Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
Active crossing on the NS Southern East District in Indiana:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.2983634 ... FQAw%3D%3D
Activating crossing in Illinois that Street View seemingly ran:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.3613646 ... FQAw%3D%3D
Another activating crossing on the NS Southern West District in Illinois:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.531601, ... FQAw%3D%3D
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.2983634 ... FQAw%3D%3D
Activating crossing in Illinois that Street View seemingly ran:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.3613646 ... FQAw%3D%3D
Another activating crossing on the NS Southern West District in Illinois:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.531601, ... FQAw%3D%3D
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
My first post on this forum!
Intact 45 degree crossbuck at a private crossing in Virginia
https://maps.app.goo.gl/sENKtTi1VyUwyoKf6?g_st=ac
A remaining pair of harmon buckeye crossbucks with tracks signs in the old NS Fairlane yard:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/h1nVVzpzpFGgbd9EA
WABCO triangle gate mechs:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/sxMhhFKD9DU9X8ox6?g_st=ac
Intact 45 degree crossbuck at a private crossing in Virginia
https://maps.app.goo.gl/sENKtTi1VyUwyoKf6?g_st=ac
A remaining pair of harmon buckeye crossbucks with tracks signs in the old NS Fairlane yard:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/h1nVVzpzpFGgbd9EA
WABCO triangle gate mechs:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/sxMhhFKD9DU9X8ox6?g_st=ac
Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
Nice finds, and welcome!4DBars wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 4:26 am My first post on this forum!
Intact 45 degree crossbuck at a private crossing in Virginia![]()
https://maps.app.goo.gl/sENKtTi1VyUwyoKf6?g_st=ac
A remaining pair of harmon buckeye crossbucks with tracks signs in the old NS Fairlane yard:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/h1nVVzpzpFGgbd9EA
WABCO triangle gate mechs:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/sxMhhFKD9DU9X8ox6?g_st=ac
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
Always neat when Google manages to catch a shortline crossing in action.grizzyyo wrote: Wed May 20, 2026 10:12 am First post here!:
Twin Falls, ID:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/SQYrnL77eYwraEwp7
(Jun 2019)
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
Active crossing in Brunswick, GA:
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.1353394 ... FQAw%3D%3D
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.1353394 ... FQAw%3D%3D
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Unique cantilever signal on an NS coal spur at Freeburn Kentucky: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.5641326 ... 92!5m1!1e4
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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
That signal honestly always reminds me of the one at 32nd Street in Birmingham, AL, TBH. I believe that one in Kentucky predates the one at 32nd Street though, and would've originally been installed by the N&W (whereas I think the one at 32nd Street was from the mid-90s?).luke wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2026 10:31 pm Unique cantilever signal on an NS coal spur at Freeburn Kentucky: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.5641326 ... 92!5m1!1e4
Nice to see it still retains a pair of its original 8 inch side lights!
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This is one very lonely boxcar. I wonder how long it's been sitting there:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/dk4xXzjRAC1KvNfA7
REALLY odd cantilever setup on a spur leading to Mare Island. The rails go through the middle of the drawbridge:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/BJfJ8vm7mY4Aj3XMA
https://maps.app.goo.gl/dk4xXzjRAC1KvNfA7
REALLY odd cantilever setup on a spur leading to Mare Island. The rails go through the middle of the drawbridge:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/BJfJ8vm7mY4Aj3XMA
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Looks like the trucks on it still have old "journal" bearings as well, so it'll've definitely been a very long time, that's for sure!4DBars wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 9:38 pm This is one very lonely boxcar. I wonder how long it's been sitting there:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/dk4xXzjRAC1KvNfA7
I think that's come-up a few times before, still a pretty bizarre one though.4DBars wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 9:38 pm REALLY odd cantilever setup on a spur leading to Mare Island. The rails go through the middle of the drawbridge:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/BJfJ8vm7mY4Aj3XMA
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