Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

Check these out recently posted on a Facebook page from my hometown:
And... here is that same view today: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8028777 ... 6656?hl=en. Although the cantilevers where upgraded in the 70's, and of course it now has all LED, I believe the gate masts are still the same from way back when.

Also, here's a video I took at this crossing in 2009 when one of the LED's was acting up.

Nice find!

Another crossing photo from 1958 was posted on this Facebook page I follow. I believe there is a mini bell on the signal across the tracks!
This crossing no longer exists... it was replaced with an overpass in the 1980's.

I remember driving past this crossing many times with my parents growing up. The overpass opened right after I got my license, and I remember that once the crossing was closed, the signals remained in place and actually were operational for quite a few months. Sure wish cell phones (to photo/video the crossing) existed back then!

Here is where the crossing used to be... the road was where the junk yard is now (to the right of the overpass). https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8017899 ... 6656?hl=en

Another old photo with a signal popped up on a Facebook page I follow over the weekend. This is from the early 60's I believe based on the cars.

It shows a crossing with the signal in the median... we have seen one's like this before. I was surprised to see one in my hometown though. It looks like it even has a light below the SORS sign that I'm guessing was there to make the signal more visible at night. Very nice!

This is the crossing today. It is slated to be closed soon if the city gets approval for a quiet zone along this line.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7972948 ... 6656?hl=en

So, who wants to help me invent a time machine and take a trip?

freebrickproductions wrote:So, who wants to help me invent a time machine and take a trip?

Maybe ask Doc Brown.

freebrickproductions wrote:So, who wants to help me invent a time machine and take a trip?

Sure, as long as I don't pay for any fares in getting to the time machine...

cabman701 wrote:Another old photo with a signal popped up on a Facebook page I follow over the weekend. This is from the early 60's I believe based on the cars.

It shows a crossing with the signal in the median... we have seen one's like this before. I was surprised to see one in my hometown though. It looks like it even has a light below the SORS sign that I'm guessing was there to make the signal more visible at night. Very nice!

This is the crossing today. It is slated to be closed soon if the city gets approval for a quiet zone along this line.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7972948 ... 6656?hl=en

Old signal.jpg

I always liked that look. I remember this sort of thing from my youth, although the concrete pedestals had warning stripes painted on them.

TrickyMario7654 wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:So, who wants to help me invent a time machine and take a trip?

Maybe ask Doc Brown.

Getting back home may be difficult, the DeLorean could struggle to reach 88mph when it's loaded with vintage crossing equipment

So yet another old photo popped up recently from my hometown... this is from the middle 60's according to the comments. You can see a nice cantilever signal on the far left. It appears it has inverted crossbucks.

Those signals at the crossing actually stuck around until the late 80's or early 90's, I remember seeing them when I was growing up, but I don't remember them having inverted crossbucks. Those may have changed around the same time black striped gates went away. Those older cantilevers were replaced with more traditional ones like I said sometime in the late 80's or early 90's which are still at the crossing today.

Here is the same view as the photo today: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8163314 ... 6656?hl=en
And a more closeup view of the crossing today: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8162371 ... 6656?hl=en