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YouTube · Mon Jan 23, 2017 5:52 pm

brett nc railfanner wrote:Odd gate mechanisms from the same line as the one above.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.886443, ... 312!8i6656

A model of GRS gate mech, IIRC.

Post by **ToledoRailfan** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 6:34 pm

Kind of an interesting setup.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3230742 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.32304,- ... 6656?hl=en
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Very classic signals!

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3735687 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3735553 ... 6656?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3830238 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3828661 ... 6656?hl=en
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Appears this crossing has been downgrade from a signalized crossing to a crossbuck-stop sign crossing, I'm glad that they kept that masts!

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3947982 ... 6656?hl=en
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Even more classic signals!

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6985035 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6985754 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.698751, ... 6656?hl=en
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Very odd setup.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7516411 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.751426, ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7511141 ... 6656?hl=en

ZachL · Post by **ZachL** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 10:42 pm

ToledoRailfan wrote:The crossing also use to have inverted cateye SORS signs.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.351654, ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3516882 ... 6656?hl=en

Those signs never had cats-eyes on them though.

Post by **ToledoRailfan** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 11:19 pm

ZachL wrote:
ToledoRailfan wrote:The crossing also use to have inverted cateye SORS signs.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.351654, ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3516882 ... 6656?hl=en
Those signs never had cats-eyes on them though.

That was a mistake that I was going to correct before I made the post but I forgot.

cabman701 · Post by **cabman701** » Tue Jan 24, 2017 11:18 am

ToledoRailfan wrote:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5590818 ... 6656?hl=en

If you look at the 2009 image, that mast only had one set of lights on it (it's a one way road), and a bell. In the 2016 view, the mast that is knocked down has 2 set of lights on it, and the bell is now on the cantilever on the other side of the tracks.

ZachL · Post by **ZachL** » Tue Jan 24, 2017 11:20 am

cabman701 wrote:
ToledoRailfan wrote:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5590818 ... 6656?hl=en
If you look at the 2009 image, that mast only had one set of lights on it (it's a one way road), and a bell. In the 2016 view, the mast that is knocked down has 2 set of lights on it, and the bell is now on the cantilever on the other side of the tracks.

The mast from the 2009 image was a different one as well; it was taller and had a bell on it.

TrickyMario7654 · Post by **TrickyMario7654** » Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:47 pm

Active crossing in Burradoo, New South Wales.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.496 ... 312!8i6656

cabman701 · Post by **cabman701** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:58 pm

A somewhat odd installation in Fayetteville, NC:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0399474 ... 56!6m1!1e1

Also in Fayetteville, a 6 track crossing (on what appears to be a pretty busy road)... with nothing more than a yield sign.
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0476553 ... 56!6m1!1e1

I guess the extra mast and lights are for pedestrians?
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0519748 ... 56!6m1!1e1

This is an interesting intersection. There are tracks that cut through the middle of it, plus another set of tracks to the left in this shot:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0523373 ... 56!6m1!1e1
I'd be curious to see how this works. Do all the signals activate no matter what track the train is on?

This interesting crossing was active in 2012:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0514484 ... 56!6m1!1e1
It no longer exists in 2015:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0515367 ... 56!6m1!1e1

Odd looking signal:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0482678 ... 56!6m1!1e1

Check out this relic in Lakewood Township, New Jersey:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0903545 ... 6656?hl=en
I wonder what the antenna is for?

YouTube · Fri Jan 27, 2017 8:46 pm

Active crossing in Cowan, TN:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1634802 ... authuser=0

Post by **ToledoRailfan** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 9:58 pm

cabman701 wrote:]
Check out this relic in Lakewood Township, New Jersey:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0903545 ... 6656?hl=en
I wonder what the antenna is for?

I think that crossing might be manually controlled and they may have installed the antenna on the cantilever just to give it some elevation.

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