Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

I don't understand...

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6320695 ... 56!6m1!1e1

pluey200 wrote:I don't understand...

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6320695 ... 56!6m1!1e1

That signal has come up at least once before. Certainly an odd modification.
But then again, that's just a weird crossing. Check out how far apart the lights are on the other signal:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6321364 ... 312!8i6656

Also, it looks like the gate has since been removed:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6326764 ... 312!8i6656

Looks like a completely different gate mech. (Similar to the oddball California ones in another thread. Only difference is this one doesn't have the one end that looks like a pole from a street sign.)

SirKrunch wrote:Looks like a completely different gate mech. (Similar to the oddball California ones in another thread. Only difference is this one doesn't have the one end that looks like a pole from a street sign.)

The ones in California were some kind of GRS product. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the same as well, but with a custom-made wooden gate for it.

I would have loved to see that one in action... wish I had known about it before I moved to Florida. I was only an hour or so a way from it...

I was kind of thinking about that signal recently and I half to wonder if this was done because the railroad was lazy and poor and when the standards to railroad crossings were less than they were today and it kind of went unnoticed until recently.

ToledoRailfan wrote:I was kind of thinking about that signal recently and I half to wonder if this was done because the railroad was lazy and poor and when the standards to railroad crossings were less than they were today and it kind of went unnoticed until recently.

That one is another head-scratcher for sure!

I like how the lights are spread out right here, though: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.632154, ... 312!8i6656

ZachL wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:I was kind of thinking about that signal recently and I half to wonder if this was done because the railroad was lazy and poor and when the standards to railroad crossings were less than they were today and it kind of went unnoticed until recently.

That one is another head-scratcher for sure!

I like how the lights are spread out right here, though: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.632154, ... 312!8i6656

And just like the odd gate, there is really no reason for it!

ToledoRailfan wrote:

ZachL wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:I was kind of thinking about that signal recently and I half to wonder if this was done because the railroad was lazy and poor and when the standards to railroad crossings were less than they were today and it kind of went unnoticed until recently.

That one is another head-scratcher for sure!

I like how the lights are spread out right here, though: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.632154, ... 312!8i6656

And just like the odd gate, there is really no reason for it!

May have been some kind of obstruction there in the past.

freebrickproductions wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:

ZachL wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:I was kind of thinking about that signal recently and I half to wonder if this was done because the railroad was lazy and poor and when the standards to railroad crossings were less than they were today and it kind of went unnoticed until recently.

That one is another head-scratcher for sure!

I like how the lights are spread out right here, though: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.632154, ... 312!8i6656

And just like the odd gate, there is really no reason for it!

May have been some kind of obstruction there in the past.

Yep, I can agree with this right here.