Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

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

Looks like a later L&N install there, and the mast lights were replaced by CSX in the 1980s.

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

Pretty classic crossing there as well.

ToledoRailfan wrote:

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!

Yeah, 93rd Avenue, the road this is on, is a pretty busy one. Not sure how I feel about them not taking the time to fix that.

Joosh wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:

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!

Yeah, 93rd Avenue, the road this is on, is a pretty busy one. Not sure how I feel about them not taking the time to fix that.

The line itself looks pretty busy.

freebrickproductions wrote:

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

Looks like a later L&N install there, and the mast lights were replaced by CSX in the 1980s.

I don't think this was an L&N install, as I don't think this was a former L&N line. I do know it's ex-Monon, but ex-L&N, I don't believe so.

ToledoRailfan wrote:

Joosh wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:

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!

Yeah, 93rd Avenue, the road this is on, is a pretty busy one. Not sure how I feel about them not taking the time to fix that.

The line itself looks pretty busy.

It's actually not really that busy, maybe up to 10 trains a day, max.

Joosh wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

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

Looks like a later L&N install there, and the mast lights were replaced by CSX in the 1980s.

I don't think this was an L&N install, as I don't think this was a former L&N line. I do know it's ex-Monon, but ex-L&N, I don't believe so.

The Monon got merged into the L&N in 1971. The install is probably from the late 70s to early 80s before the SCL merger in 1984.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monon_Railroad

Oh, okay. I wasn't aware that the Monon merged with the L&N.

Guess I got some learning to do.

Joosh wrote:Oh, okay. I wasn't aware that the Monon merged with the L&N.

Guess I got some learning to do.

Well I wasn't either until I looked it up. But I guess it makes sense, as I believe there's a former Monon line in Louisville, KY.

Does anyone remember this crossing? Here it is now.

Unfortunately the Trolleybus catenary is long gone!

Here are some active views of the crossing.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5507766 ... !1e1?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5508524 ... !1e1?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5508106 ... !1e1?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5507968 ... !1e1?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5510376 ... !1e1?hl=en

And here is Google running through a red light!
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5499869 ... !1e1?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5501787 ... !1e1?hl=en'
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5502625 ... !1e1?hl=en

This would have been another good April Fool's joke for a "scenic" crossing.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.027669, ... 6656?hl=en
Unbelievable!

This too:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0279601 ... 6656?hl=en
It's been in better (and worse) shape as well:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0279438 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0279607 ... 6656?hl=en