Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

Got a fairly big update this time, with a decent number of crossings from Hopen111 out in Iowa. He's got plenty more coming so keep an eye out for future submissions from him. I also got some crossings in Illinois, with some updates and plenty of new crossings.

Also, as a future note, I will not be doing webpage making for outside submissions from here on out. If you contacted me prior, this does not apply to you. Also, if you're able to make webpages and just want me to upload them to the site, I will still do that. I still have tens of thousands of my own pictures to post to the site, other railroad related projects I work on, plus obviously work in the real world, so that's why I'm not taking future webpage work.

16 new pictures of 1 new crossing from Ackley, IA
18 new pictures of 1 new crossing from Agency, IA
47 new pictures of 3 new crossings from Atlantic, IA
14 new pictures of 1 new crossing from Beaver, IA
126 new pictures and 3 new videos of 5 new crossings from Boone, IA
45 new pictures and 1 new video of 2 new crossings from Dedham, IA
100 new pictures and 1 new video of 5 new and 3 updated crossings from Des Moines, IA
25 new pictures and 1 new video of 1 new crossing from Fairfax, IA
19 new pictures of 1 new crossing from Fort Dodge, IA
81 new pictures and 2 new videos of 5 new crossings from Grand Junction, IA
25 new pictures of 1 new crossing from Iowa Falls, IA
17 new pictures and 1 new video of 1 new crossing from Ladora, IA
51 new pictures and 3 new videos of 1 new and 2 updated crossings from Mount Pleasant, IA
1 new video of 1 updated crossing from Oelwein, IA
18 new pictures of 1 new crossing from South Amana, IA
16 new pictures of 1 new crossing from Stockton, IA
18 new pictures and 1 new video of 1 new crossing from Urbandale, IA
15 new pictures of 1 new crossing from Victor, IA
1 new picture and 1 new video of 1 updated crossing from Windsor Heights, IA
4 new videos of 4 updated crossings from Altona, IL
1 new video of 1 updated crossing from Arrowsmith, IL
102 new pictures and 1 new video of 4 new crossings from Barstow, IL
123 new pictures and 2 new videos of 6 new crossings from Carlock, IL
194 new pictures and 5 new videos of 8 new crossings from Colona, IL
41 new pictures of 2 new crossings from Congerville, IL
75 new pictures of 4 new crossings from Deer Creek, IL
163 new pictures and 7 new videos of 2 updated crossings from Dixon, IL
47 new pictures and 1 new video of 3 new crossings from Ellsworth, IL
88 new pictures and 1 new video of 5 new crossings from Forest City, IL
266 new pictures and 7 new videos of 11 new crossings from Geneseo, IL
88 new pictures and 1 new video of 4 new crossings from Goodfield, IL
55 new pictures and 2 new videos of 3 new crossings from Green River, IL
317 new pictures and 4 new videos of 13 new crossings from Harvey, IL
11 new pictures and 5 new videos of 5 updated crossings from Henry, IL
71 new pictures of 4 new crossings from Holder, IL
169 new pictures and 2 new videos of 4 new crossings from La Grange, IL
161 new pictures and 1 new video of 8 new crossings from Manito, IL
212 new pictures of 7 new crossings from Phoenix, IL
20 new pictures and 3 new videos of 1 updated crossing from Putnam, IL
70 new pictures of 5 new crossings from San Jose, IL
51 new pictures and 2 new videos of 2 new crossings from South Holland, IL
126 new pictures and 1 new video of 4 new crossings from Thornton, IL
84 new pictures and 1 new video of 6 new crossings from Topeka, IL

Also a side note, many pages will say Created March 2023, as that when I originally was going to post it, but I ended up postponing until now and just didn't feel like going back to change all the dates.

I was wondering how I can get all of the files required to make a webpage. I was watching freebrickproductions video on how but I’d always get stuck at the header. So if there is any files like a editable template available I would really like to use it.

NSsignal wrote: Mon Apr 17, 2023 2:02 pm I was wondering how I can get all of the files required to make a webpage. I was watching freebrickproductions video on how but I’d always get stuck at the header. So if there is any files like a editable template available I would really like to use it.

You need to have Photoshop to be able to edit the headers. You also need an HTML editor like Adobe Dreamweaver or BlueGriffon. You also need the RoadGeek series of fonts in order to edit the headers.

BlueGriffon: http://www.bluegriffon.org/#download
RoadGeek Fonts: https://www.fontspace.com/roadgeek-2005-font-f1747

Thank you very much

PlyingKibbles89 wrote: Wed Apr 19, 2023 2:48 pm

NSsignal wrote: Mon Apr 17, 2023 2:02 pm I was wondering how I can get all of the files required to make a webpage. I was watching freebrickproductions video on how but I’d always get stuck at the header. So if there is any files like a editable template available I would really like to use it.

You need to have Photoshop to be able to edit the headers. You also need an HTML editor like Adobe Dreamweaver or BlueGriffon. You also need the RoadGeek series of fonts in order to edit the headers.

BlueGriffon: http://www.bluegriffon.org/#download
RoadGeek Fonts: https://www.fontspace.com/roadgeek-2005-font-f1747

IIRC, Photopea, a free online picture editor, accepts the Photoshop (.psd) files for the headers without issue, though you'll need to import the correct fonts into it.

I think for future mikes RxR site submitters you should have a post with all the links needed. It can get quite annoying when you can’t find things plus it would drastically decrease the amount of questions for how do you get that. Just a thought

NSsignal wrote: Mon Apr 24, 2023 11:45 am I think for future mikes RxR site submitters you should have a post with all the links needed. It can get quite annoying when you can’t find things plus it would drastically decrease the amount of questions for how do you get that. Just a thought

I may see about doing that at some point.

There are no crossings in Utah on this site yet.....but I live in UTAH.