Tracks out of service

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ColeD
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Re: Tracks out of service

Post by ColeD » Sat Aug 29, 2020 4:47 pm

This spur doesn't look like it was used in a long time, vegetation grown up on both sides.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.5308427 ... 312!8i6656
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Re: Tracks out of service

Post by ColeD » Sun Aug 30, 2020 8:03 am

Looks like a double crossing here, with one track being an abandoned spur.

https://www.google.com/maps/@27.4821842 ... 384!8i8192
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Re: Tracks out of service

Post by SBMetro » Tue Sep 01, 2020 2:15 am

Found this one in Brookville, PA. Quite nice signals with old crossbucks.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.148971, ... 312!8i6656
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Re: Tracks out of service

Post by Snowpix7911 » Sun Sep 06, 2020 4:25 pm

Some interesting crossings from an abandoned line from Sarnia to Chatham-Kent, Ontario.

Bagged up cantilevers with no crossbucks or mast lights.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.4 ... ,13.28p,1z

Lights are gone and the relay case has been opened, probably by a druggie.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.4 ... .98p,0.15z

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.4 ... .74p,1.92z

One lonely crossbuck.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.4 ... ,-5.43p,1z

Double track crossing, both ripped up.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.4 ... ,-9.33p,0z

Both signals are on the wrong side!
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... ,-7.56p,1z

Another lonely crossbuck.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... .51p,0.65z

Double abandoned crossing.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... 4.9p,1.67z

This is the only crossing on one of the several abandoned spurs along the line.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... .89p,0.94z

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... .24p,0.09z

Poor old rusty cantilever.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... h,2.65p,1z

Another lonely crossbuck.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... ,-6.64p,1z

There used to be 3 tracks here.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... -13.31p,1z

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... ,-0.57p,2z

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... h,2.37p,2z

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... h,2.63p,1z

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... 1h,3.2p,1z

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... .74p,1.02z

The spur is abandoned, along with the rest of the line.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... ,-5.26p,1z

Nothing left of this crossing on the spur.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... ,-3.65p,1z

The spur ends right here, going nowhere.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... ,-4.85p,1z

Another spur, Nothing left of this crossing either.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... ,-4.62p,0z

Nothing left here either.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... -11.62p,1z

Back on the main line, featuring some beat-up cantilever signals in the middle of an intersection.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.5 ... 3h,5.9p,1z

The line is cut right here, and the end of the officially abandoned section. The rest of the line is out of service from here.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.6 ... .99p,2.06z

This crossing is now LED, though out of service.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.6 ... ,-5.12p,1z

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.6 ... ,-4.58p,1z

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.8 ... ,-5.88p,1z

This crossing is now LED as well.
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.8 ... 0.29p,0.3z

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.8 ... ,-2.22p,1z

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.8 ... ,-2.73p,1z

RARE American style crossbucks in Canada!
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.9 ... ,-2.64p,1z
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@42.9 ... ,-4.99p,1z

This is the last abandoned crossing on the line, located on a spur. Past here, the line itself is active.
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Re: Tracks out of service

Post by ColeD » Sun Sep 13, 2020 9:06 am

Google Maps shows a crossing here, but apparently the tracks were removed and the crossing repaved at some point. I how long ago? In Pine Mountain, GA:

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.8831741 ... 312!8i6656

Tracks removed here too, at Warm Springs, GA:

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9174126 ... 312!8i6656
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Re: Tracks out of service

Post by SirKrunch » Mon Sep 28, 2020 4:53 am

Wow. These classics with the old school "RAIL WAY CROSSING" crossbucks actually managed to stay up into 2015.
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.2038842 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.2036469 ... 312!8i6656

Strangely, I came across these as I traced the line that has long since been turned into a bicycle trail, but was used for the Bus Scene at the beginning of Atomic Train (1999)
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.247618, ... 312!8i6656
By 2017 it was fully converted to a trail. The signals must have been purely props at the location... because the crossbucks and stop signs were in the same location as they were in the movie. Makes me wonder how far unused this line was when they originally filmed the movie.
Well, :Censored:
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Re: Tracks out of service

Post by brett nc railfanner » Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:18 pm

The only crossing on google street view of an abandoned line that once served the Eagle Mountain mine. It has been abandoned due to the mine's closure in 1986.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7746201 ... 384!8i8192
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