Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

LARDLOGO wrote:CalTrain297 already posted a photo, but here's the GSV link for the former Teardrop on Busch Blvd in Tampa
https://goo.gl/maps/fUFo4mqBUTs

That one is looooong gone, by about five years now.

ZachL wrote:

LARDLOGO wrote:CalTrain297 already posted a photo, but here's the GSV link for the former Teardrop on Busch Blvd in Tampa
https://goo.gl/maps/fUFo4mqBUTs

That one is looooong gone, by about five years now.

Looks to have been a nice crossing originally with the cats-eyed crossbucks and 8 inch lights.

freebrickproductions wrote:

ZachL wrote:

LARDLOGO wrote:CalTrain297 already posted a photo, but here's the GSV link for the former Teardrop on Busch Blvd in Tampa
https://goo.gl/maps/fUFo4mqBUTs

That one is looooong gone, by about five years now.

Looks to have been a nice crossing originally with the cats-eyed crossbucks and 8 inch lights.

It definitely was! That crossing had the only cantilevers in that style around the whole area in addition to being the only spot to find cats-eyed crossbucks too.

ZachL wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ZachL wrote:

LARDLOGO wrote:CalTrain297 already posted a photo, but here's the GSV link for the former Teardrop on Busch Blvd in Tampa
https://goo.gl/maps/fUFo4mqBUTs

That one is looooong gone, by about five years now.

Looks to have been a nice crossing originally with the cats-eyed crossbucks and 8 inch lights.

It definitely was! That crossing had the only cantilevers in that style around the whole area in addition to being the only spot to find cats-eyed crossbucks too.

Yea, those WRRS cantilevers are getting hard to find these days...
Though at least y'all still have this old SAL install!
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9432393 ... 312!8i6656

freebrickproductions wrote:

ZachL wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ZachL wrote:

LARDLOGO wrote:CalTrain297 already posted a photo, but here's the GSV link for the former Teardrop on Busch Blvd in Tampa
https://goo.gl/maps/fUFo4mqBUTs

That one is looooong gone, by about five years now.

Looks to have been a nice crossing originally with the cats-eyed crossbucks and 8 inch lights.

It definitely was! That crossing had the only cantilevers in that style around the whole area in addition to being the only spot to find cats-eyed crossbucks too.

Yea, those WRRS cantilevers are getting hard to find these days...
Though at least y'all still have this old SAL install!
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9432393 ... 312!8i6656

The southern part of that line has little-to-no "CSX" installs on it, such as having these rounded Safetran "bridge" cantilevers!
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9418042 ... 312!8i6656

ZachL wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ZachL wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ZachL wrote:

LARDLOGO wrote:CalTrain297 already posted a photo, but here's the GSV link for the former Teardrop on Busch Blvd in Tampa
https://goo.gl/maps/fUFo4mqBUTs

That one is looooong gone, by about five years now.

Looks to have been a nice crossing originally with the cats-eyed crossbucks and 8 inch lights.

It definitely was! That crossing had the only cantilevers in that style around the whole area in addition to being the only spot to find cats-eyed crossbucks too.

Yea, those WRRS cantilevers are getting hard to find these days...
Though at least y'all still have this old SAL install!
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9432393 ... 312!8i6656

The southern part of that line has little-to-no "CSX" installs on it, such as having these rounded Safetran "bridge" cantilevers!
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9418042 ... 312!8i6656

And at least one RACO 12 inch light:
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9417994 ... 312!8i6656
Looks like a RACO bell too!
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9417979 ... 312!8i6656

freebrickproductions wrote:

ZachL wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ZachL wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ZachL wrote:

LARDLOGO wrote:CalTrain297 already posted a photo, but here's the GSV link for the former Teardrop on Busch Blvd in Tampa
https://goo.gl/maps/fUFo4mqBUTs

That one is looooong gone, by about five years now.

Looks to have been a nice crossing originally with the cats-eyed crossbucks and 8 inch lights.

It definitely was! That crossing had the only cantilevers in that style around the whole area in addition to being the only spot to find cats-eyed crossbucks too.

Yea, those WRRS cantilevers are getting hard to find these days...
Though at least y'all still have this old SAL install!
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9432393 ... 312!8i6656

The southern part of that line has little-to-no "CSX" installs on it, such as having these rounded Safetran "bridge" cantilevers!
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9418042 ... 312!8i6656

And at least one RACO 12 inch light:
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9417994 ... 312!8i6656

Oh my gosh I never noticed that!

Sorry... we are getting quite off subject for this post... but it is a goal of mine at some point to get some of those older crossings in south Tampa in action. Unfortunately the ONLY time I have seen a train on that line in the last 2 1/2 years was at 1:30 in the morning on my way home from a concert.

cabman701 wrote:Sorry... we are getting quite off subject for this post... but it is a goal of mine at some point to get some of those older crossings in south Tampa in action. Unfortunately the ONLY time I have seen a train on that line in the last 2 1/2 years was at 1:30 in the morning on my way home from a concert.

Maybe you could ask on in a Tampa-are Railfanning Group on Facebook what time the locals usually operate through there? I know Millennium Force has managed to get them operating along that line a few times.

cabman701 wrote:Sorry... we are getting quite off subject for this post... but it is a goal of mine at some point to get some of those older crossings in south Tampa in action. Unfortunately the ONLY time I have seen a train on that line in the last 2 1/2 years was at 1:30 in the morning on my way home from a concert.

We should railfan together sometime!