Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

- The gate is attatched to the cantilever. And although it isn't exactly something that's rare for the good, we do have signals that look like this:

http://www.rxrsignals.net/New_York/Mech ... dway/1.JPG
http://www.rxrsignals.net/New_York/Mech ... dway/6.JPG

- When the LEX-C lights break, instead of replacing the whole set, they just replace the single light that's affected, making the signals look a bit odd.

HEM rarest crossing signals in my home town/s
RARE CROSSINGS IN ST LOUIS CITY AND SUBURBS
Delord ave (central midland rr)is rare
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Missouri/Mary ... ts/Delord/

hog hollow rd isnt rare whats rare is the bell combo
safetran and mi
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Missouri/Mary ... og_Hollow/

lackland rd again rare bell combo wrrs and safetran
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Missouri/Mary ... /Lackland/

and cant forget leffingwell ave in kirkwood
on the up main line sadely a truck knocked down the one signal however good ol' up keeped what they could of the old signal but the gate mech was totaled
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Missouri/Kirk ... fingwell1/

the bell is rare a GRISWOLD/RECO
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Missouri/Oakland/Sappington2/

rare bell on trra bnsf (note this crossing is on the north side of st louis and is a very bad area)
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Missouri/St_Louis/Grand1/

Rare and m-bell on bsnf
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Missouri/Affton/Weber/

now this crossing isnt "rare"
but its cool
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Missouri/Maplewood/Sunnen/

RARE CROSSINGS IN MURFREESBORO/NASHVILLE TN

RUCKER RD
CSX very busy MAINLINE
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 7,,0,-0.71

http://www.rxrsignals.net/Tennessee/Mur ... ro/Rucker/

just down the linefrom rucker rd

http://www.rxrsignals.net/Tennessee/Bell_Buckle/Webb/

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 7,,0,-6.67

Downtown nashville tn

http://www.rxrsignals.net/Tennessee/Nashville/19/

bells are rare
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Tennessee/Nashville/Fogg/


RARE CROSSINGS IN MISSISSPPI/MOBILE AL/PENSACOLA Fl
Csx mainline
8 in lights wow DAMN this gs e-bell just replaced an m-bell
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Mississippi/P ... nge_Grove/

odd ped xing
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Mississippi/P ... edestrian/

8 in lights another damn gs e-bell
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Mississippi/P ... /Magnolia/

tons of gates and big cantilevers rare for the csx line here
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Mississippi/P ... dustrial1/

LIGHTS ONLY on the mainline this is pretty rare for csx
Luckily this crossing has a safetran type 2 e-bell
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Mississippi/P ... /Frederic/

lights only sadly the m-bell is dead
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Mississippi/O ... rings/Cox/

big crossing 2 m-bells is pretty rare for csx here
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Mississippi/O ... ngs/Ocean/

safetran m-bells rare for csx down here
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Florida/Crestview/Llyod/

not really rare but this xing has survived a lot
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Florida/Pensacola/8/

rare cantilever mi bell not so rare
big gates
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Florida/Pensacola/Gonzalez/
as you can see csx really doesn’t have true “RARE” stuff in the south
also there’s no real rare wayside signals I know of in my towns

ER801 wrote:

popibros1 wrote:rarest crossing signal:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=oxn ... 53,,0,-4.6 it has a teardrop and look at the old lights on it..

Forget about the lights, look at those counterweights! That right there is why you have bearing failures in mechanisms.


...And the girl on the billboard is interesting too...

Elton i dont thing FailAmerica has "SMART" signal maintainers
look at how bad that set up is
they need to use some c4 and start over on that crossing
plus i bet that bell rings when the gates go up

I never walk on the tracks at all...unless..of course, I have permission to do so...or with a maintainer. Only cross at the crossing. The CN police around here will give you a ticket for walking down the tracks...and I've seen it about 3 times in the last month.

WELL TELL this to crossingman18
i ONLY walk along the sides of the tracks
and only cross track at the crossing

I would like to, but with no trains in Prescott since 1983, I can't really do anything to this topic.

Sorry, nothing much around here that fits the bill. Uncle Pete's done a fairly good job keeping things up to date on the Jewell Sub in my area. Closest thing would probably be the 20 year old cantilever on the West side of the Broad Street crossing here in Story City. *shrug* It's hardly anything to write about.
(It's the one in the background, if you couldn't figure it out...)

We have a couple of the Raco cantilevers with the gates mounted directly on them:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 7,,1,-0.28

The one on the other side was exactly like this one, but was knocked down about 2 years ago. The mast signal that is on StreetView was only temporary, I posted a picture of the replacement signal in the Crossing Signal News section. That new signal has it's gate mounted directly on the cantilever as well.

Here's another Raco cantilever:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... ,,0,-10.44

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I also found this signal a bit odd when it was first installed because it was the first one I have seen with a "growth" sticking out of it:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 2,,0,-3.97

I have since seen others signals like that too on Mike's site I believe.

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These here are probably about the oldest signals in town that are still active. They just got a new lease on life too as they were just updgraded to all LED's within the last few months:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 72,,0,8.96

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And the oddest wayside signal has already been on this site as well. It is located on the I&M tracks on 19th Street. There are 2 other signals like this one as well:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 71,,1,1.96

Probably the Sellers Road wigwag in Banks. The road itself isn't on SV but Highway 47 runs right by it and it is.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 31,,1,0.49

As for wayside signals...not much. Sorry.

From what I've heard, the line has gone dormant due to damage caused by flooding a few years back. It's costing too much to fix it, and it just may stay dormant.

So in a word, yes it is unused.