Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

ToledoRailfan wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:

ZachL wrote:

cabman701 wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote: Yellow stripes!?

Maybe due to it being an exit gate? The other exit gate is the same way:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4281847 ... 312!8i6656
I do agree that it's very strange though. Wonder why they'd do something like that?

I agree with the exit gate theory. Interesting idea actually.

Did anyone move forward a little?
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4282204 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4282608 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4283254 ... 312!8i6656

Nice catch there!

Why would those gates even be there? Is that an FRA violation, or maybe something recent? I doubt recent though because of the parallelogram (versus rectangular) striping.

Yea, ignoring how some of the gates had yellow instead of white stripes it is pretty odd to see Quad-gate setups on a small regional class 2/3.

Must be a quiet zone.

That makes sense, still pretty odd though.

So it appears (if it is due to a quiet zone) it is specifically for that crossing? The next crossings up in both directions are just 2 signals. Maybe because the quad crossing is right next to some homes?

I just noticed also... there is another crossing with the yellow exit gates:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4512195 ... 312!8i6656

This sign confirms that it is a quiet zone:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4512238 ... 312!8i6656

Here's another one:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.455611, ... 312!8i6656

cabman701 wrote:I just noticed also... there is another crossing with the yellow exit gates:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4512195 ... 312!8i6656

Here's another one:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.455611, ... 312!8i6656

I think there were a couple more on that line.

Kind of interesting.
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This crossing is located right in front of a border crossing!
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Another crossing in front of a border crossing.

ToledoRailfan wrote:Kind of interesting.
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This crossing is located right in front of a border crossing!
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Another crossing in front of a border crossing.

That first one is likely due to visibility; not only is it on a hill, but there are trees in the way as well.

That third one is interesting! I wonder why the lights on the cantilever are center/right instead of left/right.

ZachL wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:Kind of interesting.
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This crossing is located right in front of a border crossing!
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Another crossing in front of a border crossing.

That first one is likely due to visibility; not only is it on a hill, but there are trees in the way as well.

That third one is interesting! I wonder why the lights on the cantilever are center/right instead of left/right.

Maybe there use to be another set of lights there.

ToledoRailfan wrote:

ZachL wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:Kind of interesting.
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This crossing is located right in front of a border crossing!
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Another crossing in front of a border crossing.

That first one is likely due to visibility; not only is it on a hill, but there are trees in the way as well.

That third one is interesting! I wonder why the lights on the cantilever are center/right instead of left/right.

Maybe there use to be another set of lights there.

I was thinking the same, but I wonder why they'd need to be removed...

ZachL wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:

ZachL wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:Kind of interesting.
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This crossing is located right in front of a border crossing!
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Another crossing in front of a border crossing.

That first one is likely due to visibility; not only is it on a hill, but there are trees in the way as well.

That third one is interesting! I wonder why the lights on the cantilever are center/right instead of left/right.

Maybe there use to be another set of lights there.

I was thinking the same, but I wonder why they'd need to be removed...

Maybe they thought one was only necessary, maybe at one point two sets were needed.

Older-style cantilevers
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2911011 ... 312!8i6656

Classic gateless masts
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4468471 ... 312!8i6656

This one is leaning pretty bad
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4499472 ... 312!8i6656

EDIT: Oh, and on the subject of quiet zones
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5227565 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5372281 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5264066 ... 312!8i6656

Joosh wrote: This one is leaning pretty bad
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4499472 ... 312!8i6656

That crossing looks like it gets a lot of traffic too!