Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

TrickyMario7654 wrote:Some disused crossings in Houston, TX (they appeared to have still been in service in 2007). Plenty of 8-inch Safetran signals too!
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@29.7622 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@29.7637 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@29.7652 ... 312!8i6656

The first one listed has since been removed, but the others are likely still intact.

Notice that the second one has the broken remains of a General Signals e-bell on one of the signals!

Erik-Gorb-Hamilton wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:

Ethan the Railfanner wrote:Remains of some Railroad Tracks in Carlisle, Ohio. Not much to be known about this abandoned railroad nowadays...
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5768996 ... 6656?hl=en

Just a former industrial spur that served this industry at one point. Nothing really much to know...
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5767128 ... 6656?hl=en

Looks like this line went on for quite a bit. The line appears to end in Germantown. Looks like it used to go farther.

Sometimes longer lines get shorted to just being industrial spurs. For example, this (abandoned) spur here in Huntsville used to be a connecting track to the (long abandoned) rail network on Redstone Arsenal:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.5905884 ... 312!8i6656

Same for this spur off of the NS Memphis District East End:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7056613 ... a=!3m1!1e3

And this industrial spur in Hartselle, AL is all that's left of a bypassed section of the original routing of the CSX S&NA North Sub:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4387843 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4387843 ... 312!8i6656

Out of service industrial spur in St. Thomas, Ontario.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.781499, ... 6656?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7814535 ... 6656?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7811965 ... 6656?hl=en

Out of service crossing in Philadelphia.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9027987 ... 6656?hl=en
Interestingly enough the tracks to the south of the crossing were almost free of vegetation in 2007.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9028121 ... 1664?hl=en
While in 2017 they were completely overgrown.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9028062 ... 6656?hl=en
While the track north of the crossing did not exist in 2007.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9028226 ... 1664?hl=en
While in 2017 there was track there.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.902814, ... 6656?hl=en

The crossing also has new road markers.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9027321 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9029122 ... 6656?hl=en
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Here is another crossing in Philadelphia. This one has been paved over.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9036476 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9036494 ... 6656?hl=en

Out of service Alpine industrial spur to a power plant in Gantschier, Vorarlberg.
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.085216, ... 1254?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.0851475 ... 1254?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.0850442 ... 1254?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.0849936 ... 1254?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.0848823 ... 1254?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.0848217 ... 1254?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.0848001 ... 1254?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.0847995 ... 1254?hl=en

ToledoRailfan wrote:Here is another crossing in Philadelphia. This one has been paved over.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9036476 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9036494 ... 6656?hl=en

It's been resurfaced now.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9036494 ... 6656?hl=en

NathanFromEngland wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:Here is another crossing in Philadelphia. This one has been paved over.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9036476 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9036494 ... 6656?hl=en

It's been resurfaced now.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9036494 ... 6656?hl=en

No it hasn't... That would defeat the point of paving over it in the first place. And plus your link is to the crossing after it's been paved over.

Out of service crossings on a one-way road in Bedford, Indiana.
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8673966 ... 6656?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8684057 ... 6656?hl=en

Here's one with a cantilever signal.
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8669436 ... 6656?hl=en

Here is where the part of the line that is still in place ends. It'd be kinda cool to live next to a former right-of-way even if the tracks were removed. This was later converted into a rails-to-trails (not the part that still has the tracks in place).
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.868155, ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.868155, ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8681641 ... 6656?hl=en

Here is a cantilever crossing that has been paved over.
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.874338, ... 6656?hl=en

ToledoRailfan wrote:Bedford, Indiana

Wow, so did CSX just decide to scrap the rest of their line, and force IRR to give up the ghost as well, or what?

ToledoRailfan wrote: Here is a cantilever crossing that has been paved over.
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.874338, ... 6656?hl=en

Some maintenance action in 2008:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8742567 ... 1664?hl=en