Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by AndrewFields » Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:54 am

You think your car gets bad mileage? SP 4449 consumes 10 gallons of bunker oil and 100 gallons of water every mile.
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by cabman701 » Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:46 am

AndrewFields wrote:Signal graveyard, anyone?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 76.54,,0,5
Maybe not a graveyard, but a spare parts supply?
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by Smjh1979 » Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:02 pm

Let me bring a truck, and give me about 30 minutes in there... :Wink:
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Post by TrainmanKight » Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:39 pm

Smjh1979 wrote:Let me bring a truck, and give me about 30 minutes in there... :Wink:
i want the spring gates
ill give away the gs bells for 75 bucks LOL :LOL3:
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by Smjh1979 » Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:41 pm

I'll take the GS bells. If they die, I can rebuild them.
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by Crossingman18 » Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:33 pm

Gimme, a relay case and that mechanical bell in the left corner.
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by allentram » Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:56 am

Here are three more from scenic Central California:

Weber Ave, Stockton:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 55,,0,7.09

F Street, Galt:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... .38,,0,4.4

This one from Lodi was a lucky find. My understainding is that this is a branch line which serves only one customer three times a week. It's a crossbuck only crossing that cuts through a T intersection where the traffic lights add additional "protection":
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 77,,0,7.48
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by cabman701 » Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:35 pm

allentram wrote:Here are three more from scenic Central California:

Weber Ave, Stockton:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 55,,0,7.09
From the crossing in the first link... check out the ped signals... one light and a bell? :Confused:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 00375&z=18
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by allentram » Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:10 am

Going back to my find in Lodi, here's the same train occupying another crossing as viewed farther down the street along another side street.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 02,,1,1.23
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by cabman701 » Fri May 14, 2010 7:37 pm

A little bored at work this evening... did some StreetView surfing and found and active crossing with a train in Denver CO:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 55,,0,15.2

And another active crossing with a train in Colorado Springs:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 1,,0,12.39
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