Tracks out of service

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Re: Tracks out of service

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Forget if this was posted, but here's an abandoned B&O line in Uhrichsville, OH:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3905428 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3856675 ... 312!8i6656
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Re: Tracks out of service

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freebrickproductions wrote:Forget if this was posted, but here's an abandoned B&O line in Uhrichsville, OH:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3905428 ... 312!8i6656
That's quite an interesting mix of Griswold and US&S equipment there!

Also:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3906462 ... 312!8i6656

Wishbone pedestrian gate :Blink:
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ZachL wrote:
freebrickproductions wrote:Forget if this was posted, but here's an abandoned B&O line in Uhrichsville, OH:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3905428 ... 312!8i6656
That's quite an interesting mix of Griswold and US&S equipment there!

Also:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3906462 ... 312!8i6656

Wishbone pedestrian gate :Blink:
Based on this guy's photo, the "US&S" equipment appears to be GRS:
ImageB&O Grade Crossing Signal - Uhrichsville Ohio by Raymond D. Woods, Jr., on Flickr

I do agree on the Wishbone ped get though, that thing is just cool.

Also, EM pedestrian signals just look weird:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3907104 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.390582, ... 312!8i6656
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Re: Tracks out of service

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Wow, today I learned that GRS made cantilevers in that style. I honestly only thought those were made by Griswold and US&S!
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ZachL wrote:Wow, today I learned that GRS made cantilevers in that style. I honestly only thought those were made by Griswold and US&S!
The old cantilevers at 2nd Street in Birmingham were GRS as well. These have also been found with "Peerless Manufacturing Corp" and WRRS brandings on them.
http://www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/Birmingham/2/
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Re: Tracks out of service

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I thought this was interesting... https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3856675 ... 312!8i6656

Looks like a standard household light bulb in there.
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Re: Tracks out of service

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cabman701 wrote:
I thought this was interesting... https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3856675 ... 312!8i6656

Looks like a standard household light bulb in there.
That is defiantly very strange, I wonder if it was used as a cab signal to notify the crew that the crossing is working properly?
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Hmm, this is an interesting display with the telegraph wires hanging low:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.385623, ... 312!8i6656
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Found this line in Georgia. Appears to be an ex-NS/SOU branch line, and is now under the ownership of a shortline. Doesn't appear to get any use though, tracks look to have been removed at a bridge between the first crossing and the "mainline" of the short line:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.40801,- ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4121513 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4375937 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.442907, ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4627988 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4801295 ... 312!8i6656

Interestingly enough, there are a bunch of hoppers stored on this line in Newborn, GA. Not sure why, and they appear to have been there for a while, so I have no idea if they were put there years ago and just forgotten about:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4878088 ... 312!8i6656
Not sure if they're still there. Looks like they've been removed on satellite view.

Railroad ƃuᴉssoɹƆ and a hopper:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4960652 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5052746 ... 312!8i6656
North end of the hoppers:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5052945 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5092706 ... 312!8i6656

The line is definitely out of service from this point on:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5161984 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5168302 ... 312!8i6656
Here's how this crossing looked when it was still in use back in 2009:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5168625 ... 328!8i1664

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5180085 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5180207 ... 312!8i6656
Back in 2008 when the crossing still had signals, one of which was 8 inch and the other was 12x24 inch with what appears to be a WCH mechanical bell:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5180238 ... 328!8i1664

Another Railroad ƃuᴉssoɹƆ.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.520269, ... 312!8i6656

Another pair of 8 inch signals! Not sure if they're still there though.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5181196 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5177581 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5168506 ... 312!8i6656

Four crossbucks here in this 2007 imagery, wonder how many are left?
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5232148 ... 328!8i1664

Not much left of the line here on this dirt road other than this crossbuck post:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5243517 ... 312!8i6656
And these "No Trespassing; Property of Norfolk Southern" sign:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5243115 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5243115 ... 312!8i6656
I wonder what NS plans on doing with the ROW, now that they've torn out the tracks. Do they even care if one were to walk along it?

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.53949,- ... 312!8i6656

The tracks are still here in this 2013 imagery, but are gone in the above 2015 imagery. Rails must've been torn out sometime between 2013 and 2015:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5570867 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5604896 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5744066 ... 312!8i6656
Going back to 2013 shows it with the tracks:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5743934 ... 312!8i6656
And 2008 shows crossbucks:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5744085 ... 328!8i1664

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5936394 ... 312!8i6656

Not much left here now:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5944414 ... 312!8i6656
2013:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5944325 ... 312!8i6656
2008:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5943334 ... 328!8i1664

Same for the next crossing over:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5949736 ... 312!8i6656
2013:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5950005 ... 312!8i6656
2008:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5949912 ... 328!8i1664

They left a bit of the partially wood and partially asphalt here!
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5960681 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5963403 ... 312!8i6656
2013:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5961811 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.596307, ... 312!8i6656
2008:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5959013 ... 328!8i1664
2007:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5963227 ... 328!8i1664

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5967416 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5979745 ... 312!8i6656
One of the crossbucks had already been turned away from the road back in 2008:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5980227 ... 328!8i1664

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.598516, ... 312!8i6656

2016:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5985389 ... 312!8i6656
2013:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5985389 ... 312!8i6656
2007:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5985221 ... 328!8i1664

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5988225 ... 312!8i6656

They left behind a relay case here!
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.6013076 ... 312!8i6656
The crossing appears to have had a pair of WRRS 8 inch signals originally:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.6012107 ... 328!8i1664
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.6014874 ... 328!8i1664

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.601855, ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.6028766 ... 312!8i6656

The line splits after that. One track leads towards a CSX line, and the other curves back south.

Track that leads towards a CSX line:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.6040618 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.6056183 ... 312!8i6656

Track that curves back south:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.60365,- ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5986301 ... 312!8i6656

The tracks did go through the area between the street view car and the gate:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.593601, ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5908254 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5887212 ... 312!8i6656

A little bit of the tracks remains here, interestingly enough:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5822985 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5820856 ... 312!8i6656

The tracks disappear after that.
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