Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

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This signal in Holly, MI doesn't have a "Stop on Red Signal" sign:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7768865 ... 384!8i8192

This is technically a MDOT violation, where every signal in Michigan has to have a "Stop on Red Signal" sign.
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Ethan the Railfanner wrote: Sun Aug 11, 2019 5:07 pm This signal in Holly, MI doesn't have a "Stop on Red Signal" sign:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7768865 ... 384!8i8192

This is technically a MDOT violation, where every signal in Michigan has to have a "Stop on Red Signal" sign.
I'm not even sure why they bothered with a gate there. :Blink: It's not even long enough to protect those making the left turn there!
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Active crossing in Monza, Italy.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@45.5870 ... 384!8i8192
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Classic wrrs signals on a spur in Kansas City, Kansas.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1535013 ... authuser=0
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Active crossing at Mayo St, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9440617 ... 312!8i6656

In 2007 these brand new gate mechanisms had WCH electronic bells. https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9500335 ... 328!8i1664

But in 2012, They have Safetran mechanical bells? :Blink:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9500678 ... 312!8i6656
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Are these NEG gate lights on a bridge?
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.6576189 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.6580047 ... 312!8i6656
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Not sure, but I don't really think so given how they're mounted to the gate arms there.
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A black painted General Signals E-Bell:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9621257 ... 384!8i8192
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Ethan the Railfanner wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2019 11:00 pm A black painted General Signals E-Bell:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9621257 ... 384!8i8192
Nice find! Must have been done by a fan of SCL :Tongue1:
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ZachL wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2019 3:01 pm
Ethan the Railfanner wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2019 11:00 pm A black painted General Signals E-Bell:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9621257 ... 384!8i8192
Nice find! Must have been done by a fan of SCL :Tongue1:
Looks to have been done recently, though i can't rule out that the bell was replaced! No other street view capture shows a black bell.
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