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ToledoRailfan
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by ToledoRailfan » Fri Apr 21, 2017 1:00 am
ZachL wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:
Wow, that crossing is barely abandon! Right on the edge! Literally!
Probably one of the reasons that crossing still has new signage despite being out of service is just incase the cars ever get too close to the crossing.
Those cars look abandoned, though. I know a lot of railroads do that to discourage any further usage of lines that do indeed go out of service.
Those cars look like they're in storage.
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by ZachL » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:11 am
ToledoRailfan wrote:ZachL wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:
Wow, that crossing is barely abandon! Right on the edge! Literally!
Probably one of the reasons that crossing still has new signage despite being out of service is just incase the cars ever get too close to the crossing.
Those cars look abandoned, though. I know a lot of railroads do that to discourage any further usage of lines that do indeed go out of service.
Those cars look like they're in storage.
A lot of railroads use abandoned lines for storage, too.
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by ToledoRailfan » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:21 am
ZachL wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:ZachL wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:
Wow, that crossing is barely abandon! Right on the edge! Literally!
Probably one of the reasons that crossing still has new signage despite being out of service is just incase the cars ever get too close to the crossing.
Those cars look abandoned, though. I know a lot of railroads do that to discourage any further usage of lines that do indeed go out of service.
Those cars look like they're in storage.
A lot of railroads use abandoned lines for storage, too.
I wouldn't consider those lines to be abandoned.
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by ZachL » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:26 am
ToledoRailfan wrote:ZachL wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:ZachL wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:
Wow, that crossing is barely abandon! Right on the edge! Literally!
Probably one of the reasons that crossing still has new signage despite being out of service is just incase the cars ever get too close to the crossing.
Those cars look abandoned, though. I know a lot of railroads do that to discourage any further usage of lines that do indeed go out of service.
Those cars look like they're in storage.
A lot of railroads use abandoned lines for storage, too.
I wouldn't consider those lines to be abandoned.
Why not? They see no traffic at all except for the occasional storage, if that. Beside, if you look at the Satellite view, the cars are still there between 3D on and 3D off, in addition to being there on Street View.
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.4474884 ... a=!3m1!1e3
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.4474884 ... a=!3m1!1e3
I think it's clear at this point that the line is abandoned.
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by ToledoRailfan » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:29 am
ZachL wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:ZachL wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:ZachL wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:
Wow, that crossing is barely abandon! Right on the edge! Literally!
Probably one of the reasons that crossing still has new signage despite being out of service is just incase the cars ever get too close to the crossing.
Those cars look abandoned, though. I know a lot of railroads do that to discourage any further usage of lines that do indeed go out of service.
Those cars look like they're in storage.
A lot of railroads use abandoned lines for storage, too.
I wouldn't consider those lines to be abandoned.
Why not? They see no traffic at all except for the occasional storage, if that. Beside, if you look at the Satellite view, the cars are still there between 3D on and 3D off, in addition to being there on Street View.
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.4474884 ... a=!3m1!1e3
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.4474884 ... a=!3m1!1e3
I think it's clear at this point that the line is abandoned.
But storage lines still see some use albeit barely any but that occasional use isn't nothing!
Its not like spurs that see one train a week are abandon for six days!
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by ZachL » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:29 am
Those cars look to be abandoned, though. That's my point.
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by busman_49 » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:32 am
Mothballed? Unused (though *technically*, it's still being used)? Silenced?
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by ToledoRailfan » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:32 am
ZachL wrote:Those cars look to be abandoned, though. That's my point.
If the cars themselves are abandoned that yea, I'd agree with ya on that.
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by ZachL » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:35 am
It would really help though if we had more StreetView imagery than that, though. Or if someone has Google Earth, just go back in time!