Removed Railroad Crossing Signal Compilation (Part 1)

One thing railroads in the modern era do extremely well is waste money. One of the most common ways is with grade crossing signal replacements. U.S. railroads spend many millions of dollars, often public funds, every year to replace properly functioning signal equipment.

Every single grade crossing signal seen in this video has since been outright replaced or removed completely and replaced with brand new equipment. This is despite almost all crossings in this video having modern features such as gate arms and LED lights. Re-use of removed equipment, no matter how new, is extremely rare and nearly all of the equipment seen in this video was likely sent directly to, at best, the scrapyard, and at worst, the landfill.

While the first crossing in this video was removed outright and replaced with an overpass, the rest of the crossings were simply given unnecessary overhauls. This comes as many, many crossings in the United States still lack any form of protection beyond signage. Perhaps a realignment of priorities to signalize unprotected crossings versus replacing existing ones should be in order.
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