Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

Check out this oldie!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25854373@N03/3768289279/

Looks like a teardrop on there too.

first time I have seen a lamp put on the gate mechanism, as well as the bell put that way on the mast. AWSOME!

Crossingman18 wrote:first time I have seen a lamp put on the gate mechanism.

The lamp's on the other side of the crossing!

luke wrote:

Crossingman18 wrote:first time I have seen a lamp put on the gate mechanism.

The lamp's on the other side of the crossing!

Yup. That is a streetlight!

But the signal itself is definitely cool. I wonder if that photo is current... does that signal still exist somewhere?

Curiosity killed the kitty.

I decided to do a little Street View surfing to see if I could find that signal. Not all streets in that town (Glen Ridge, NJ) are on Street View, but I think I found the same railroad.

Here's a some of them with the bell mounted lower on the signal.

Note: Street View is still messing up... it ends up pointing in a different direction then what I saved the link at, so you will need to look around a little.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 8,,0,-0.32

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 1,,0,-0.18

Check this one out!

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... ,,0,-10.05

A little further down the line... it is abandoned:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 7,,0,13.82

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... .05,,0,2.2

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 97,,0,4.44

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 5,,0,-0.46

Those signals in the third link are hella ugly! any idea when the second track was pulled up

Yes, Google Street View is glitching pretty badly. That third link is ugly. I hate setups like that.

Otherwise, it's strange seeing so many teardrops out there.