Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

freebrickproductions wrote:The old cantilever is cool, but those mast lights look straight up ugly with how close they are on the new one.

Yeah... they're trying to use them as sidelights, but mounted the bracket as if they were going to point them forward.

ToledoRailfan wrote:Odd cantilevers and modern SORS signs outside of Michigan. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6040354 ... 6656?hl=en

Check out what used to be there... bet that one signal used to be a wig wag: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6040344 ... 1664?hl=en

Quite a complicated intersection in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The track splits off 2 ways with part of it turning into several blocks of street running. https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0603635 ... 6656?hl=en. Here is a view of a street running train (a few blocks down) in May 2015: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 469&nseq=5

Interesting photo from Pennsylvania in 1985, the tracks are sadly long gone: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 42&nseq=27

I don't think this was covered here before (at least, a search turned up zippo)...

A little bit of Canada has made its way to Attica, Ohio:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0627467 ... 56!6m1!1e1
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0628707 ... 56!6m1!1e1

busman_49 wrote:I don't think this was covered here before (at least, a search turned up zippo)...

A little bit of Canada has made its way to Attica, Ohio:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0627467 ... 56!6m1!1e1
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0628707 ... 56!6m1!1e1

Wow, and that's on an NS line of all railways. I think it'd be CN to do that instead. Nice catch!

ZachL wrote:

busman_49 wrote:I don't think this was covered here before (at least, a search turned up zippo)...

A little bit of Canada has made its way to Attica, Ohio:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0627467 ... 56!6m1!1e1
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0628707 ... 56!6m1!1e1

Wow, and that's on an NS line of all railways. I think it'd be CN to do that instead. Nice catch!

Those have been up there for quite some time, too. I got a picture of the eastbound sign back in 2005.

At the risk of multiple posts (sorry guys), this is on property in Delaware next to one of their railroad buildings:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3001446 ... 312!8i6656
Yikes!

busman_49 wrote:At the risk of multiple posts (sorry guys), this is on property in Delaware next to one of their railroad buildings:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3001446 ... 312!8i6656
Yikes!

That's just wrong in so many ways.

cabman701 wrote: Interesting photo from Pennsylvania in 1985, the tracks are sadly long gone: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 42&nseq=27

I don't think I've seen those types of crossbucks being used on a signal instead of being on their own. I'm surprised something like that would still be in use all the way into the 1980s.

busman_49 wrote:I don't think this was covered here before (at least, a search turned up zippo)...

A little bit of Canada has made its way to Attica, Ohio:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0627467 ... 56!6m1!1e1
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0628707 ... 56!6m1!1e1

I remember coming across those a while back on Google Steetview. I don't think that I posted them here though. I remember a couple years ago, someone posted Canadian 2 track signs on an American crossing that I think was also in Ohio. I'd like to know the story on how those signs got there.

freebrickproductions wrote:Here's a rather cool 8 inch crossing in Florida with three mechanical bells:
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.8417648 ... 312!8i6656

This crossing is just down from the display crossing I posted earlier in Pinellas Park, Florida. I stopped and snapped a few pictures of it as I was out running errands Saturday morning. The third gate is actually for a driveway for the back entrance to a police station. It is the only crossing that I know of along this line that still has all 8 inch lights.

I would love to see this in action, but there are at most only a few trains a week through here, and I believe mostly at night, so it may take awhile.