Tracks out of service

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brett nc railfanner wrote:Abandoned spur on NS's H Line:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0818788 ... 312!8i6656
The spur and surrounding area use to be very overgrown.
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0819231 ... 328!8i1664
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0818504 ... 328!8i1664

This is off topic but this is kind of interesting.
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0818869 ... 312!8i6656

There is another advance warning sign for that side of the crossing. Kind of defeats the purpose of an advance warning sign when its that close to the crossing.
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0818113 ... 312!8i6656

Interesting sign.
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.082426, ... 312!8i6656

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This is pretty much the only remains of this former spur that broke off of what is now the CSX Saginaw Sub. mainline in Burton, Michigan.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9602786 ... 6656?hl=en
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Out of service crossing in Flint, Michigan.
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Never seen a crossing where half was out of service, and half was still in service before.
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SirKrunch wrote:Never seen a crossing where half was out of service, and half was still in service before.
That is a first for me as well. Pretty unusual! :Blink:
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ToledoRailfan wrote:
SirKrunch wrote:Never seen a crossing where half was out of service, and half was still in service before.
That is a first for me as well. Pretty unusual! :Blink:
Does that mean the right hand lane stops and the left hand lane keeps going?
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Erik-Gorb-Hamilton wrote:
ToledoRailfan wrote:
SirKrunch wrote:Never seen a crossing where half was out of service, and half was still in service before.
That is a first for me as well. Pretty unusual! :Blink:
Does that mean the right hand lane stops and the left hand lane keeps going?
I assume the whole crossing activates when there is a train. Although drivers in the left hand land probably just tend to ignore the signals.
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ToledoRailfan wrote:
Erik-Gorb-Hamilton wrote:
ToledoRailfan wrote:
SirKrunch wrote:Never seen a crossing where half was out of service, and half was still in service before.
That is a first for me as well. Pretty unusual! :Blink:
Does that mean the right hand lane stops and the left hand lane keeps going?
I assume the whole crossing activates when there is a train. Although drivers in the left hand land probably just tend to ignore the signals.
Maybe they based it on the maximum number of cars assumed the last customer can handle on their switch. Although, the quality of the asphalt patch over the grade looks very shoddy. I think if CN ran into a situation where they needed to access that last few hundred feet of track beyond the crossing, they could just slowly run a good heavy motive unit back and forth over it to break open the flangeways. Even so, that just looks silly to have the red board placed between the lanes. Even stranger to me that they bothered to upgrade the signals on the OOS side with LEDs but also an e-Bell.
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