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Since when do you see an f-unit on google street view

lisle st rockland maine

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.1010026 ... 6656?hl=en

dan the ca railfan wrote:Since when do you see an f-unit on google street view

lisle st rockland maine

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.1010026 ... 6656?hl=en

That's a Maine Eastern F-Unit, the Maine Eastern operated from 2003 to the end of 2015, when it was succeeded by the recently formed Central Maine & Quebec Railway. They were the successors to the Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic Railway who filed for bankruptcy in August 2013 following a deadly derailment the following month in the town of Lac-Megantic in Quebec

Sorry for a pretty unnessecary history lesson.

this cross buck has sure seen better days

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8658713 ... 312!8i6656

Odd bell replacement.
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.4305473 ... 1664?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.4305393 ... 6656?hl=en

A nice 1970's CR installation, which appears to have recieved a good paint restoration.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7904348 ... 6656?hl=en
...I wasn't expecting this
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6841641 ... 1664?hl=en
Odd...
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6107012 ... 6656?hl=en
Active crossing
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5780777 ... 6656?hl=en
WCH 7 inch gate lights!
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5648422 ... 6656?hl=en

NathanFromEngland wrote:A nice 1970's CR installation, which appears to have recieved a good paint restoration.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7904348 ... 6656?hl=en

Want to say that's a pretty typical all-WCH install on the MBTA.

Found quad cross buck railroad crossing

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1467323 ... authuser=0

dan the ca railfan wrote:Found quad cross buck railroad crossing

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1467323 ... authuser=0

That is weird. Don't really even see any visibility issues on the road that's make the extra crossbucks necessary.

My best guess is that the road is pretty straight with a high speed limit (or traffic tends to travel fast along it) with few required stops, and since that crossing has stop signs, they posted extra crossbucks in hopes that the drives would see them and stop.

I feel like this GS bell is discoloured...
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.8189715 ... authuser=0
Faded crossbucks
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.8158417 ... authuser=0
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.8161509 ... authuser=0
MOW equipment at rest.
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.8164525 ... authuser=0
Western Pacific hoppers! Wonder what is being loaded into them.
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.8212568 ... authuser=0
Has this gate light been taped?
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9711132 ... authuser=0
WCH clear LEDS!
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0176708 ... authuser=0
Crooked gate?
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0322411 ... authuser=0
...Is this an FRA violation?
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0335966 ... authuser=0
Why are these stop signs in the most oddest of places?
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0338503 ... authuser=0
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0338503 ... authuser=0
In 2008, this crossing had a WABCO AL-70!
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0327365 ... authuser=0
Sadly, it's gone now.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0327457 ... authuser=0

NathanFromEngland wrote:I feel like this GS bell is discoloured...
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.8189715 ... authuser=0

Probably starting to fade, or have the paint coming off of it, as a lot of older General Signals e-bells do.

NathanFromEngland wrote: ...Is this an FRA violation?
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0335966 ... authuser=0

No.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0336553 ... authuser=0