Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

freebrickproductions wrote:

TrickyMario7654 wrote:Active level crossing near Warragul, VIC.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-38.144 ... 312!8i6656

That's an odd signal...
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-38.144 ... 312!8i6656

Congratulations, you just made the 10,000th post.

The thread is called "Google Maps Scavenger Hunt" so why not post something people have to hunt for?

Can you find the crossing remnant?


Anyways to make up for that I found some weird 45 Cross bucks on an old piece of CNJ Track that has been abandoned for some time.


Almost looks like there would be a bell on top at this crossing.
I would assume maybe lights aswell. A majority of this line (in the abandoned locations) has plenty of 8 in lights.

Active pedestrian crossing in Rosanna, Victoria.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.736 ... 312!8i6656

NathanFromEngland wrote:Active pedestrian crossing in Rosama, Victoria.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.736 ... 312!8i6656

You misspelled the town name. It's "Rosanna", not "Rosama".

TrickyMario7654 wrote:

NathanFromEngland wrote:Active pedestrian crossing in Rosama, Victoria.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.736 ... 312!8i6656

You misspelled the town name. It's "Rosanna", not "Rosama".

Fixed.

This is some interesting railroad preemption, i guess the amber light comes on and switches to red. Or the amber light starts flashing and then the lights change to red.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.674 ... 312!8i6656

Erik-Gorb-Hamilton wrote: I would assume maybe lights aswell. A majority of this line (in the abandoned locations) has plenty of 8 in lights.

Probably not as it was very uncommon for signals to have 45 degree crossbucks, and those also look to be just posts and not signals.

Joosh wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:

Joosh wrote: Three pairs of lights on the front of this signal?
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.485073, ... 312!8i6656

These lights are for this, and these lights are for this. Still pretty odd and interesting though.

Yeah, that was the only thing I could think of for the extra lights. A lot of the crossing signals on that line seemed to have extra pairs of lights for nearby driveways and other pathways people could drive on.

I just now noticed this, it looks like they had a lot of rain a bit before streetview came through back in September of 2008!
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4850988 ... 328!8i1664
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4850988 ... 328!8i1664

Erik-Gorb-Hamilton wrote:The thread is called "Google Maps Scavenger Hunt" so why not post something people have to hunt for?

Can you find the crossing remnant?
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https://www.google.com/maps/@39.3634164 ... 312!8i6656

IanMP wrote:

Erik-Gorb-Hamilton wrote:The thread is called "Google Maps Scavenger Hunt" so why not post something people have to hunt for?

Can you find the crossing remnant?
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https://www.google.com/maps/@39.3634164 ... 312!8i6656

Good Stuff! Supposedly this is a Sacramento Northern remnant.

ToledoRailfan wrote:

Erik-Gorb-Hamilton wrote: I would assume maybe lights aswell. A majority of this line (in the abandoned locations) has plenty of 8 in lights.

Probably not as it was very uncommon for signals to have 45 degree crossbucks, and those also look to be just posts and not signals.

I figured as such cause these crossbucks seem to be newer then the ones I usually find. Most ones I have found are wood posts where as this one is a metal post (Which i have never seen before)

When did the railroads stop using 45 Degree crossbucks as the standard?

I wonder if this cantilever is still operational.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@28.53113 ... 312!8i6656

GS Type 3?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@28.53102 ... 312!8i6656