Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

NathanFromEngland wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2019 4:43 pm

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

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.

It was probably painted black to match the repaint job on the previously-faded black WCH mechanical bell here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9621568 ... 384!8i8192

ZachL wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2019 7:05 pm

NathanFromEngland wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2019 4:43 pm

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

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.

It was probably painted black to match the repaint job on the previously-faded black WCH mechanical bell here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9621568 ... 384!8i8192

Which, given the fact that's an old L&N crossing, was likely done to match the original MI bells there.

Active crossing in Manchester, GA:
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.8552063 ... 312!8i6656
Street View, NO!
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.8549764 ... 312!8i6656

Active crossing in Mauk, GA:
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.5031979 ... 312!8i6656

Another one in Vienna, GA:
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.0954246 ... 312!8i6656

This crossing has a pair of cats-eyed crossbucks!
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.0774734 ... 312!8i6656
Close-ups of both from 2013:
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.0774141 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.0772998 ... 312!8i6656

This is a nice looking crossing:
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.0951054 ... 312!8i6656

Active crossing in San Diego, California:
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7295951 ... 384!8i8192

Active crossings in Dalton, GA:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7761149 ... 312!8i6656

This is rather odd...
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.8141528 ... 328!8i1664
(Though the crossbucks might be gone now sadly...)

Active crossing near Ringgold, GA:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.8673942 ... 328!8i1664

Ethan the Railfanner wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2019 4:25 pm This is rather odd...
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.8141528 ... 328!8i1664
(Though the crossbucks might be gone now sadly...)

I think satellite view confirms they are.

EDIT: Active crossing in Charlotte, NC:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2507453 ... 384!8i8192

freebrickproductions wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2019 4:36 pm

Ethan the Railfanner wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2019 4:25 pm This is rather odd...
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.8141528 ... 328!8i1664
(Though the crossbucks might be gone now sadly...)

I think satellite view confirms they are.

Yeah, they have to be gone. Plus, usually that happens when a crossing is upgraded from passive and just freshly activated as well.

ZachL wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2019 12:29 am

freebrickproductions wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2019 4:36 pm

Ethan the Railfanner wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2019 4:25 pm This is rather odd...
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.8141528 ... 328!8i1664
(Though the crossbucks might be gone now sadly...)

I think satellite view confirms they are.

Yeah, they have to be gone. Plus, usually that happens when a crossing is upgraded from passive and just freshly activated as well.

Interestingly enough, I think those signals were already a few years old by the time street view came through, based on the equipment.

Tall masts here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5122925 ... 312!8i6656

freebrickproductions wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 1:54 pm Tall masts here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5122925 ... 312!8i6656

Well, what do you expect, after all it's most of Norfolk Southerns signals that suffer from gigantism