Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 16,,0,3.62

Look at these "mini-cantilevers" in Miami!

gmfla wrote:... Look at these "mini-cantilevers" in Miami!

Why? To be seen over the bridge.
Does Googlearth hire flunkies too stupid to keep the lens clean and not fogged?

We have one's like that in my hometown although they are probably a bit older. Still in use every day. Those lights now have WCH LED's in them.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 1,,0,-5.37

Check this out, further down the line from the above Anaheim cantilever:

Who stol'd my cantilever?

And while we're at it... who in the world assembled those crossbucks along the line? Would you call those 115 degree?

cabman701 wrote:We have one's like that in my hometown although they are probably a bit older. Still in use every day. Those lights now have WCH LED's in them.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 1,,0,-5.37

There are a couple other crossings in Springfield that have short cantilevers too, but i think they are newer http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 21973&z=16

cabman701 wrote:We have one's like that in my hometown although they are probably a bit older. Still in use every day. Those lights now have WCH LED's in them.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 1,,0,-5.37

I have never seen a bell mounted so low - on the crossing gate post.
As a child, had I seen one, no doubt I would have sounded it with a stone or something.

I wouldn't say it's rare, but it's not exactly common either. Most of the time in those situations the bell is mounted on the cantilever. If they do mount it on the mast, it's usually a much taller mast instead of being at ear-level.

SouthernPacificLines wrote:I think its actually a fairly common practice to put bells on short gate mechanisms.

Oh yeah it is. We got them all over town. This one is on the NS line... there are quite a few more like these signals which were installed around 1990:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 87,,0,0.08

TWO bells! One on each gate mast.

Pennsylvania grade crossings (which I visited in the late 1950s to 1966) without gates had NO bells.
The onear my grandmother's former house still has none - according to Googlearth.

The Rio Grande track in Buena Vista, Colorado, now abandoned, has two bells; one on the top of the signal mast and other on the relay cabinet near the crossing.