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YouTube · Fri Dec 04, 2015 9:21 pm

ToledoRailfan wrote: This is a cool crossing. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6061705 ... 6656?hl=en

Looks to have a mixture of GRS and cast-iron RACO 8 inch lights! Cool find!

ZachL wrote:
cabman701 wrote:
ZachL wrote:
cabman701 wrote:Wayside horns in Alaska:
https://www.google.com/maps/@61.1857346 ... 312!8i6656

It looks like this crossing is equipped for horns also, but I'm not finding the actual horns. Notice though it does have 12 inch Lex-C's... quite common in Alaska.
https://www.google.com/maps/@61.1880544 ... 312!8i6656

This one has both wayside horns and 12 inch Lex-C's!
https://www.google.com/maps/@61.1807195 ... 312!8i6656

Guess they thought one set of side lights wasn't enough. Notice this crossing has stand alone crossbucks as well for some reason on the main road.
https://www.google.com/maps/@61.1652698 ... 312!8i6656

Here's another crossing with the equipment for wayside horns (the flashing X's)... but don't see any horns.
https://www.google.com/maps/@61.1602575 ... 312!8i6656
Pretty sure those have all been somewhere on here before.
You have a much better memory than I do then... especially considering this thread is 109 pages and almost 6 years old!
Hey, I was bored when I first joined this site and looked through this thread (and forum) in its infancy. although back then this thread was just a fraction the size it is now haha

I think I posted all of those a few years back. Man how the time flies! I still remember it like it was yesterday. :LOL3:

Post by **ToledoRailfan** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 6:52 pm

YouTube · Sun Dec 06, 2015 12:21 am

ToledoRailfan wrote:Well..... This is something you don't see everyday. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1801679 ... 6656?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@41.180169, ... 6656?hl=en

That would probably go better in Tracks out of Service, but it's still a really neat find!

cabman701 · Post by **cabman701** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 2:21 pm

freebrickproductions wrote:Also has this odd gate arrangement. It appears that the quad-gates were added later than the pedestrian gates:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.5518908 ... 312!8i6656

There's a setup like that here in Florida somewhere. I think Millenniumforce posted a video of it.

Since the "exit" gates are delayed in going down, they have the ped gates there to "close" the sidewalk first, then the exit gate comes down after the normal delay. Definitely overkill though and a waste of equipment in my opinion... because someone can simply just walk around that little ped gate if they really wanted to.

ToledoRailfan wrote:Odd signal. https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2730594 ... 6656?hl=en

I'd like to know what this little sign says on both of the gates... too blurry to make it out though.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2730594 ... 6656?hl=en

cabman701 · Post by **cabman701** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 5:00 pm

Here's a real odd one:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5654049 ... 56!6m1!1e1

What's even more odd? The one gateless signal has been there awhile and used to have 8 inch lights:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5654039 ... 56!6m1!1e1

It appears this was a gateless crossing at one time and was upgraded to the one cantilever and gates and they just left that one signal there for some reason. Here is where the original signal on the other side once stood I'm guessing:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5655243 ... 312!8i6656

Here's a video I found with several trains at the crossing (at night) showing both those side by side signals operating:

YouTube · Tue Dec 08, 2015 5:38 pm

cabman701 wrote:Here's a real odd one:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5654049 ... 56!6m1!1e1

What's even more odd? The one gateless signal has been there awhile and used to have 8 inch lights:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5654039 ... 56!6m1!1e1

It appears this was a gateless crossing at one time and was upgraded to the one cantilever and gates and they just left that one signal there for some reason. Here is where the original signal on the other side once stood I'm guessing:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5655243 ... 312!8i6656

Here's a video I found with several trains at the crossing (at night) showing both those side by side signals operating:

I remember seeing that crossing as well. If I had to take a guess, the crew that was supposed to remove the old signals before the new ones were activated forgot to remove it.

Also, here's an odd place for a DOT tage:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9763203 ... 312!8i6656

brett nc railfanner · Wed Dec 09, 2015 12:27 pm

Nebo Dr, La Mesa, California
https://www.google.com/maps/place/La+Me ... fc!6m1!1e1

cabman701 · Post by **cabman701** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:55 am

Thought this was interesting... Tate, GA.

See the nice new signal on the left? Looks quite out of place with the two older signals. Also, take notice of the building off to the right: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4136781 ... 6656?hl=en.

Well take a look at this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4136464 ... 6656?hl=en

ZachL · Post by **ZachL** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 1:16 pm

cabman701 wrote:Thought this was interesting... Tate, GA.

See the nice new signal on the left? Looks quite out of place with the two older signals. Also, take notice of the building off to the right: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4136781 ... 6656?hl=en.

Well take a look at this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4136464 ... 6656?hl=en

Now that's just surreal. Why would they have needed to move that depot like that.

YouTube · Thu Dec 10, 2015 5:42 pm

ZachL wrote:
cabman701 wrote:Thought this was interesting... Tate, GA.

See the nice new signal on the left? Looks quite out of place with the two older signals. Also, take notice of the building off to the right: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4136781 ... 6656?hl=en.

Well take a look at this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4136464 ... 6656?hl=en
Now that's just surreal. Why would they have needed to move that depot like that.

Probably the city or a private investor wanted to restore the depot, but the railroad didn't want to sell the land the depot was on.

Also, here are a couple of classic 8 inch crossings along a street-running segment on the NYSW in Utica, NY:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0980341 ... 312!8i6656
This one also has a rather odd signal, as I don't really see the need for an extra pair of lights:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0981521 ... 312!8i6656

This one also has some nice old 8 inch Crouse-hinds Type-M signals at it:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1057483 ... 312!8i6656

This one has a newer Safetran 12 inch signal at it as well, but it also has some nice old Crouse-hinds Art-deco signals at it too:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1061535 ... 312!8i6656

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