Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

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Family Lines Caboose, and a Vader signal that was surprisingly saved.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5647404 ... 312!8i6656

Crossing that was downgraded. :TDOWN:
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5646515 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5643577 ... 312!8i6656

Let's play... Find the pedestrian gate!
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5645189 ... 312!8i6656

Never knew the FCR used these.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.565939, ... 312!8i6656

How is the signal maintainer mean't to open the bell?
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5709,-8 ... 312!8i6656

More motor bells.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5703243 ... 312!8i6656

:Confused:
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5696671 ... 312!8i6656

Unusual light mounting.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5737864 ... 312!8i6656

Pedestrian signal, with a WCH bell.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5758772 ... 312!8i6656

WABCO bell!
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5848241 ... 312!8i6656
It's gone now.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5847924 ... 312!8i6656

Another WABCO setup, which may be gone now.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5911173 ... 312!8i6656
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NathanFromEngland wrote:Family Lines Caboose, and a Vader signal that was surprisingly saved.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5647404 ... 312!8i6656
That's not a Vader signal. :Wink:

Did you see that rotating banner signal?
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5647401 ... 312!8i6656
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NathanFromEngland wrote:Never knew the FCR used these.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.565939, ... 312!8i6656
Those were standard on all Florida railroads until the 1970s or 1980s
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NathanFromEngland wrote:More motor bells.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5703243 ... 312!8i6656
That is a mechanical bell not a motor bell
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NathanFromEngland wrote: How is the signal maintainer mean't to open the bell?
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5709,-8 ... 312!8i6656
*meant

And like any other mechanical bell, it's just the body and gong that move rather than the door.
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Active crossing in Lake City, Florida.
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.1974549 ... 6656?hl=en
Then for some reason, it activated again.
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.196794, ... 6656?hl=en
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Interesting sidelights in Pullman, Washington.
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.7322293 ... 312!8i6656

I thought that crossing was on a one-way road at first. Kind of an odd setup I guess.
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.7321857 ... 312!8i6656
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Interesting pedestrian crossing.
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.7355052 ... 312!8i6656
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NathanFromEngland wrote:Then for some reason, it activated again.
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.196794, ... 6656?hl=en
Likely a tail-ring activation.
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Active crossing in Fresno, California with wishbone gate!
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.7258239 ... 1664?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.7257015 ... 1664?hl=en

The gate has sense been removed.
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.7258006 ... 6656?hl=en
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ToledoRailfan wrote:Active crossing in Fresno, California with wishbone gate!
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.7258239 ... 1664?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.7257015 ... 1664?hl=en

The gate has sense been removed.
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.7258006 ... 6656?hl=en
And it's on the site too :TUP2:

http://www.rxrsignals.com/California/D- ... /VanNess1/
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