Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

In this thread, post any videos or photos of crossings located on closed roads that still active anytime a train comes through.

The first video shows off the Bloomfield Road level crossing in Nilma (near Warragul) in Victoria, Australia. The uploader shot this video in late 2000 or early 2001 shortly after the crossing had been replaced with an overpass and freeway interchange.


Here's the site today:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-38.170 ... 312!8i6656

Another one I found (and have posted before), is the Ryan Road crossing in Pakenham. This road got cut in half at the crossing when the Pakenham Bypass was constructed in 2007, but no one removed the warning system! Thus, it was left there, protecting no one!


Despite what they said at the end of the news report, the signals were still in place in 2010! (I know it's hard too see, but it's there.) It's even active in this shot!
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-38.083 ... 312!8i6656

From the Pakenham Bypass, you could see the crossing gates if you looked carefully!
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-38.085 ... 312!8i6656

By 2014, someone had finally removed the crossing signals!
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-38.084 ... 312!8i6656

Monroe Street in Courtland, AL had the signals at it operational after it was closed for a little while:

http://www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/Courtland/Monroe/

There was this crossing in Lakeland, FL from a few years ago. You can skip to the 2:00 mark if you want. The signals are gone now.



There's also this one in Tavares, FL: https://www.google.com/maps/@28.8030794 ... 56!6m1!1e1

Technically, the crossing is somewhat used as it leads to an orange grove. However, these tracks are not busy enough to warrant lights and gates IMO.



And sort of going in the opposite direction, you can't forget about this beauty of a crossing that was built before the road, then the road never finished:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2603708 ... 56!6m1!1e1

cabman701 wrote: And sort of going in the opposite direction, you can't forget about this beauty of a crossing that was built before the road, then the road never finished:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2603708 ... 56!6m1!1e1

Looks like the bell was replaced with a Safetran mechanical bell?
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2603577 ... 312!8i6656

freebrickproductions wrote:Looks like the bell was replaced with a Safetran mechanical bell?
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2603577 ... 312!8i6656

Appears so!

I wonder if there's still power to that crossing!

ZachL wrote:I wonder if there's still power to that crossing!

There might be! Unfortunately, I can't see any AC power indicators, if there are any, on the relay case.

By the way, if you look at the maps, it looks like the area was zoned to be a residential area, with a road crossing where that crossing is:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2602228 ... 425,18.29z

ZachL wrote:By the way, if you look at the maps, it looks like the area was zoned to be a residential area, with a road crossing where that crossing is:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2602228 ... 425,18.29z

Clearly the project flopped. Oh well.

freebrickproductions wrote:

ZachL wrote:By the way, if you look at the maps, it looks like the area was zoned to be a residential area, with a road crossing where that crossing is:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2602228 ... 425,18.29z

Clearly the project flopped. Oh well.

I think I read somewhere where they were having issues with soil contamination of something to that effect.