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Found Griswold cantilevers on Griswold rd!!!!!!

it is in port huron mi


https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9655741 ... authuser=0

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dan the ca railfan wrote:Found Griswold cantilevers on Griswold rd!!!!!!

it is in port huron mi


https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9655741 ... authuser=0

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Actually, those appear to be RACO cantilevers.
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I have always thought that this shot of a crossing on street view covered with snow up to thelights was awesome. i have been searching for this streetview for a while now.

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2718557 ... authuser=0

if you think :Noway: my answer is yes
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dan the ca railfan wrote:I have always thought that this shot of a crossing on street view covered with snow up to thelights was awesome. i have been searching for this streetview for a while now.

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2718557 ... authuser=0

if you think :Noway: my answer is yes
That is a concern though, considering the snow is around 5 feet high, it can cause the gates to not lower fully, and most likely burn out the gate mechanisms motors.

Along with that though, when the snow melts, it can possibly damage the insides of the signal from the water
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NathanFromEngland wrote:
dan the ca railfan wrote:I have always thought that this shot of a crossing on street view covered with snow up to thelights was awesome. i have been searching for this streetview for a while now.

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2718557 ... authuser=0

if you think :Noway: my answer is yes
That is a concern though, considering the snow is around 5 feet high, it can cause the gates to not lower fully, and most likely burn out the gate mechanisms motors.

Along with that though, when the snow melts, it can possibly damage the insides of the signal from the water
AFAIK that line isn't even used anymore. I think that is the old McCloud River Railroad.
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found railroad crossing in olive hearst ca which has a highway flasher which i bileive has a transport corpooration products base!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1046125 ... authuser=0
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Well this sucks almost complete original griswold setup it still has rhe griswold pedestal gates and two Griswold mechanical crossing bells. What a rare sight these days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0954534 ... 312!8i6656

found another one it has two pedestal gates and a griswold mechanical bell and for some bizzare reason awch 0333 bell

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0771165 ... authuser=0

another two pedestal gates plus two freakin ebells what the :Censored: who installed this :Censored:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0553825 ... authuser=0

found one that was all original but the griswold bells were replaced with ebells it has 8- inch lights which were replaced but i ain't compaining as for some reason the 8-inch griswold lights were replaced with 8-inch safe tran lights.

four more

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9193593 ... authuser=0

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9250269 ... authuser=0

found another crossing that was seriously almoast all original had it not had an wch mechanical replaced one of the two griswold bells it would complete


https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8237715 ... authuser=0
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