Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

ToledoRailfan wrote:

No one knows who made those square E-bells. It's been a mystery since they were discovered.

Do you know of any videos of them in action on Youtube?

No.

Possible former Griswold Rotating Banner: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.507668, ... !2e0?hl=en

ToledoRailfan wrote:Possible former Griswold Rotating Banner: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.507668, ... !2e0?hl=en

Yep, that was a Griswold Rotating Banner.
Looks like scrap thieves vandalized it though.

Some signals with GRS/GRSA XB & XD 8'' lights! These signals also have crossbucks that were used before Canada updated most of the crossing with crossbucks with red stripes:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Niaga ... a552?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.105057, ... !2e0?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.104996, ... !2e0?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.10496,- ... !2e0?hl=en

ToledoRailfan wrote:Some signals with GRS/GRSA XB & XD 8'' lights! These signals also have crossbucks that were used before Canada updated most of the crossing with crossbucks with red stripes:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Niaga ... a552?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.105057, ... !2e0?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.104996, ... !2e0?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.10496,- ... !2e0?hl=en

Amazing find!
Didn't know any still existed in North America. I wonder if there are any hiding in the US somewhere.

ToledoRailfan wrote:Some signals with GRS/GRSA XB & XD 8'' lights! These signals also have crossbucks that were used before Canada updated most of the crossing with crossbucks with red stripes:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Niaga ... a552?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.105057, ... !2e0?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.104996, ... !2e0?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.10496,- ... !2e0?hl=en

Awesome!

This is kind of odd, I assume the crossing gate goes down when the bridge is open because it looks like wheb the gate is down, it would be really close or go over the tracks, The traffic signal may go red red the bridge is open and also when there is a train. : https://www.google.com/maps/@42.289569, ... !2e0?hl=en

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This is not a place I'd expect to see cantilever signals: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.290807, ... !2e0?hl=en

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I wonder if this crossing acts kind of as a quad system even though there is only three signals: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.320684, ... !2e0?hl=en

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This is not crossing related but these two signal clusters have 3Ms on them!: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.320995, ... !2e0?hl=en

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This signal does not have a "stop on red" sign: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.322909, ... !2e0?hl=en

But in 2009 it had one, it must have been stolen: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.322905, ... 0000?hl=en

I tried to see what the signal looked like in 2007 but instead I saw this!: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.322909, ... 0000?hl=en

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Interesting little pedestrian crossing I found in New York: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.74097,- ... 7WV2fQ!2e0

Here's an action shot from Railpictures: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 75&nseq=55

Here's an interesting crossing where the tracks go through one of the corners of an intersection, causing it to have four gateless 8 inch cantilevers!
The crossing has a rather odd arrangement for the signals though.

Streetview caught the railroad in the middle of upgrading this crossing to LED.

These crossings have 8 inch LEDs at them:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=41.92777 ... 2,,0,-6.16

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=41.93839 ... 25,,0,6.43 -- This light is also out of alignment.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=41.96805 ... 92,,0,0.58

Active crossing:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=44.05631 ... 79,,0,5.38

WABCO triangle gate mechs:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=43.70008 ... 33,,0,0.25

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=44.05692 ... 35,,0,4.56

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=44.05803 ... .72,,0,0.7

A rather interesting "Stop here" sign:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=44.05803 ... ,,3,-18.23