Google Street View

[brett nc railfanner]

2 Sirens right next to each other.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8634262 ... 312!8i6656

Two possibilities:
1. The STL-10 siren (on the right) is left over from an old civil defense era system that was replaced, and the Whelen on the left is the replacement. However, for some reason, the STL-10 was never taken down.
2. The STL-10 siren is used by the fire department to alert the populace and fire fighters of fire calls, while the Whelen is a tornado siren.

I'm glad they kept up the STL-10. Also here's a out of service Thunderbolt 1003 Next to a railroad crossing. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5500117 ... 312!8i6656

[NathanFromEngland]

US&S Teardrop Bell?
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.1622915 ... 328!8i1664

[freebrickproductions]

US&S Teardrop Bell?
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.1622915 ... 328!8i1664

Looks to be RACO.
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.1622931 ... 328!8i1664

[NathanFromEngland]

Found a early 1980's housing estate, here is a fun fact from me!

The back of the estate had houses built by a defunct company called Brosely Homes, which became well known for the construction of the estate, along with building roughly 1,000 houses around the Croxteth Park area during the 1980's. The back of this housing estate was purchased by Channel 4 for a TV show called Brookside, the show ran from 1982 until November 2003. When some of the remaining actors moved out in 2005, the houses fell into a sorry state of disrepair.

Thankfully, it wasn't until 2011 when another housing association bought the Brookside Estate, and restored all of the houses used in the set. The old security hut (To stop trespassing coming onto the set back then) was demolished around 2013 or 2014. Four brand new houses now occupy the former security den. Sadly, there is no street view for the cul-de-sac.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4387065 ... 56!6m1!1e1
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.43917,- ... 56!6m1!1e1
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4391903 ... 56!6m1!1e1

[brett nc railfanner]

A thunderbolt next to a railroad crossing.
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8949462 ... 312!8i6656

[ToledoRailfan]

It appears that streetview caught some work going on on the Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad.

[NathanFromEngland]

It appears that streetview caught some work going on on the Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad.

Looks to be a high-speed railroad, i wonder why a majority of the crossings are passive.

[ToledoRailfan]

It appears that streetview caught some work going on on the Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad.

Looks to be a high-speed railroad, i wonder why a majority of the crossings are passive.

It isn't a high-speed railroad.

It probably doesn't get any faster than in the first clip of this video.

[NathanFromEngland]

This UP Worker seems to be excited to get on Street View.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6113577 ... 312!8i6656

[ToledoRailfan]

I've already posted this here before but sense I just happened to come across it again by chance while browsing this line on streetview, I thought it would be worth a re-post.

This is a confusing setup in Painted Post, New York. There is these flashing red signal beacons for W Chemung St.(https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1587436 ... 6656?hl=en , https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1587593 ... 6656?hl=en) and there are these standard three color lights for Hamilton St. (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.158883, ... 6656?hl=en, https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1586666 ... 6656?hl=en).

When I first came across these about a year ago I just assumed that the three color signals were Y-Y-R signals and that when there was a train that the three color signals would go through a normal sequence from flashing yellow to a steady red and that the signal beacons would go to a steady red. But then I later found out that the middle lights on the three color signals were flashing instead of the bottom lights so because of that I really don't know how this works. https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1590846 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1586023 ... 6656?hl=en

Here is one of the wayside signals.