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Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2016 5:03 pm**

This photo made me want to go take a look on Streetview. This is in Peru. Very American looking signals... all of them with WCH 12x20 lights!

3 gated signals at this crossing and 1 mast signal with lights. Plus, there a switch in the middle of all this too:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.648552 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.648552 ... 312!8i6656

Pretty "normal" crossing except that a few of the lights are aimed a bit weird:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.651222 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.657615 ... 312!8i6656

Here's another rather unusual intersection with 4 gates signals:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.641457 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.630122 ... 312!8i6656

No gates at this crossing, with a few of lights aimed a bit weird:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.625108 ... 312!8i6656

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2016 5:13 pm**

Pretty sure that this is on the forums already, but here's some interesting signals in Hawaii
https://www.google.com/maps/@21.3259472 ... 312!8i6656

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2016 5:15 pm**

cabman701 wrote:This photo made me want to go take a look on Streetview. This is in Peru. Very American looking signals... all of them with WCH 12x20 lights!

3 gated signals at this crossing and 1 mast signal with lights. Plus, there a switch in the middle of all this too:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.648552 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.648552 ... 312!8i6656

Pretty "normal" crossing except that a few of the lights are aimed a bit weird:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.651222 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.657615 ... 312!8i6656

Here's another rather unusual intersection with 4 gates signals:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.641457 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.630122 ... 312!8i6656

No gates at this crossing, with a few of lights aimed a bit weird:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.625108 ... 312!8i6656

It seems that several countries like copying U.S. crossing signals.

Australian and New Zealand signals already look identical enough already, now we've that Peru does the same thing too!

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2016 7:13 pm**

LARDLOGO wrote:Pretty sure that this is on the forums already, but here's some interesting signals in Hawaii
https://www.google.com/maps/@21.3259472 ... 312!8i6656

Yeah that has been on here

I do wonder though if there are any "normal" signals at all in the state.

For what it's worth though, even US territories (including Guam and American Samoa) follow through with the MUTCD, so it makes me wonder if any of the territories have US signals and crossbucks too.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2016 1:28 am**

Amtrak running through Ybor City in Tampa:
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9596761 ... 312!8i6656

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2016 1:39 am**

ZachL wrote:
LARDLOGO wrote:Pretty sure that this is on the forums already, but here's some interesting signals in Hawaii
https://www.google.com/maps/@21.3259472 ... 312!8i6656
Yeah that has been on here I do wonder though if there are any "normal" signals at all in the state.

I'm pretty sure that this one on the Lahaina, Kaanapali and Pacific Railroad is the only public crossing with "normal" signals in Hawaii. It also has Safetran type-1 bells which is a bonus!

https://www.google.com/maps/@20.8850006 ... 6656?hl=en

ZachL wrote: For what it's worth though, even US territories (including Guam and American Samoa) follow through with the MUTCD, so it makes me wonder if any of the territories have US signals and crossbucks too.

Puerto Rico is the only US territory with railways. There is this very strange yet interesting abandon signal in Puerto Rico. http://www.panoramio.com/photo/63441373
There is also this crossbuck (looks to be restored) that is also in English. http://www.panoramio.com/photo/48016030

And there is this one.

There is also this one which has an English SORS sign but is also missing it's crossbuck.
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/48016030

But there is also this modern crossbuck and a strange white advance warning sign that are both in Spanish (http://www.panoramio.com/photo/48520622, http://www.panoramio.com/photo/48128314), the line is abandon (I think it is the same line that has these two: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/48016030 , http://www.panoramio.com/photo/48016030), I wonder if the reason that these newer signs are in Spanish but the older ones are in English is because the older ones might be from when English was the sole official language of Puerto Rico while the newer ones were installed after Puerto Rico adopted Spanish as an official language. Kind of cool that there are crossbuck in our country (as well as other MUTCD road signs) that are exactly like the MUTCD ones used in the mainland but are in Spanish instead of English. Although most people in American Samoa speak Samoan, and Samoan is an official language along with English but road signs there are in English. The same is also true for the Northern Mariana Islands, most people there speak a Philippine language and Chamorro but signs there are also in English.

It also appears that WCH/WRRS motor bells were once common in Puerto Rico!

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2016 6:23 am**

https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.573896 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.573899 ... 6656?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.555876 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.555942 ... 6656?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.618444 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.618447 ... 6656?hl=en

These Spanish signals and Canadian crossbucks have been replaced by cheap gates and regular Chilean crossbucks.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2016 5:26 pm**

Active suburban Melbourne crossings in various 360-Panorama photos in GSV.

Koornang Road, Carnegie
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.886 ... 312!8i6656

Centre Road, Bentleigh
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.917 ... 312!8i6656

Charman Road, Cheltenham
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.967 ... 312!8i6656

Posted: **Thu Nov 24, 2016 11:06 pm**

Active crossing in Bomen, New South Wales:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-35.071 ... 328!8i1664

Seems this crossing might be manually activated:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-35.071 ... 328!8i1664

The setup also features a Teardrop Bell!:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-35.072 ... 328!8i1664

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:41 pm**

This crossing has an extra signal (without lights) for a trail that runs right next to the crossing, the only bell located on the crossing is on the extra signal instead of being on the main signals for the road itself, I thought that was pretty interesting. The bell is a Safetran type 1 bell which is a bonus!

I actually think I've posted this crossing here before as it looks familar.
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.5313915 ... 6656?hl=en
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This doesn't seem like a crossing that you would expect to be bell-less.
https://www.google.com/maps/@48.9048363 ... 6656?hl=en

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