Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

[AndyWS]

Google caught a WSOR train approaching Boundary Road (formerly 124th Street) on the northwest edge of Milwaukee, WI last November.

https://goo.gl/maps/isa6hoEf1gsSnFLo7

The adjacent crossing is on UP's Granville Sub, not used except for car storage west of Granville. It was previously the ex-C&NW/Fox River Valley Railroad line from Milwaukee to Green Bay. WSOR (previously CN, until last year) uses a crossover from their ex-Milwaukee Road North Milwaukee to Horicon line to access the remaining stub to serve industries on the south edge of West Bend.

[AndyWS]

Posting these here since it can't be confirmed that they currently still exist, since the newest imagery is from 2012.

Couple of US&S teardrops on an out-of-service line from Pierce City to Carthage in southwestern Missouri. It looks like a stub is still used for car storage in Carthage, but ends at Fairview Avenue and any signalized crossings along it have had e-bells installed.

https://goo.gl/maps/VXLBDvoFTxLXaHSr9

https://goo.gl/maps/iW7wrx2btAoy5z4o7

[freebrickproductions]

Posting these here since it can't be confirmed that they currently still exist, since the newest imagery is from 2012.

Couple of US&S teardrops on an out-of-service line from Pierce City to Carthage in southwestern Missouri. It looks like a stub is still used for car storage in Carthage, but ends at Fairview Avenue and any signalized crossings along it have had e-bells installed.

https://goo.gl/maps/VXLBDvoFTxLXaHSr9

https://goo.gl/maps/iW7wrx2btAoy5z4o7

It's believed they are all gone now, sadly. They're marked as such on the US&S Teardrop map, at the very least:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid= ... sp=sharing

[freebrickproductions]

Active crossing on the Alabama Southern in Tuscaloosa:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.1941654 ... 384!8i8192

[AndyWS]

Was surprised to see this. The Cherry Ave. wigwag in Fresno, CA is still in service (or at least was as of January 2022), but with 8" L.E.D. flashing lights added to the mast underneath it! A "2 tracks" sign was also added

https://goo.gl/maps/3ftc2DSK3VyC2R35A

http://www.rxrsignals.com/California/D-H/Fresno/Cherry/

Similar setup at the adjacent Fulton St.!

https://goo.gl/maps/1yx8fvdLHSeDUiam9

[freebrickproductions]

Was surprised to see this. The Cherry Ave. wigwag in Fresno, CA is still in service (or at least was as of January 2022), but with 8" L.E.D. flashing lights added to the mast underneath it! A "2 tracks" sign was also added

https://goo.gl/maps/3ftc2DSK3VyC2R35A

http://www.rxrsignals.com/California/D-H/Fresno/Cherry/

Similar setup at the adjacent Fulton St.!

https://goo.gl/maps/1yx8fvdLHSeDUiam9

IIRC, one of the wigwags failed at some point, so the SJVR did that. Still pretty neat though.

[SirKrunch]

Was surprised to see this. The Cherry Ave. wigwag in Fresno, CA is still in service (or at least was as of January 2022), but with 8" L.E.D. flashing lights added to the mast underneath it! A "2 tracks" sign was also added

https://goo.gl/maps/3ftc2DSK3VyC2R35A

http://www.rxrsignals.com/California/D-H/Fresno/Cherry/

Similar setup at the adjacent Fulton St.!

https://goo.gl/maps/1yx8fvdLHSeDUiam9

IIRC, one of the wigwags failed at some point, so the SJVR did that. Still pretty neat though.

A lot of videos of both on this railfan's YT: https://www.youtube.com/@sanjoaquinvall ... 799/videos

[freebrickproductions]

Looks to be a fully original 1970s SOU install here with some odd 2 Tracks signs:
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.1755176 ... 384!8i8192

[Nascar Fan007]

some classic MoPac era bell less gateless setups along the MNA in Carthage, MO.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.177589, ... 384!8i8192
Olive St, Carthage, MO
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.1728743 ... 384!8i8192
Chestnut St, Carthage, MO
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.172031, ... 384!8i8192
Poplar St, Carthage, MO
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.171082, ... 384!8i8192
Cedar St, Carthage, MO

Continuing south on the MNA line. A pair of 80's MoPac MI install with a 1st gen wch mechanical bell.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.1674545 ... 384!8i8192

Further south is a former bell less gateless crossing at Centennial Ave in which received a GS electronic bell, as well as a new relay case sometime in the recent years.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.1620272 ... 384!8i8192
Here's what the crossing looked like from the last time streetview went through back in 2013.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.1619787 ... 312!8i6656

Down the line at Fairview Ave, this crossing used to have a pair of older gateless signals with Modern Industries 12x20 inch lights, and a wch mechanical bell.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.1547367 ... 384!8i8192
Unfortunately MNA replaced those signals with newer gated signals and two GS (probably) type 3 electronics sometime in the recent year or so.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.1547305 ... 384!8i8192

[freebrickproductions]

Active crossing in South Dakota:
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.2945738 ... ?entry=ttu