Lincoln, NE crossing inventory with photos

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Lincoln, NE crossing inventory with photos

Post by CIC755 » Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:34 pm

Came across this website tonight. It has some photos in pdf files that give a partial view of crossings, but usually not enough to determine the type of lights and bells.
http://ags.lincoln.ne.gov/rtsd/

A pity it lacks many of the closed/abandoned crossings, but it does have this former, double-type crossing:
http://ags.lincoln.ne.gov/RTSD/images/A ... 70128L.pdf
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Re: Lincoln, NE crossing inventory with photos

Post by Smjh1979 » Wed Dec 02, 2009 12:06 am

Reminds me of the FRA's GIS maps. I checked a few crossings out, looks very interesting.
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Re: Lincoln, NE crossing inventory with photos

Post by SirKrunch » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:39 pm

Sweet! Inverted black cat's-eye crossbuck on a UP line!

http://ags.lincoln.ne.gov/RTSD/images/A ... 15405F.pdf
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Re: Lincoln, NE crossing inventory with photos

Post by Smjh1979 » Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:13 pm

Nice find. Very, very rare indeed.
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Re: Lincoln, NE crossing inventory with photos

Post by SirKrunch » Wed Dec 02, 2009 10:55 pm

The set-ups North of that crossing have the same signal build as well... with the ladder on the back. Looks like a few teardrop bells possibly as well on a couple of them... but with the small resolution size of the photos, and the fact most aren't taken up close, it's really tough to say.

EDIT:
Updated Google Street-View shows that crossbuck has been replaced with a standard one.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.8 ... 2,,0,-0.31

Another edit:
Nope, not teardrops. But still a number of classic signals along the line... even though the lights had to have been changed from 8" to 12x24"...

And yet another...
Very nice!
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=41.2 ... 1,,0,-3.91

Weird crossbuck... big... and yet, also double sided.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=41.2 ... .99,,0,1.6

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=41.2 ... .98,,0,4.4
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