Tracks out of service

[ToledoRailfan]

Here is an interesting spur that broke off an active street running line!
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4741207 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4744013 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4747329 ... 6656?hl=en

Part of the line has been removed.
It appears that this part of the line has purposely been preserved.

[ZachL]

Here is an interesting spur that broke off an active street running line!
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4741207 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4744013 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4747329 ... 6656?hl=en

Part of the line has been removed.
It appears that this part of the line has purposely been preserved.

And back in 2008, it was still connected!
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4741335 ... 1664?hl=en

[ToledoRailfan]

Here are some abandon lines here in Toledo! Who knows when these went out of service! I wonder what Railroad last used these.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6576755 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6575827 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6575416 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6574958 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6573231 ... 6656?hl=en

Here is a paved over street running line! I never even knew about this one until just now!
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.657459, ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6572695 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6566066 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6562311 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6555415 ... 6656?hl=en

Exposed rail!
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Here is an interesting abandon line. There is also no other evidence left for the line that use to exist here!
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6661165 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6657992 ... 6656?hl=en

Here it is with less cars.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6661315 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6658114 ... 6656?hl=en

[ToledoRailfan]

Here is an abandon crossing in the L'Anse Reservation, Michigan.
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8204892 ... 1664?hl=en
This looks cool with the Bay in the background!

Not too far away there is this cool abandon bridge!

[ToledoRailfan]

So I was browsing the Kansas City Streetcar line on Streetview and all of a sudden I come a cross this interesting abandon narrow gauge crossing!
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0847479 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0847479 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0846251 ... 6656?hl=en

This is so strange and interesting and I couldn't find any other evidence for this line.

[NathanFromEngland]

Netherfield
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.96223 ... 6656?hl=en

Couldn't find any history on this line, but judging by the light design the line it may have shut during late 1990's or early 2000's. Since that streetview was taken, the lights and gates were removed, and the trackage running along the road was tarmacked over.

Oswerty
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.87978 ... 312!8i6656
The line which was for a narrow gauge or steam railway, which has been closed since 1971, had this crossing installed in the 1980's when the A5 was built, what even makes this crossing more strange is that the trackage in in a reasonable condition, however some plants block the track views so if a train ever passed through here it would strike a tree branch or an overgrown plant. In 1994, when Railtrack (Now Network Rail) introduced warning signs for notifying drivers about they were about to approach the level crossing, unsurprisingly. Oswerty got the signage, even though the line is defunct!

Fosseway
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.66896 ... 312!8i6656
Fosseway Level Crossing was a crossing that served a double track line until the 1990's which was operated by EWS? In 2003, the line was closed down when Charringtons closed. If you want to find out any more information type in Fosseway level crossing on Google and click the South Staffordshire website.

I'll be adding more level crossings that are defunct.

EDIT: Here is another crossing!

Steeple Claydon
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.93113 ... 312!8i6656

Steeple Claydon, otherwise known as Claydon was a former level crossing that had a double track until it was singled in 1985. The crossing was a former wheel operated crossing until 1976, when it was replaced by a AHB (Automatic Half Barrier) nearly ten years after the station closed and when passenger trains left the line (1968 was when it closed) In 1985, the track was converted to a single line, which mean't the AHB was downgraded to an AOCL (Automatic Open crossing Locally Monitored)

In 1993, the last freight train rolled through the crossing, and the tracks went defunct.

The crossing equipment stayed around until 2009-2010 IIRC, when they were removed. Now the only equipment at the crossing was the white light to tell trains when the crossing was active and the warning signs (they were installed a year after the line and crossing were closed!) The crossing had white borders, If you look where the white light is, you can see one of the old station platforms.

But here's some good news and bad news.

The good news is: The approval in Autumn 2012 of the western section of the East West Rail Link project should see the line through Claydon reopened by this year. :)
The bad news is: The current proposals do not include the reopening of Claydon station. :(

[freebrickproductions]

Netherfield
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.96223 ... 6656?hl=en

Couldn't find any history on this line, but judging by the light design the line it may have shut during late 1990's or early 2000's. Since that streetview was taken, the lights and gates were removed, and the trackage running along the road was tarmacked over.

Also, it looks like the crossing had manual gates at it?

[NathanFromEngland]

Netherfield
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.96223 ... 6656?hl=en

Couldn't find any history on this line, but judging by the light design the line it may have shut during late 1990's or early 2000's. Since that streetview was taken, the lights and gates were removed, and the trackage running along the road was tarmacked over.

Also, it looks like the crossing had manual gates at it?

It might of, but it may have been wheel-operated, the signalman would turn a wheel to close the gates and close them, but i couldn't see a signalbox (Could've been demolished) before the Google Street View car went through.

[ToledoRailfan]

This 45 degree crossbuck is for this long abandon line in Taunton, Massachusetts. Kind of odd that it is on the opposite side of the crossing.
As you can see the crossing is quite heavily paved over.

There is also some removed pieces of rail left.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8884485 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8875175 ... 6656?hl=en

Down the former right of way there is this crossing with a crossbuck that is in pretty good condition.

The location of former bridges are now used for a pipeline to cross over the roads.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8846325 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8832326 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8821112 ... 6656?hl=en

There are some abandon cars at the end of the line!

[NathanFromEngland]

Breakwater Road, NJ and Tabernacle Road
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@38.99701 ... !1e1?hl=en
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@38.98482 ... !1e1?hl=en
The crossing was owned by Cape May Seashore Lines, however. A train hadn't been by the crossing since 2010, and the line hasn't had its service resumed since March 2012, when vandals stole tracks from them.

NJDOT began the $7.1 million project in February 2011 to reconstruct and widen sections of Route 9 between mileposts 3.9 and 5.7. The two new intersections have been created by extending Tabernacle Road and Breakwater Road to Route 9.

When the road was completed in May 2012, NJDOT installed railroad crossing signals, however. A month later in June 2012, The lights were turned sideways, the gates (excluding the pedestrian gates) were removed, and the Exempt signs were posted below the DO NOT STOP ON TRACKS sign.

Almost all of the equipment at Tabernacle Road is the same, except it has WCH 12x24 inch lights, except one of them have vanished!