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Some abandoned SOU cantilevers with Lex-C lights on one of the masts in Greensboro, NC:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0762835 ... FQAw%3D%3D

EDIT: More dead signals in Elizabeth City, NC:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.2978849 ... FQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.2980389 ... FQAw%3D%3D

This one had cantilevers, but all that's left now is the relay case and a foundation:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.2952945 ... FQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.28234,- ... FQAw%3D%3D

Just another relay case here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.2404762 ... FQAw%3D%3D

A different spur in Elizabeth City:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.3162343 ... FQAw%3D%3D
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Some out of service Southern Railway-era Safetran signals from the 1970s in Goldsboro, NC:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3729729 ... FQAw%3D%3D

Just to the west is this 2000s NS install that's also OOS:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3757742 ... FQAw%3D%3D

This OOS spur crossing in Salisbury, NC, features a pair of gateless cantilevers at it:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.6422664 ... FQAw%3D%3D

Abandoned SOU branch line in New London, NC, with a pair of 70s SOU signals at it:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.4256537 ... FQAw%3D%3D

These 70s SOU signals further east also appear to be OOS, even though the crossing is still only "used" for car storage:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.4434986 ... FQAw%3D%3D

On a different leg of the branch, you can find these OOS 90s NS signals:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3982433 ... FQAw%3D%3D

Some gateless 90s NS cantilevers further south:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3722746 ... FQAw%3D%3D
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An abandoned crossing on a branch line off of the S Line in Richmond, VA, that still retains a WABCO bell!
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3917354 ... FQAw%3D%3D
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Here's some OOS signals in Prenter, WV:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.0125934 ... FQAw%3D%3D

Some more dead signals, featuring a stripped-out relay case, Montcoal, WV:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.9281558 ... FQAw%3D%3D

Abandoned branch line in Huntington, WV:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4149554 ... FQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4162961 ... FQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4176705 ... FQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4190452 ... FQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4202065 ... FQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4236,-8 ... FQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4239914 ... FQAw%3D%3D
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Re: Tracks out of service

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Wow. So these crossings have been sitting untouched without Exempt or Tracks Out Of Service signs all this time? CSX pulled up the tracks somewhere between 2019 and 2021.
That's sloppy, and I feel sorry for anyone driving something that requires a stop at any active rail crossing. By the book, these are still technically active without exempt/TOOS. C'mon CSX. Bag or remove the signals at least.
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SirKrunch wrote: Sat May 09, 2026 4:47 pm Wow. So these crossings have been sitting untouched without Exempt or Tracks Out Of Service signs all this time? CSX pulled up the tracks somewhere between 2019 and 2021.
That's sloppy, and I feel sorry for anyone driving something that requires a stop at any active rail crossing. By the book, these are still technically active without exempt/TOOS. C'mon CSX. Bag or remove the signals at least.
Yeah. There were a few on an out-of-service Union Pacific spur line in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that were like that for over 10 years before the signals were finally removed. I think *one* of them ight have had exempt signs under the advance warning signs, but not on the signals themselves.

https://www.rxrsignals.com/Wisconsin/L- ... /Hampton1/

https://www.rxrsignals.com/Wisconsin/L- ... ee/Lydell/

https://www.rxrsignals.com/Wisconsin/L- ... ukee/Erie/

https://www.rxrsignals.com/Wisconsin/L- ... kee/Water/

This crossing on another spur line was like that for a while as well, then when one of the signals was removed they added a OOS sign on a post in front of the other, remaining signal, but there appears to be *nothing* on the other side!

https://www.rxrsignals.com/Wisconsin/L- ... /Oklahoma/
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Abandoned crossing in Liberty Center, Ohio. It has a US&S teardrop bell! It was last used by the Napoleon, Defiance, & Western for car storage:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/KjMrFXx35b37m1eXA?g_st=ac

Going into 2013, the lights, and crossbucks on both signals are gone, and the teardrop bell remains:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/FoDqwcqiMT9aLkEFA?g_st=ac
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4DBars wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 8:11 am Abandoned crossing in Liberty Center, Ohio. It has a US&S teardrop bell! It was last used by the Napoleon, Defiance, & Western for car storage:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/KjMrFXx35b37m1eXA?g_st=ac

Going into 2013, the lights, and crossbucks on both signals are gone, and the teardrop bell remains:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/FoDqwcqiMT9aLkEFA?g_st=ac
Gone by 2018 unfortunately, and tracks removed by 2024.
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4DBars wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 8:11 am Abandoned crossing in Liberty Center, Ohio. It has a US&S teardrop bell! It was last used by the Napoleon, Defiance, & Western for car storage:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/KjMrFXx35b37m1eXA?g_st=ac

Going into 2013, the lights, and crossbucks on both signals are gone, and the teardrop bell remains:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/FoDqwcqiMT9aLkEFA?g_st=ac
I have now just found out that that has already been posted in this forum before :oops:

2 abandoned crossings in Bastrop, Louisiana. It was a former MoPac spur:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/N3khXhuocD8AeoZV6?g_st=ac

https://maps.app.goo.gl/bo634Qch5kMFm64h6?g_st=ac
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