Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

[freebrickproductions]

Here's a rather cool 8 inch crossing in Florida with three mechanical bells:
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.8417648 ... 312!8i6656

This crossing is just down from the display crossing I posted earlier in Pinellas Park, Florida. I stopped and snapped a few pictures of it as I was out running errands Saturday morning. The third gate is actually for a driveway for the back entrance to a police station. It is the only crossing that I know of along this line that still has all 8 inch lights.

I would love to see this in action, but there are at most only a few trains a week through here, and I believe mostly at night, so it may take awhile.

Glad to see it's still there!

Here's an active crossing in Rockmart, GA:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0008286 ... 312!8i6656

[ToledoRailfan]

Strange SORS signs. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6978584 ... 312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@34.698051, ... 312!8i6656

This crossing is also on a narrow gauge line! https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6979391 ... 312!8i6656
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A "DO NOT STOP UNDER GATE" sign. It is also inverted! https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1885909 ... 6656?hl=en
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8'' G.R.S Lex-c lights. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1875771 ... 6656?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1878946 ... 6656?hl=en
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Odd setup. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7426248 ... 6656?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7425013 ... 6656?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7424502 ... 6656?hl=en
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CSX style of bell placement on a Union Pacific crossing. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9663591 ... 6656?hl=en
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Odd crossbuck stop sign posts. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.5137478 ... !1e1?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@34.5136548 ... !1e1?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@34.5133754 ... !1e1?hl=en
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Odd crossing id tags. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.8642689 ... 6656?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@34.8645549 ... 6656?hl=en
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For some reason, there is a crossbuck here. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7998764 ... !1e1?hl=en
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Odd setup. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8020331 ... !1e1?hl=en
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Here is a cool pedestrian crossing. https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4942618 ... 6656?hl=en
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Very odd pedestrian crossing. Notice the incorrectly installed crossbuck! I've never seen a miniature crossbuck installed incorrectly before! https://www.google.com/maps/@42.495891, ... 6656?hl=en
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Active crossing. Bennettsville, South Carolina. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6028234 ... !1e1?hl=en

[freebrickproductions]

Strange SORS signs. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6978584 ... 312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@34.698051, ... 312!8i6656

This crossing is also on a narrow gauge line! https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6979391 ... 312!8i6656

Pretty neat little mining railroad there. That appears to be their only crossing.
Based on the rust and plants though, I'd say the crossing doesn't get much use.
I wonder who made those lights though...

CSX style of bell placement on a Union Pacific crossing. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9663591 ... 6656?hl=en

UP does that now.

[ToledoRailfan]

Strange SORS signs. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6978584 ... 312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@34.698051, ... 312!8i6656

This crossing is also on a narrow gauge line! https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6979391 ... 312!8i6656

Pretty neat little mining railroad there. That appears to be their only crossing.
Based on the rust and plants though, I'd say the crossing doesn't get much use.
I wonder who made those lights though...

I think the line is abandon.

CSX style of bell placement on a Union Pacific crossing. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9663591 ... 6656?hl=en

UP does that now.

Do they do it for improvement of sound?

[cabman701]

Strange SORS signs. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6978584 ... 312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@34.698051, ... 312!8i6656

This crossing is also on a narrow gauge line! https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6979391 ... 312!8i6656

Pretty neat little mining railroad there. That appears to be their only crossing.
Based on the rust and plants though, I'd say the crossing doesn't get much use.
I wonder who made those lights though...

I think the line is abandon.

Did you guys see this factory down the road a bit? The tracks appear to be severed here.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6943679 ... 312!8i6656

[freebrickproductions]

Strange SORS signs. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6978584 ... 312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@34.698051, ... 312!8i6656

This crossing is also on a narrow gauge line! https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6979391 ... 312!8i6656

Pretty neat little mining railroad there. That appears to be their only crossing.
Based on the rust and plants though, I'd say the crossing doesn't get much use.
I wonder who made those lights though...

I think the line is abandon.

Did you guys see this factory down the road a bit? The tracks appear to be severed here.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6943679 ... 312!8i6656

Well that's a shame. That looks liek it would've been a neat operation to see in use.

Also, here's a classic crossing in Troy, NY:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7083543 ... 6ZeDOw!2e0

[ZachL]

Active crossing in Bushnell, FL:
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.6649006 ... 312!8i6656

And it's a new-style CSX install with Safetran Type-3s too!
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.6648943 ... 312!8i6656

[Trainzmandude2012]

Had to hold these while rxrsignal's domain was being changed:

New Hope & Ivyland Railroad 2198 @ Reeder Road, New Hope, PA
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3528506 ... 312!8i6656
NJT Pascack Valley Line:
County Road 46, Nanuet, NY
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0868649 ... 312!8i6656
Linwood Ave, Emerson, NJ
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9753216 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9751971 ... 312!8i6656
That is pretty turned out of place (Lodi St, Hackensack, NJ)
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8752603 ... 312!8i6656
NJT Atlantic City Line:
NJ-50, Galloway, NJ
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5260649 ... 312!8i6656
Not exempt by any stretch (Atlantic City-Brigantine Connector, Atlantic City, NJ):
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.3639615 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2609724 ... 312!8i6656

[busman_49]

Not exempt by any stretch (Atlantic City-Brigantine Connector, Atlantic City, NJ):
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.3639615 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2609724 ... 312!8i6656

Exempt only means that school buses and hazardous materials carriers are not required to stop at those tracks. Often, it's placed on crossings where there is a high number of rear-end collisions involving a vehicle that was stopped for the crossing (bus, haz-mat vehicle). Exempt status is placed a lot of times on dead & out-of-service crossings, but that's not the only place they are used (was it ever the intent?)

[cabman701]

Active crossing in Bushnell, FL:
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.6649006 ... 312!8i6656

And it's a new-style CSX install with Safetran Type-3s too!
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.6648943 ... 312!8i6656

Did you notice between your two posts (active shot in 2011 to the newer shot in 2014) it gained a pedestrian gate? They put the e-bell for this side on that gate and not on the main signal.