4:18 Yep at Wallangarra on the Queensland/New South Wales border in Australia twelve or thereabouts both narrow gauge and standard. They are not used today though because they were all made redundant with the uniform gauge line opened closer to the coast between Brisbane and Sydney. Some tracks are now sealed over with bitumen. But at Coffs Harbour in the 1980s there was once at least six or so protected by a gated level crossing until December 1994, now down to one but the line is still busy connecting two major capital cities on the eastern seaboard.
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Whoa...12 tracks?? That's some dangerous crossing😂. Nice video. I really really like the GM roar and that vintage loco's horn at 5:02. Greetings, from SA
Looks like an intake or outgoing assembly yard with a couple of yard bypass (mainline) tracks in the middle of it. I used to trainwatch around Homewood, IL - it had a very similar sort of area where electric passenger lines, mainline freight, an intake yard *and* an engine repair shop all came together in one spot and made for some first class trainwatching. No grade crossing, though - there actually was a pedestrian tunnel under all the tracks (and staircases to the Metra electric tracks and the Amtrak station).
Yep that area is a collector yard was used in ww2 for freight going into oak ridge tn and for the Kingston steam plants coal cars back in the day. One of thows tracks are the one that circles rockwood and harriman tn as a turnaround for heading back to the Knoxville Tennessee yard and for the turn back to Chattanooga.
Good footage. A 12-track grade crossing with what I'm assuming doesn't see much vehicle traffic makes sense. This would never fly in a more populated area, though.
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Our hero. As a kid, I remember track crossings like this in several spots near the railyards that usually intersected major roads. Had some major traffic back-ups waiting for the trains to cross. Some of them were so wide that the city just went ahead and put overpass bridges above the tracks. And, for their efforts, years later the railroad closed the yard. This was in scenic Hammond, Indiana. Which, if scuttlebutt was true, used to have more railroad track per capita, and more trains and cars passing thru it than any other place in the country. Today, or course, that's that true, but it's still pretty busy with trains running in and out of Chicago. Hammond was the last point before hitting the south side of Chicago and many lines used Hammond for yards and offloading to avoid the jam in the city. Every major eastern or southern line ran thru it as well as the many bridge lines moving product and materials for the steel mills and processing plants. Before they moved, that included moving cattle and hogs thru to meat processing plants in the area. Nothing smells better than a mix of chemicals, steel mill soot and live animals.
Wow great video Jaw Tooth ... I would not want to get stuck half way across the crossing when the gates came down! I can honestly say I have never seen so many tracks at one crossing! I take it that certain vehicles would not be allowed to cross here perhaps due to their length? ...
Brief history lesson of Harriman yard....... old L&N yard where they made up the freight going anywhere on L&N Line, and as I recall L&N actually designation 4 lines to directional flow of freight, aka mains, and the rest were make up areas. Also big yard area in down town Knoxville that was old L&N and used to run by on southside of Grampa's farm ( west side of Knoxville).
I imagine this is what Nottingham road in Cleveland, OH used to be like going through Collinwood yard. At least before Interstate 90 was built and they rerouted Nottingham and East 185th.
I can honestly say I haven't seen a crossing with THAT many tracks here in Eastern PA. There is a 4-track crossing not too far away, but two of the tracks are "dead".
That would give me so much anxiety, just being in the middle of that where a train could come from any direction and the only place you can run is another track. Nope.
There used to be a crossing in Charlottesville Virginia that literally was 15 railroad tracks it took about 5 mins to cross because sections were old. Well they took out some of the tracks because of the length of time and closed the road permanently off so theirs no crossing at all anymore. Used to be Buckingham Branch CSX NS and Amtrack lines that ran. It was so many you had to count going across but thats back in the 90's
This popped up in my feed after watching 1960 Gambit’s video of this where you’d stopped and videoed here in 2024! That definitely is a lot of tracks at a crossing. Cool train action, too!
Its the most I have ever found and I have looked on Google Maps all over the USA. That's how I found it. I'm going back there again this summer to film some more.
Interesting. I remember a grade crossing back in the 1950's outside of Buffalo at the long-gone Gardenville reefer yard. Jus east of the NYC roundhouse. I was in the 4th or 5th grade and Dad took us over there to watch the switchers make refridgerated produce trains. That yard is gone and the roundhouse platform is at the train museum in Industry, NY south of Rochester, NY. Good memories!
