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WillM3luvTrains [2017-02-18 04:33:01 +0000 UTC]

Oh sorry to nitpick but those lights, I think they're 2nd-Generation Western Cullen Hayes L.E.D.s and the bell is a National Electric Gate electronic bell. We have some signals like that in my area.

I could be wrong, you might be right.

They do look like Harmon L.E.D.s, sort of but I think they're made-over Western Cullen Hayes L.E.D.s, well, redesigned (I didn't know what they were when I saw these up-close for the first time, maybe W.C.H. decided to switch to the Harmon dotted look-alike. And when I saw the bell, I thought it was a new kind of Safetran electronic bell and it looked a lot like a Safetran Type 2 electronic bell, which I've still never seen in person. Mike Gillson, the new website runner told me those were N.E.G. electronic bells. But they do look and sound like the Safetran type 2 electronic bells.

This is just an unofficial drawing I did of electronic bells, I think you saw this before: willm3luvtrains.deviantart.com… The two bells on the right.

Actually that's no help, compare the bell in your picture with the bell in this picture www.rxrsignals.com/California/…

Like I said, I could be wrong and I too had the same issue when I saw the lights and the bell for the first time. Now I wonder how long until they change the gate from ///// to lllll

Actually what might help is that same crossing in the picture on Streetview. One of the bells is a Safetran Type 2 and the other is an NEG bell.
Side with Safetran Type 2 electronic bell (Metrolink) www.google.com/maps/@34.579450…
Side with National Electric Gate electronic bell (Union Pacific/ The rear side of the signal): www.google.com/maps/@34.579575… I'd have gotten the signal from the front but the sign below the lights is blocking the bell.

Check it out, a Safetran type 2 electronic bell and a NEG electronic bell at the same crossing! That's super rare, at least to me!

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