Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

[IanMP]

Here's some unusual crossing signals from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Notice how these lights, crossbucks, and # track signs are connected on an overhead wire instead of a cantilever

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3938558 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3940021 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3941639 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3936966 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3925179 ... 312!8i6656

Backwards crossbuck:


https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3936966 ... 312!8i6656

Active crossing:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3917873 ... 312!8i6656

Rectangle junction box with square edges?
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3920455 ... 312!8i6656

What are those stop signs for?
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3944973 ... 312!8i6656

Theres also some RSI light heads
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.395853, ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3697012 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2945694 ... 312!8i6656

Interesting extension
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4107141 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3639919 ... 312!8i6656

Nice signals
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3324214 ... 312!8i6656

Kinda weird
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3010648 ... 312!8i6656

[freebrickproductions]

Rectangle junction box with square edges?
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3920455 ... 312!8i6656

WABCO junction box and lights there!

[cabman701]

Interesting extension
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4107141 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3639919 ... 312!8i6656

Off of that 2nd link, lights and a crossbuck attached to a telephone pole: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3637881 ... 312!8i6656

One signal wonder with a gate and a black SORS sign: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3653071 ... 328!8i1664

[NathanFromEngland]

Strange crossing installation. And yes, this is the location of the 2015 UP Train-car collision.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@38.1938 ... 312!8i6656
Why are the bases too long?
Why is this light have an extension attached to it and raised?
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@38.1938 ... 312!8i6656
Is that a GS Type 3 E-Bell?
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@38.1940 ... 312!8i6656

[ToledoRailfan]

I'm confused.
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9234212 ... 6656?hl=en

[freebrickproductions]

Strange crossing installation. And yes, this is the location of the 2015 UP Train-car collision.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@38.1938 ... 312!8i6656
Why are the bases too long?

Used to be some nice gateless signals there with 12x20 inch Lex-C lights and a Safetran mechanical bell (along with one Safetran 12x24). The one mast is that tall due to how long the gate is.

Why is this light have an extension attached to it and raised?
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@38.1938 ... 312!8i6656

To better angle the lights to make them more visible coming around the curve, along with keeping the lights out of the way of the gate. The raised part is due to how the extension pieces are made. The old signal had a similar set-up:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@38.1939 ... 312!8i6656

Is that a GS Type 3 E-Bell?
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@38.1940 ... 312!8i6656

Probably, but no way of knowing for sure without hearing it.

[ZachL]

Strange crossing installation. And yes, this is the location of the 2015 UP Train-car collision.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@38.1938 ... 312!8i6656
Why are the bases too long?

Used to be some nice gateless signals there with 12x20 inch Lex-C lights and a Safetran mechanical bell (along with one Safetran 12x24). The one mast is that tall due to how long the gate is.

Even though the GRS Lex-C lights are gone, this is a change I actually fully endorse. The accident that happened there was just too frightening to see on camera, and if I were there with those other three railfans, I would have probably been forever traumatized by the event as well.

[ToledoRailfan]

Strange crossing installation. And yes, this is the location of the 2015 UP Train-car collision.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@38.1938 ... 312!8i6656
Why are the bases too long?

Used to be some nice gateless signals there with 12x20 inch Lex-C lights and a Safetran mechanical bell (along with one Safetran 12x24). The one mast is that tall due to how long the gate is.

Even though the GRS Lex-C lights are gone, this is a change I actually fully endorse.

I agree, the change was for the best.

[NathanFromEngland]

Probably been posted before.
Active crossing in Huntsville, AL.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7342415 ... 328!8i1664
Because of how fuzzy the image is, the Safetran 12x24 looks like it has LED's installed in them!
Hold your horses, is that a Conrail unit?
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6130976 ... 328!8i1664
I wonder if this crossing used to be passive back in the day.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6062852 ... 312!8i6656
The sun is shining into the lenses on these lights!
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6074291 ... 312!8i6656

[ToledoRailfan]

Hold your horses, is that a Conrail unit?
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6130976 ... 328!8i1664

Yep! I don't think they were too uncommon ten years ago.

I wonder if this crossing used to be passive back in the day.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6062852 ... 312!8i6656

Maybe, it looks like it could have been. That crossing is on the site. Looks like they tried putting a new stop sign onto an old one! It is also an FRA violation to have stop signs at signalized crossings. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6061811 ... 312!8i6656

The sun is shining into the lenses on these lights!
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6074291 ... 312!8i6656

Looks like the light is coming from the side opens of the lights.