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Re: Tracks out of service
Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 10:29 pm
by SirKrunch
ToledoRailfan wrote:
Interesting how it was used by Iowa Traction Railway, I wonder if the railroad was electrified then. I don't think there are any more signaized crossings on the Iowa Traction Railroad.
Actually it's one you need to read about on the STB site. IATR never owned this line... it just kind of fell to them as the operator, even though they never operated over this trackage.
https://www.stb.gov/Decisions/readingro ... enDocument
This is the
crossing that all the hullabaloo was about.
Re: Tracks out of service
Posted: Sat May 06, 2017 5:43 am
by NathanFromEngland
SirKrunch wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:
Interesting how it was used by Iowa Traction Railway, I wonder if the railroad was electrified then. I don't think there are any more signaized crossings on the Iowa Traction Railroad.
Actually it's one you need to read about on the STB site. IATR never owned this line... it just kind of fell to them as the operator, even though they never operated over this trackage.
https://www.stb.gov/Decisions/readingro ... enDocument
This is the
crossing that all the hullabaloo was about.
I should've also mentioned, that Griswold crossing with the GM link i posted last night has a RRS mechanical bell.
Seems most RRS bells appear on defunct crossings.
Re: Tracks out of service
Posted: Sat May 06, 2017 12:28 pm
by freebrickproductions
NathanFromEngland wrote:SirKrunch wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:
Interesting how it was used by Iowa Traction Railway, I wonder if the railroad was electrified then. I don't think there are any more signaized crossings on the Iowa Traction Railroad.
Actually it's one you need to read about on the STB site. IATR never owned this line... it just kind of fell to them as the operator, even though they never operated over this trackage.
https://www.stb.gov/Decisions/readingro ... enDocument
This is the
crossing that all the hullabaloo was about.
I should've also mentioned, that Griswold crossing with the GM link i posted last night has a RRS mechanical bell.
Seems most RRS bells appear on defunct crossings.
I think I've stumbled across more RRS bells on active crossings than dead ones.
Re: Tracks out of service
Posted: Sat May 06, 2017 6:30 pm
by busman_49
cabman701 wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:NathanFromEngland wrote:Muffins! Every time i come across something interesting i always have to find out its being toasted. :(
It happens to all of us.
Agreed.
And just throwing my
out there... I don't think it hurts a bit to have things posted over again. Especially since some of these threads have been going on for 5 years + now. Yes, I know you can search for a specific post, but we have members that are brand new and can't possibly go through every single thing posted on here over the last 8 years. I doesn't hurt to re-visit things once in awhile.
OK... I'm off my pedestal now... carry on.
Re: Tracks out of service
Posted: Mon May 08, 2017 4:22 pm
by cabman701
Thought I would share this photo... it's off a Facebook page I follow. This signal is long gone, but was located on some tracks in Canada, just a little to the west of Niagara Falls. The tracks were pulled up sometime in the late 80's or early 90's according to the comments.
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Re: Tracks out of service
Posted: Mon May 08, 2017 4:38 pm
by ToledoRailfan
cabman701 wrote:Thought I would share this photo... it's off a Facebook page I follow. This signal is long gone, but was located on some tracks in Canada, just a little to the west of Niagara Falls. The tracks were pulled up sometime in the late 80's or early 90's according to the comments.
Oldie.jpg
I saw that photo. Pretty cool!
Re: Tracks out of service
Posted: Mon May 08, 2017 4:52 pm
by ZachL
Aw, I would have preserved that if I could.
Re: Tracks out of service
Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 9:53 am
by NathanFromEngland
cabman701 wrote:Thought I would share this photo... it's off a Facebook page I follow. This signal is long gone, but was located on some tracks in Canada, just a little to the west of Niagara Falls. The tracks were pulled up sometime in the late 80's or early 90's according to the comments.
Oldie.jpg
I've only just noticed, It doesn't have the Canadian style of crossbuck, instead its got Australias kind of saying for a railroad crossing!
Re: Tracks out of service
Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 10:03 am
by ToledoRailfan
NathanFromEngland wrote:cabman701 wrote:Thought I would share this photo... it's off a Facebook page I follow. This signal is long gone, but was located on some tracks in Canada, just a little to the west of Niagara Falls. The tracks were pulled up sometime in the late 80's or early 90's according to the comments.
Oldie.jpg
I've only just noticed, It doesn't have the Canadian style of crossbuck, instead its got Australias kind of saying for a railroad crossing!
Those were used before they switched to the crossbucks just with the red outline, except in Quebec where bi-lingual crossbucks were used where one crossbuck piece would be in English while the other would be in French. I'm not sure if bi-lingual crossbucks were used in New Brunswick.
Re: Tracks out of service
Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 8:38 pm
by ToledoRailfan
