do that while the gates are going down?
Honestly want to see mechanical bells come back. Or at least have an E-Bells that have JBL quality speakers and have a full hd recording of a mechanical bell playing.
@@Hopen111YToh wait I thought it was 3 tracks on this crossing but, 2 tracks are on this crossing, there’s a crossing up ahead of this that crosses over the 2 track line which means, this road has 3 tracks.
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