Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

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Crossing pictures from Plant City, FL are finally here! viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2538
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I don't think I've seen 12x20" RACO lights before.

That cantilever is a bit odd.
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Not sure what's odd about the cantilever other than it being a 1980s Safetran cantilever.
Crossing pictures from Plant City, FL are finally here! viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2538
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Look what i just found.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Dek ... 23.7792617
Safetran Gate mechanisms and Safetran 8 inch lights and WCH Mechanical Bells!

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NathanFromEngland wrote:Look what i just found.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Dek ... 23.7792617
Safetran Gate mechanisms and Safetran 8 inch lights and WCH Mechanical Bells!

That bell is pretty slow! :Blink:

Greece typically uses the same equipment and the United States and Canada. I posted here a while ago a crossing with a different kind of equipment in the outskirts of Athens.
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ToledoRailfan wrote:
NathanFromEngland wrote:Look what i just found.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Dek ... 23.7792617
Safetran Gate mechanisms and Safetran 8 inch lights and WCH Mechanical Bells!

That bell is pretty slow! :Blink:

Greece typically uses the same equipment and the United States and Canada. I posted here a while ago a crossing with a different kind of equipment in the outskirts of Athens.
Here is a crossing with German alarms of all things! :Blink: :Confused:
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ToledoRailfan wrote:
ToledoRailfan wrote:
NathanFromEngland wrote:Look what i just found.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Dek ... 23.7792617
Safetran Gate mechanisms and Safetran 8 inch lights and WCH Mechanical Bells!

That bell is pretty slow! :Blink:

Greece typically uses the same equipment and the United States and Canada. I posted here a while ago a crossing with a different kind of equipment in the outskirts of Athens.
Here is a crossing with German alarms of all things! :Blink: :Confused:
In EBA e-bell housings, no less!

Also, one of the WCH mechanicals at the first crossing that was posted is missing the gong! :Eeeeek:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Dek ... 23.7792617
They/Them for me, please.

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ToledoRailfan wrote:
NathanFromEngland wrote: That bell is pretty slow! :Blink:

Greece typically uses the same equipment and the United States and Canada. I posted here a while ago a crossing with a different kind of equipment in the outskirts of Athens.
Crossing with bells like that in Greece typically do that, i don't know why. One of the crossing bells there are dead since its gong is missing.

Welp, this is surprising.

Safetran 8 inch lights, Safetran Gate Mechanisms and Safetran Mechanical Bells!

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@39.70172 ... 312!8i6656


It seems that they got some crossing equipment from AZD! (AZD is a company based in the Czech Republic)
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@41.11785 ... 56!6m1!1e1
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Geez! Next we'll find out that Greece has an NRS or Unipart Rail wig-wag at a crossing there! :Ohmy:
They/Them for me, please.

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