i know that i was stating that those are the crossings i would consider my childhood crossings
Re: Childhood Crossings...
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 5:16 pm
by ZachL
dan the ca railfan wrote:i know that i was stating that those are the crossings i would consider my childhood crossings
well yeah, but other readers might not know that they're on the site
Re: Childhood Crossings...
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 5:29 pm
by dan the ca railfan
ZachL wrote:
dan the ca railfan wrote:i know that i was stating that those are the crossings i would consider my childhood crossings
well yeah, but other readers might not know that they're on the site
good point!i never thought of that.
Re: Childhood Crossings...
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 6:30 am
by Swedish Crossings
My favourite was the one my grandma lived close to, i still sometimes go there (if you watch my channel) It is Kvarnvägen (Mill Street in English) in Korsträsk ( wich translates to Crosswamp )
It has only had one pair of lights replaced, the rest is original https://www.google.se/maps/@65.6660506, ... 6656?hl=sv
Still is my favourite to this day
The one in my hometown was my favourite until it got upgraded in 2009
Re: Childhood Crossings...
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:18 am
by trainman7
My all time favourite crossing growing up would have to be Station Ln, Lochinvar. https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/23 ... 877512934a
I saw this crossing activate every weekend and the sounds of the two m-bells (WCH and Federal Signal) is something I will always remember!
Sadly this crossing was removed in mid 2012.
Re: Childhood Crossings...
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 10:49 am
by ZachL
trainman7 wrote:My all time favourite crossing growing up would have to be Station Ln, Lochinvar. https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/23 ... 877512934a
I saw this crossing activate every weekend and the sounds of the two m-bells (WCH and Federal Signal) is something I will always remember!
Sadly this crossing was removed in mid 2012.
Why was it removed? That looks like a fairly rural area to me...
Re: Childhood Crossings...
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:05 pm
by trainman7
ZachL wrote:
trainman7 wrote:My all time favourite crossing growing up would have to be Station Ln, Lochinvar. https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/23 ... 877512934a
I saw this crossing activate every weekend and the sounds of the two m-bells (WCH and Federal Signal) is something I will always remember!
Sadly this crossing was removed in mid 2012.
Why was it removed? That looks like a fairly rural area to me...
The crossing was removed because they added a third track and so they felt the need to replace it with an overpass. A bit overkill considering the road might see 15-20 cars a day. Although in the months leading up to its closure, there were around 100 trains (mainly coal) per day.
The blue house across the tracks on the right was my grandmothers. Spent a lot of time there, especially during the summer growing up. The tracks don't see much use these days, but they are still active.
My brother and I caught the crossing in action back in 2009. Sorry for the shaky camera... it was freezing out and I forgot my tripod.
yes i have seen and heard this crossing many times with the last time a saw it in action being a malfunction!
also the two e-bells are general signals type 2 e-bells
Re: Childhood Crossings...
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2018 2:38 pm
by NathanFromEngland
cabman701 wrote:
ZachL wrote:Not a single crossing in particular that I was close to, but these crossings were ones I always saw going to my grandmother's house growing up, and I still pass by them on occasion to this day:
They were removed in the summer of 2012, back when the Nebraska Ave. crossing was upgraded, and that's also when all of the crossings (except the Busch Blvd. crossing) got LEDs.
The Busch Blvd. crossing got LEDs sometime between 2008 and 2011, and the crossing as a whole was upgraded in the late 1990s. It used to have either those older WCH/FS/WRRS cantilevers or Safetran/Griswold "fence" cantilevers before what it looks like now. I only vaguely remember its old layout.
It's so cool that I've lived here long enough (2.5 years almost) that I have seen all these crossings in person. Now I just need to catch a train at one of them. Not easy to do apparently...
I did catch Amtrak in Ybor City back in January, and I know the CSX tracks are quite active southeast of downtown. I just don't have a lot of time to venture that way.
Is that the CSX bottle spur i brought up a while ago? My tablet isn't opening the links for the GSV app. Might be OOS now, since my side i looked at seemed overgrown but it feels like there is a siding from my 4th story hotel room which doesn't look overgrown. I'm at the hotel at the 30th street crossing (Hyatt Place)
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