Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by ZachL » Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:45 am

brett nc railfanner wrote:
Thu May 30, 2019 9:11 pm
Active crossings in Wake Forest, NC
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9751941 ... 384!8i8192
Nice WABCO equipment!
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by Ethan the Railfanner » Mon Jun 03, 2019 8:42 pm

Kind of hard to see, but this is an active crossing near Bonnieville, KY:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4336775 ... 680!8i3840
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by ZachL » Tue Jun 04, 2019 12:00 pm

Ethan the Railfanner wrote:
Mon Jun 03, 2019 8:42 pm
Kind of hard to see, but this is an active crossing near Bonnieville, KY:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4336775 ... 680!8i3840
Close-up of the crossing: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4339526 ... 312!8i6656

Kinda makes me wonder what the bell was before the GS e-bell.
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by freebrickproductions » Tue Jun 04, 2019 2:24 pm

ZachL wrote:
Tue Jun 04, 2019 12:00 pm
Ethan the Railfanner wrote:
Mon Jun 03, 2019 8:42 pm
Kind of hard to see, but this is an active crossing near Bonnieville, KY:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4336775 ... 680!8i3840
Close-up of the crossing: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4339526 ... 312!8i6656

Kinda makes me wonder what the bell was before the GS e-bell.
Based on the lights, one of the following was most likely the original bell:
WRRS
Federal Signal
Modern Industries
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by Ethan the Railfanner » Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:18 pm

What kind of install is this? I always get curious about various installs along CSX lines.
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.046481, ... 312!8i6656

This is one of the strangest signal set-ups I've ever seen:
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0436121 ... 312!8i6656

This is most likely an SOU install:
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0391914 ... 312!8i6656

That crossbuck though over on the far signal... :LOL3:
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0377676 ... 384!8i8192

Was this likely just a crossbuck crossing?
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0366916 ... 312!8i6656
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by freebrickproductions » Thu Jun 06, 2019 2:46 pm

Ethan the Railfanner wrote:
Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:18 pm
What kind of install is this? I always get curious about various installs along CSX lines.
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.046481, ... 312!8i6656

This is one of the strangest signal set-ups I've ever seen:
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0436121 ... 312!8i6656

This is most likely an SOU install:
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0391914 ... 312!8i6656
All older Seaboard Coast Line installs, I believe. TBH, I'm entirely sure if the first crossing is Seaboard or very early CSX (possibly the latter though, given the amount of WCH 8 inch lights on several former L&N lines I've seen). The second seems to have been an earlier SCL install, and they seem to be rather rare these days, as I'm not aware of too many other installs like that. I know the CSX Lineville Sub has one in LaGrange, GA though.
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by freebrickproductions » Wed Jun 12, 2019 4:09 pm

Active crossing on the WTNN in Jackson, TN:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.6277063 ... 312!8i6656
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by Steven429 » Wed Jun 12, 2019 4:54 pm

Active crossing with the google driver not being able to wait
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9608585 ... 384!8i8192
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by ZachL » Thu Jun 13, 2019 8:57 am

Steven429 wrote:
Wed Jun 12, 2019 4:54 pm
Active crossing with the google driver not being able to wait
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9608585 ... 384!8i8192
Happens all the time bud
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by Ethan the Railfanner » Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:59 pm

Active crossing in Acworth, GA that has since been upgraded:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0669732 ... 312!8i6656

To prove that the crossing there has been upgraded and became a quiet zone:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.066973, ... 312!8i6656
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