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ZachL · Post by **ZachL** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 5:37 pm

TrickyMario7654 wrote:
ToledoRailfan wrote:Railway employee shutting a gate on a hand operated crossing in Llanfairpwllgwyngyll. https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2208144 ... 6656?hl=en
The full town name is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch BTW.

Pronunciation guide!

Post by **ToledoRailfan** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 6:13 pm

ZachL wrote:
TrickyMario7654 wrote:
ToledoRailfan wrote:Railway employee shutting a gate on a hand operated crossing in Llanfairpwllgwyngyll. https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2208144 ... 6656?hl=en
The full town name is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch BTW.
Pronunciation guide!

Gotta love those Welsh names!

The name in English is Mary's house in the hollow of the white hazel rapid whirlpool at the church of the red cave. The majority of the people in this village speak Welsh.

TrickyMario7654 · Post by **TrickyMario7654** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 8:40 pm

This crossing on a spur that leads to Sim Metals has a bit of an interesting setup...
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.809 ... 312!8i6656
The crossing has a General Signals E-Bell.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.809 ... 312!8i6656
The 'Stop On Red Signal' sign looks slightly different from what I usually see.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.809 ... 312!8i6656
It's pretty interesting on how the lights are set up on this signal.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.809 ... 312!8i6656
For some reason, it's also got traffic preemption lights. I don't see the point of that...
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.808 ... 312!8i6656
This is also only one of few crossings I've seen to have a Cantilever setup, but no gates.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.809 ... 312!8i6656
Also, this crossing obviously had a second track at one point...
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.808 ... 312!8i6656

This Sim Metal siding is also the same place where they scarped various Hitachi EMU carriages between 2003-2005. This video shows off one of those transfers as well as this crossing in action (See 5:58). At the time, the crossing had Westinghouse Hybrid bells instead of the GS E-Bells currently seen on the crossing. The six-car set Hitachi seen in the video is 92M-1976T-18M-150M-1967T-182M (M meaning Motor car & T meaning Trailer car). Ian Green from Vicsig has a picture of 92M (one of the cars in the set) about be cut up.

If you ask me about this, I'll tell you that this is a total waste of a train as each of these carriages weren't really that old...

92M: Entered service 1976
1976T: Entered service as 362D (D meaning Driving trailer) in 1977, converted to 1976T in 1980
18M: Entered service 1974
150M: Entered service 1978
1967T: Entered service as 363D in 1977, converted to 1967T in c.1979/80
182M: Entered service 1979

In the end, Melbourne's rail network suffered from a train shortage several years later all because of the stupid decision to scarp all but seven six-car Hitachi sets just because they ordered newer trains that have air-conditioning (which the Hitachi's lack, even then, the Hitachi trains were still very reliable).

chris96 · Post by **chris96** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 6:14 am

TrickyMario7654 wrote: For some reason, it's also got traffic preemption lights. I don't see the point of that...
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.808 ... 312!8i6656

The preemption lights are used to stop cars from banking up over the tracks. If the lights were only positioned over the other side of the tracks, cars would have to stop in the middle of the tracks and would surely lead to confusion.

Also, it appears the Westinghouse bell was replaced between 2008 and 2009:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.808 ... 328!8i1664

There's an interesting cantilever setup just down the road, and oddly enough, it still has Hybrid Bells!:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.809 ... 312!8i6656

And further down the line, this crossing had a Teardrop in 2008:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.796 ... 328!8i1664

cabman701 · Post by **cabman701** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 1:27 pm

TrickyMario7654 wrote:I wonder why the crossbuck sticks out like that?
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.771 ... 312!8i6656

This would be my guess: https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.771 ... 312!8i6656

YouTube · Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:49 pm

Here's a pair of really old ACL signals in Georgia:
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0138354 ... 312!8i6656

Looks like a train is waiting in the siding here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0467082 ... 312!8i6656

Oops!
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.051727, ... 312!8i6656

Here's another old signal:
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0870032 ... 312!8i6656

RACO 12x20 inch lights!
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.1390343 ... 312!8i6656

A pair of old ACL cantilevers:
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.1393952 ... 328!8i1664

Unfortunately, the CSX Dothan Sub, which this line is on, gets barely any use anymore.

TrickyMario7654 · Post by **TrickyMario7654** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 3:56 pm

chris96 wrote: There's an interesting cantilever setup just down the road, and oddly enough, it still has Hybrid Bells!:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.809 ... 312!8i6656

Woah! I never noticed that! Nice find...

cabman701 wrote:This would be my guess: https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.771 ... 312!8i6656

I didn't see the nearby bus stop, thanks for answering my question.

Post by **ToledoRailfan** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 6:03 pm

YouTube · Mon Sep 19, 2016 6:26 pm

TrickyMario7654 · Post by **TrickyMario7654** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 7:10 pm

A pedestrian crossing barrier that's red and white instead of the usual yellow at Murray Road, Preston.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.737 ... 312!8i6656

Sadly, they've since replaced it with pedestrian gates.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.737 ... 312!8i6656

There's also one at the McGregor Road, Pakenham too. Thankfully it's still there.

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