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Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 6:17 pm
by freebrickproductions
cabman701 wrote:
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.
Glad to see it's still there!
Here's an active crossing in Rockmart, GA:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0008286 ... 312!8i6656
Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 7:33 pm
by ToledoRailfan
Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 9:07 pm
by freebrickproductions
Pretty neat little mining railroad there. That appears to be their only crossing.
Based on the rust and plants though, I'd say the crossing doesn't get much use.
I wonder who made those lights though...
UP does that now.
Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 9:17 pm
by ToledoRailfan
freebrickproductions wrote:
Pretty neat little mining railroad there. That appears to be their only crossing.
Based on the rust and plants though, I'd say the crossing doesn't get much use.
I wonder who made those lights though...
I think the line is abandon.
freebrickproductions wrote:
UP does that now.
Do they do it for improvement of sound?
Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:13 pm
by cabman701
ToledoRailfan wrote:freebrickproductions wrote:
Pretty neat little mining railroad there. That appears to be their only crossing.
Based on the rust and plants though, I'd say the crossing doesn't get much use.
I wonder who made those lights though...
I think the line is abandon.
Did you guys see this factory down the road a bit? The tracks appear to be severed here.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6943679 ... 312!8i6656
Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 2:46 pm
by freebrickproductions
cabman701 wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:freebrickproductions wrote:
Pretty neat little mining railroad there. That appears to be their only crossing.
Based on the rust and plants though, I'd say the crossing doesn't get much use.
I wonder who made those lights though...
I think the line is abandon.
Did you guys see this factory down the road a bit? The tracks appear to be severed here.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6943679 ... 312!8i6656
Well that's a shame. That looks liek it would've been a neat operation to see in use.
Also, here's a classic crossing in Troy, NY:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7083543 ... 6ZeDOw!2e0
Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 11:26 pm
by ZachL
Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 11:36 am
by Trainzmandude2012
Had to hold these while rxrsignal's domain was being changed:
New Hope & Ivyland Railroad 2198 @ Reeder Road, New Hope, PA
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3528506 ... 312!8i6656
NJT Pascack Valley Line:
County Road 46, Nanuet, NY
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0868649 ... 312!8i6656
Linwood Ave, Emerson, NJ
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9753216 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9751971 ... 312!8i6656
That is pretty turned out of place (Lodi St, Hackensack, NJ)
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8752603 ... 312!8i6656
NJT Atlantic City Line:
NJ-50, Galloway, NJ
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5260649 ... 312!8i6656
Not exempt by any stretch (Atlantic City-Brigantine Connector, Atlantic City, NJ):
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.3639615 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2609724 ... 312!8i6656
Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 11:41 am
by busman_49
Exempt only means that school buses and hazardous materials carriers are not required to stop at those tracks. Often, it's placed on crossings where there is a high number of rear-end collisions involving a vehicle that was stopped for the crossing (bus, haz-mat vehicle). Exempt status is placed a lot of times on dead & out-of-service crossings, but that's not the only place they are used (was it ever the intent?)
Re: Google Maps Scavenger Hunt
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 1:26 pm
by cabman701
Did you notice between your two posts (active shot in 2011 to the newer shot in 2014) it gained a pedestrian gate?
They put the e-bell for this side on that gate and not on the main signal.
I've never seen a miniature crossbuck installed incorrectly before!