Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Post by **ToledoRailfan** » Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:22 pm

Two piece crossbuck. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9266286 ... 6656?hl=en
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Crossing signal in a railroad display. Kind of odd how they do not have the crossbuck attached to the signal. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9200414 ... 6656?hl=en
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More two piece crossbucks. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9185343 ... 6656?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9185686 ... 6656?hl=en
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Yet another two piece crossbuck. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9175309 ... 6656?hl=en
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Even more two piece crossbucks. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9154245 ... 6656?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9154295 ... 6656?hl=en
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Odd pedestrian gates (in a rural northeastern Midwestern town). https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3645109 ... 6656?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3652509 ... 6656?hl=en
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Here is a cool pedestrian crossing. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9339359 ... 6656?hl=en
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This road looks like a public road but it has private railroad crossing signs. https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0014878 ... 6656?hl=en
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Here is another cool pedestrian crossing. Although it could be considered part of the ND-49 crossing. https://www.google.com/maps/@47.2616475 ... 6656?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@47.2614093 ... 6656?hl=en
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This crossing is completely controlled by traffic signal beacons. https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8272446 ... 1664?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8272713 ... 1664?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8273251 ... 1664?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8274354 ... 1664?hl=en
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This is kind of odd. https://www.google.com/maps/@48.3465614 ... 1664?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@48.3463239 ... 1664?hl=en

YouTube · Mon Feb 08, 2016 9:11 pm

ToledoRailfan wrote: Odd pedestrian gatea (in a rural northeastern Midwestern town). https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3645109 ... 6656?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3652509 ... 6656?hl=en

Those look like some semaphore gate mechs, though I'm not sure how many companies other than WRRS/GRS made them.

YouTube · Tue Feb 09, 2016 3:33 pm

Active crossings:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.4912511 ... EL6ssA!2e0
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.4902921 ... zMOINw!2e0

Another active crossing in Wausau, WI:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9655585 ... KC00OA!2e0

cabman701 · Post by **cabman701** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:50 pm

Nice to see things back up and running!

So here is my list of stuff I saved up while the site was down:

Starting off with this oddity in Lodi, New Jersey... crossing is next to a Home Depot. 2 different sizes of lights on both signals, and a teardrop bell on the mast signal on the right:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8860014 ... 312!8i6656

Here is the advanced warning sign/signal:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8842759 ... 312!8i6656
Santa Cruz, California... Interesting upgrade going on here. Wonder what the final result looks like?
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.9628332 ... 312!8i6656
Active crossing in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Train is barely visible behind the tanker cars.
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3671222 ... 312!8i6656
Triangle gate and a teardrop! Rio Del Mar, CA:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.9570346 ... 6656?hl=en
Railroad museum out in the Mojave desert!
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9236024 ... 6656?hl=en
Fallen signals from the recent upgrade in Georgia… It appears the no right turn signal may have survived though.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5730336 ... 6656?hl=en
Also from Georgia… not sure why the opposite cantilever is on the left side of the road, plus why are there no lights for people turning right from this side??
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5793524 ... 6656?hl=en
Some nice old cantilevers in Quakertown, PA. Obviously the mast lights were a recent addition.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4411914 ... 312!8i6656
No railroad… just “crossing”.
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.2681893 ... 328!8i1664
Check out this gem! A quad gate crossing with very old cantilevers in Continental, OH!
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0972781 ... 1664?hl=en

The crossing can be seen in operation just this past September at the 9:15 mark in this video:
Active crossing in Bogart GA in 2008:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9485118 ... 64!6m1!1e1

A more recent view shows a slight change at this crossing… the lights that were attached to the cantilever where moved to a separate mast… my guess is the lights kept getting whacked, as evidenced by the bent cross buck. Also notice the signal on the opposite side still has 8 inch lights.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.94851,- ... 56!6m1!1e1
Active crossing in St. Albans, West Virginia:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.3885515 ... 56!6m1!1e1

Here is the same crossing… look at the snow piled up on the visors and frames courtesy of Winter Storm Jonas!
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 073&nseq=2
Interesting crossing in Norwalk, Connecticut:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1165042 ... 312!8i6656

Check out that first mast signal in the driveway on the left:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.116777, ... 312!8i6656

Here is another view of it… it has seen better days:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 58&nseq=26

YouTube · Tue Feb 09, 2016 6:32 pm

cabman701 wrote:
Starting off with this oddity in Lodi, New Jersey... crossing is next to a Home Depot. 2 different sizes of lights on both signals, and a teardrop bell on the mast signal on the right:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8860014 ... 312!8i6656

That crossing was discussed on Facebook, and according to a guy who lives near the line (I think he's a member here), the crossing is sadly out of service.

cabman701 wrote: [*]Active crossing in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Train is barely visible behind the tanker cars.
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3671222 ... 312!8i6656

I believe I posted that one already.
But anyways, did you see this pedestrian crossing just down the line from the crossing? It's in action too:
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3672973 ... 312!8i6656
That crossing is also on the site as well.

cabman701 wrote: [*]Check out this gem! A quad gate crossing with very old cantilevers in Continental, OH!
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0972781 ... 1664?hl=en

The crossing can be seen in operation just this past September at the 9:15 mark in this video:

One of the mechanical bells there has since been replaced with an e-bell, though it's a bit hard to see in the video. I saw a picture of it on Facebook that shows the crossing in its current state better.

cabman701 wrote: Here is another view of it… it has seen better days:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 58&nseq=26[/list]

That's a cheap way of wiring up some lights on a signal. Just drill a hole through the bottom of the junction box and stick a piece of PVC pipe into it to run the wires through!

YouTube · Tue Feb 09, 2016 8:46 pm

This is just plain weird:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1259342 ... 312!8i6656

Active crossings:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1154354 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1152729 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1151479 ... 312!8i6656

They must've really wanted to use this wind guard:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1154415 ... 312!8i6656

A bit odd:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1131724 ... 312!8i6656

cabman701 · Post by **cabman701** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 3:22 pm

Older Streetview image from Ashland, Kentucky shows a nice old cantilever: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4810155 ... 64!6m1!1e1 Unfortunately it met it's maker sometime in the last few years: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 313&nseq=4

Some nice old cross bucks and 2 track signs in Walkersville, Maryland:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4855268 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4853284 ... 6656?hl=en

YouTube · Thu Feb 11, 2016 3:32 pm

cabman701 wrote:Older Streetview image from Ashland, Kentucky shows a nice old cantilever: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4810155 ... 64!6m1!1e1 Unfortunately it met it's maker sometime in the last few years: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 313&nseq=4

The old cantilever is cool, but those mast lights look straight up ugly with how close they are on the new one.

cabman701 wrote: Some nice old cross bucks and 2 track signs in Walkersville, Maryland:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4855268 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4853284 ... 6656?hl=en

Great find!

Post by **ToledoRailfan** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:46 pm

YouTube · Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:37 pm

ToledoRailfan wrote: This is odd. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9265826 ... 6656?hl=en

Got a US&S mechanical bell there too!

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9267104 ... 6656?hl=en

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