New rail crossing bells - Brockton, MA

The Brockton MBTA commuter railroad station had its railroad crossing signal bells replaced a couple months ago (for a pedestrian-only crossing). The new bells are WCH e-bells, and are the first electronic crossing bell I've ever heard in person. They don't sound too bad, but I'm not too big how they abruptly cut off when deactivating.

These are the third bells installed at this crossing since the station was built in 1997. It originally had Safetran mechanical bells, then around 2001-2002, WCH mechanical bells replaced them, which then broke down early this year. The signal masts and the lights are from Safetran, however.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• railroad
• crossing
• MBTA
• commuter
• train
• brockton
• massachusetts
• WCH
• electronic
• bell

[sieman700]

cool my favorite mbta locomotive GP40MC 1124

[wileyk209zback]

@sieman700 Yeah, it seems the GP40MCs are starting to be used more on the South Side. Usually the commuter trains going through here use the newer F40PH locomotives.

[wileyk209zback]

@wileyk209zback Actually nowadays, I don't see the GP40-MCs that much anymore! It's almost always the F40PHs.

[zink444]

What train was this?

[wileyk209zback]

@zink444 This was the 1:40 PM northbound Middleboro/Lakeville train

[BBT609]

Electronic bells are for lazy ass people. No one wants to get up off their ass and fix a mechanical bell. Those electronic bells are horrible.

[CommuterColin0906]

Cool. Most of the bells on crossings in Franklin & Norfolk MA got replaced with those same bells.

[eajoread]

they bells like these up in Milton NH. they upgraded them extensively

even though one train comes through every three months

[01721jh]

ever railfanned im ashland ma

[shadowknight227]

cool! you make YTPs and train videos. Your my guy!

[Mcoov]

Why are the crossbucks backwards?

[weatherdan882002]

That's the thing about the electronic ones, I hate that it cuts off in the middle of a "ring".