The vehicle entryway to the RF&P Potomac Yard was multiple crossings - not a single crossing. A nine track monster, but broken into four sections (three, three, one, and two). The two three trackers were spurs and switchlines, as was the one; the two was the main line (and is still present). The property is still being redeveloped; to the left is US 1 between Alexandria and Crystal City/Pentagon City and (eventually) Amazon HQ2.
I remember there are 8 tracks, 9 tracks, 10 tracks, and even 12 tracks grade crossings in Detroit on the east side and west side when I was a kid back in the 1950s and 1960s. Today either most or all of the tracks at the same garage crossings are gone, due to financial problems.
We've got large crossings like that but not quite so many tracks. I don't like to cross them. Sometimes the engines come in there to pick up box cars. They have to pull forward, switch tracks, then back up, attach the cars, then pull forward with the newly formed longer train. That can tie up the crossing seemingly forever. They also have to sound their horns as they back up, so can be quite noisy as well.
There's a crossing near me called Holgate Street in Seattle, WA. It's only 7 tracks, but the interesting part about it is that it runs through the middle of a joint Amtrak and Sounder (local commuter) yard. Every time I get down there I usually tons of trains, such as Amtrak Cascades with their awesome Talgo sets (If you don't know about these look them up they are really rad), the Amtrak Coast Starlight and Empire Builder, tons of Sounder Commuters, and tons of BNSF Freights and Locals. If you're lucky, you can even catch the Boeing Train going by with it's load of 737 fuselages on it! Best part too, there's a Krispy Kreme donut shop right next to where I park! Best place in town!
Middle of the nite I’m scanning my iPad and you show up ,I missed this vid when it first came out so wait there’s more. Haha, I had to google this spot to see its pretty amazing ,nice country too I’m upstate ny small village so we’re doing ok with Coronavirus half lock down like everyone else you stay safe and as usual I’ll be looking for more of. Jawtooth, thank you my friend,keep up the good work !
Jaw Tooth there’s lots of spots you could spend a month around New York City tons of movement with Conn. Mass. all New England lines work their way to and around the city. I live upstate a couple miles north of Mohawk River (40 mi. ) n. w. Of Albany main line runs along the River from Buffalo to NYC. If you ever come north pick summer or fall .winter is a little rougher than what your used to. I’m sure you could deal with it, but it’s more enjoyable in good weather ! Thanks for the reply !
Matt scheerschmidt you know how to the railroad crossings with two tracks has a sign saying there are two tracks between the first crossing and the second one? Well it's that sign but it says 12 tracks.
Well that’s amazing! But I think they should change the road name from Emory Gap Rd. to Memory Gap Rd. because you can’t remember how many tracks you’ve crossed! What is the Guinness World Record for the number of tracks???
This is the longest one I’ve seen after watching this video. I’m gonna go visit it now. The biggest one I’ve seen had 8, but I don’t remember where it was at. I think I was just a kid when we went over that.
Looks like a rail yard. There's one like it heading into Long Beach, CA. It has the black top road cutting across also, but isn't a public thoroughfare!!
Back in the day, the Boston Street grade crossing in Baltimore, Maryland had a crap ton of tracks at a grade crossing. I'm not sure if it was 12 though, but close. That was many years ago, they may have put in an overpass by now...................
Interesting dilemma.. you're driving a loaded truck just started across,the gate comes down behind you. What do you do? Keep going, back up or jump out and run??
There is an 8-track crossing in Japan. All lines are main lines, and there are so many trains on all the lines that the gate open times are few and very short. YT is not letting me post the link, so search YT for "Worst Railway Crossing in Japan" and you'll find it.
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Crazy thing is, this crossing DID NOT HAVE GATES (only had lights) back in 2007 when StreetView visited it for the only time. :O
The largest crossing in the US is a 14 track crossing in Wichita, KS.
Can you Pl. Uplaod the same? Eager to watch..
What road is that on?
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I just added that to my list of places to video
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4:18 Yep at Wallangarra on the Queensland/New South Wales border in Australia twelve or thereabouts both narrow gauge and standard. They are not used today though because they were all made redundant with the uniform gauge line opened closer to the coast between Brisbane and Sydney. Some tracks are now sealed over with bitumen. But at Coffs Harbour in the 1980s there was once at least six or so protected by a gated level crossing until December 1994, now down to one but the line is still busy connecting two major capital cities on the eastern seaboard.
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Whoa...12 tracks?? That's some dangerous crossing😂. Nice video. I really really like the GM roar and that vintage loco's horn at 5:02.
Greetings, from SA
Thanks for posting this video Jaw Tooth I bet everyone's going to be amazed when they see this
Thanks Jaw Tooth! I'm getting ready to move to Harriman Tennessee just to live near that awesome crossing.
