[@trainman758]

Nice video! It’s great the teardrop still sounds nice after all these years and still survives!

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@northwesternohiorailfan5622]

i really love that signal with the US&S Teardrop bell love it keep up the good work

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@northwesternohiorailfan5622]

@@freebrickproductions your welcome

[@travisstokdyk7280]

I love the teardrop Bell is one of my favorite mechanical Bell’s

[@mariolee64]

Nice catch. Love the Teardrop bell.

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@TheCentralTexasRailfan]

Awesome video and crossing!
Love that you met a young railfan!

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@TheCentralTexasRailfan]

You are welcome! Also, my WCH E-Bell came today!

[@McKHAust]

Great video and catch! Congratulations on recording this nice crossing in action, the teardrop bell sounds awesome :)

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@ThunderboltFan2000]

Awesome job David, that’s an excellent catch, couldn’t be any prouder, also fouled Nathan P5

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks! It's actually a fouled P3.

[@ThunderboltFan2000]

My favorite crossing because of the teardrop bell

[@ElliottWolcott]

Nice catch.

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@ElliottWolcott]

freebrickproductions Your welcome.

[@EthantheRailfanner]

Awesome video! Loving that Teardrop there!

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@redhen334]

Nice video and crossing! Those US&S lights look like Mckenzie and Holland lights here in Australia. US&S also made a style of crossing lights where Mck&h again used the same design, but Mck&h used them for an amber signal that would have been placed below 2 searchlight signal heads. It would have been a low speed signal.

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks! We have a few of that style of light here in the US as well on searchlight signals. It appears the Mck&H used the molds from US&S to make their equipment.

[@kyleb06]

Awesome catch and crossing!

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@MobileRailSpotterRxR]

Awesome Crossing!

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@patrimoinecampanairequebec]

Awesome catch David!

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@CoastalOCRailfan]

Great video & find!

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@TrickyMario7654]

Nice Teardrop bell there.

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@BryantsRailfanProductions]

Nice! Love the teardrop, surprised is still here! Weird how it’s mounted on the mast instead on the top of the signal

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks! It's actually on the top of the signal, but on the mast on the rear. It's how the SAL mounted the bells on signals of this style.

[@kyleb06]

It makes sense. Would be much easier to get up to this way.

[@m.c.mbonds777]

Nice catch David, I do not see any teardrop bells in my area in the midwest

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@TheBCRailfan]

AWESOME!!!

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@ZayTheRailfanner]

Nice! If you have a chance to go to the west coast go to oregon they have nice trains in Portland, Hillsboro, Beaverton

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@thesierrastandard7281]

Great video! Strange placing for the teardrop.

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks! It was how the SAL liked to do it back in the day.

[@thesierrastandard7281]

@@freebrickproductions Seems like it'd be easier to maintain the bell that way. I wonder if that's why they did it like that?

[@freebrickproductions]

Not entirely sure, looks probably? The split mast was done to keep the lights out of the way of the gate arm (back when railroads used the wooden gate arms), but I'm not entirely sure about the bell placement. Might've figured they could have the rear mast be slightly shorter since it didn't have a crossbuck, which could have the bell a bit lower (and thus, a bit easier to hear for pedestrians), and plus, they'd be able to fit a pinnacle on the top of the front mast and slightly obscure the bell with the front half of the signal.

[@RaisedLetter]

Nice counterweight

[@freebrickproductions]

IIRC, it's literally a 45 pound weight from a bench press set.

[@MtrayPlays]

A TEARDROP YAY!

[@buffalo716railran]

AWESOME!! I love that bell. How many of those teardrop bells are in Alabama?

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks! Only two, and this is the only one that works.

[@kyleb06]

Technically there were 3, now there is 2. None work.

[@TexasCarWashChannel626]

Why do the bells turn off when the gates hit the ground like are down

[@freebrickproductions]

Because that's the way they were set.

[@NariNW]

Seems to be a slight delay when the bells activate.

[@freebrickproductions]

There is, as I noted in the description.

[@pacificzonerailfan]

Cool

[@freebrickproductions]

Thanks!

[@ThePurpleMage1]

Why does the gate on the near signal have such a delay?

[@freebrickproductions]

It was something with the relays or gate mech, for some reason.

[@vitissubrailfan2540]

And now that signals gone