Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

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Here's something a bit unique found in Rancho Cordova, CA:

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.605617, ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.605396, ... 312!8i6656

Those lights have no visors: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.605558, ... 312!8i6656

Here's a video of the crossing in action... you can see the lights on the bridge a couple of times at least:

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cabman701 wrote:Here's something a bit unique found in Rancho Cordova, CA:

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.605617, ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.605396, ... 312!8i6656

Those lights have no visors: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.605558, ... 312!8i6656

Here's a video of the crossing in action... you can see the lights on the bridge a couple of times at least:

What an odd set-up.

Also, here's an active crossing with BNSF in the distance in Birmingham:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.543711, ... 6?hl=en-US
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.543711, ... 6?hl=en-US
They/Them for me, please.

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Looks like a train was headed for 56th Street! This is the Neve wye spur through Tampa, FL.
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.996121, ... 312!8i6656
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They/Them for me, please.

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brett nc railfanner wrote:Griswold signals! :Clap: :Drool:

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.010077, ... 312!8i6656
The lights on the closer signal aren't Griswold I don't think... kind of spaced odd too. The other one definitely is completely Griswold though.
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cabman701 wrote:
brett nc railfanner wrote:Griswold signals! :Clap: :Drool:

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.010077, ... 312!8i6656
The lights on the closer signal aren't Griswold I don't think... kind of spaced odd too. The other one definitely is completely Griswold though.
Still Griswold!
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brett nc railfanner wrote:
cabman701 wrote:
brett nc railfanner wrote:Griswold signals! :Clap: :Drool:

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.010077, ... 312!8i6656
The lights on the closer signal aren't Griswold I don't think... kind of spaced odd too. The other one definitely is completely Griswold though.
Still Griswold!
I'm not so sure about that. I think that signal without the Griswold lights is actually a RACO signal. The base is the same of that to an EM signal as well, but without the gates.
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ZachL wrote:
brett nc railfanner wrote:
cabman701 wrote:
brett nc railfanner wrote:Griswold signals! :Clap: :Drool:

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.010077, ... 312!8i6656
The lights on the closer signal aren't Griswold I don't think... kind of spaced odd too. The other one definitely is completely Griswold though.
Still Griswold!
I'm not so sure about that. I think that signal without the Griswold lights is actually a RACO signal. The base is the same of that to an EM signal as well, but without the gates.
The far signal is griswold.
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brett nc railfanner wrote:
ZachL wrote:
brett nc railfanner wrote:
cabman701 wrote:
brett nc railfanner wrote:Griswold signals! :Clap: :Drool:

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.010077, ... 312!8i6656
The lights on the closer signal aren't Griswold I don't think... kind of spaced odd too. The other one definitely is completely Griswold though.
Still Griswold!
I'm not so sure about that. I think that signal without the Griswold lights is actually a RACO signal. The base is the same of that to an EM signal as well, but without the gates.
The far signal is griswold.
I know that, but I wasn't taking about that one :Confused:
Crossing pictures from Plant City, FL are finally here! viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2538
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