Norfolk Southern Intermodal with a MONSTER K5LA at Hillsborough, NJ

An eastbound Intermodal Train comes barreling through the Roycefield Road grade crossing in Hillsborough, NJ, on the Norfolk Southern Lehigh Line. The train consists of NS Dash-9-40CW 9606, NS SD70M 2590, and a Trailer/PiggyBack (TOFC) intermodal train of 48 cars. Excellent engineer, he gave a lot of horn on the incredible K5LA horn, very long blasts. This was my first video on YouTube of a freight train; luckily, this was a great one with an outstanding horn.

Unfortunately, as of recently, the bells at this crossing were replaced by the ever-hated "electro-bell", not like they really needed to be, the bells at this crossing have always sounded great. Shame.

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[elirosen1391]

Is this a quite zone crossing?

[ecoRfan]

@elirosen1391 Yes it is, as of mid or late 2009. Hillsborough residents were complaining of the loud train horns keeping them up at night, so quiet zones were installed. Apparently, the first quiet zones in New Jersey.

[elirosen1391]

Are there any crossings along this line that still retain their mechanical bells?

[ecoRfan]

@elirosen1391 Sadly every NS crossing in Hillsborough now has crappy electro-bells. Even though the mechanical bells worked fine. Funny enough, it's pretty tough to find electro-bells on NJ Transit crossings, almost every NJT crossing has mechanical bells.

[elirosen1391]

@ecoRfan I have figured that out. But are there any NS crossings outside of Hillsborough that still have their mechanical bells?

[ecoRfan]

@elirosen1391 Beats me.

[elirosen1391]

@ecoRfan That explains why they changed the bells.

[elirosen1391]

It sounds like only one of the bells work in this video.

[elirosen1391]

@ecoRfan There are pictures taken recently at Three Bridges' Main Street crossing. It still has a Safetran m bell. The funny thing about it is that it's actually pretty new. It was actually put up in the place of a GS Ebell.