Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

That's actually pretty common

I'm sure that the reason it's long is because you can see the road starts to get wider for that left turning lane at the approaching intersection.

This has two gateholders and is at a major intersection but it's enormous:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=East+Sou ... ,,0,-13.72

Trainzmandude2012 wrote:This has two gateholders and is at a major intersection but it's enormous:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=East+Sou ... ,,0,-13.72

About as crazy long as the traffic light cantilever at that intersection:

http://goo.gl/maps/pU82i

I'd like to see how much that thing wobbles on a windy day...

cabman701 wrote:

Trainzmandude2012 wrote:This has two gateholders and is at a major intersection but it's enormous:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=East+Sou ... ,,0,-13.72

About as crazy long as the traffic light cantilever at that intersection:

http://goo.gl/maps/pU82i

I'd like to see how much that thing wobbles on a windy day...

MARC Frederick Station is down the track but it has only 6 MARC Trains(it is a CSX owned line and it's ends at a bunch of silos where the tracks are covered in foliage) some in the early morning and some at the evening.

Next to the one I just posted:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=South+St ... 5,,0,-23.3

The top holder is useless:
https://www.google.com/maps?q=Virginia+ ... ,,0,-21.49

https://www.google.com/maps?q=Virginia+ ... 5,,1,-6.58

https://www.google.com/maps?q=Virginia+ ... ,,0,-17.38

Trainzmandude2012 wrote:https://maps.google.com/?ll=39.33199,-7 ... ,,0,-20.02

And here is that gate going up after a commuter train coming through:

http://goo.gl/maps/po8h6

All of the signals at this intersection appear to be wired together. And of course if you didn't notice it appears to be a quiet zone as the crossing has wayside horns. Would be a cool one to get a video of.