Looks like an intake or outgoing assembly yard with a couple of yard bypass (mainline) tracks in the middle of it.
I used to trainwatch around Homewood, IL - it had a very similar sort of area where electric passenger lines, mainline freight, an intake yard *and* an engine repair shop all came together in one spot and made for some first class trainwatching. No grade crossing, though - there actually was a pedestrian tunnel under all the tracks (and staircases to the Metra electric tracks and the Amtrak station).
12 tracks! Wow, that is some railroad crossing!
Yep that area is a collector yard was used in ww2 for freight going into oak ridge tn and for the Kingston steam plants coal cars back in the day. One of thows tracks are the one that circles rockwood and harriman tn as a turnaround for heading back to the Knoxville Tennessee yard and for the turn back to Chattanooga.
Good footage. A 12-track grade crossing with what I'm assuming doesn't see much vehicle traffic makes sense. This would never fly in a more populated area, though.
Fantastic video dear Friend love it
Imagine trains running on all those tracks at track speed.
I've never seen that many tracks before, good find JT!! :D
Dad worked on the Railroad 20 years. For Father's Day Fuzzilla Slept on top of the grill most of the day & I broke down and Cleaned inside Dad's truck plus Detailed the whole Mustang as they were both much needed. I cost me both days at the gym, I am very sore today; too much work all weekend to workout as well so I will go today and work on Back and Triceps Carefully. I will continue to be here with clips from my Twitch streams and talks with Fuzzilla. My brother is getting Married July 7th.
God Bless you all, keep your heads up.
I have never seen a Railroad Crossing with that many tracks before this is amazing I got to go over there and see it for myself
Wow, I have never seen that many tracks like that. Great video.
WOW. The most I've ever seen was 5 over on the Hudson and one of them was for a storage track for freight cars. Thanks for showing that!
Our hero.
As a kid, I remember track crossings like this in several spots near the railyards that usually intersected major roads. Had some major traffic back-ups waiting for the trains to cross. Some of them were so wide that the city just went ahead and put overpass bridges above the tracks. And, for their efforts, years later the railroad closed the yard.
This was in scenic Hammond, Indiana. Which, if scuttlebutt was true, used to have more railroad track per capita, and more trains and cars passing thru it than any other place in the country. Today, or course, that's that true, but it's still pretty busy with trains running in and out of Chicago. Hammond was the last point before hitting the south side of Chicago and many lines used Hammond for yards and offloading to avoid the jam in the city. Every major eastern or southern line ran thru it as well as the many bridge lines moving product and materials for the steel mills and processing plants. Before they moved, that included moving cattle and hogs thru to meat processing plants in the area. Nothing smells better than a mix of chemicals, steel mill soot and live animals.
Dang 12 tracks ?! Crazy off the chain wild
Wow! This must be in the middle of a rail yard. Very interesting. Cheers, Dan
TWELVE TRACKS?!?! THATS INSANE!!! OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!
Very nice to see. Another great job by the jaw Tooth crew!
Great catch. Now that's one wide crossing. Thanks for sharing Mr Tooth. Lol
awesome video and catch. sweet catch of the SD70ACE & EX-SD90/43MAC. i have not seen 12 tracks before. dang cool.
Wow great video Jaw Tooth ... I would not want to get stuck half way across the crossing when the gates came down! I can honestly say I have never seen so many tracks at one crossing! I take it that certain vehicles would not be allowed to cross here perhaps due to their length? ...
I used to live 28 miles from there but never saw this. Good find.
That’s one of the rarest train crossings of all time. Most railroad crossings only have 2 or 3 tracks. But 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 tracks are rare.
Another great video! Thanks, and no, I've never seen anything close to 12 tracks. Excellent find. :)
👍 Thumbs up 😀 as always, thanks! 👍
Insane crossing!
Brief history lesson of Harriman yard....... old L&N yard where they made up the freight going anywhere on L&N Line, and as I recall L&N actually designation 4 lines to directional flow of freight, aka mains, and the rest were make up areas. Also big yard area in down town Knoxville that was old L&N and used to run by on southside of Grampa's farm ( west side of Knoxville).
Great video you posted Jaw Tooth I got to hand it to you that's a lot of train tracks right there
I haven't been there in sometime, but south of Detroit between Wyandot and Trenton Mi was several crossings like this one
12 tracks very nice! Looks very active as well. Great location for railcam. Need to check that place out. Thanks
I imagine this is what Nottingham road in Cleveland, OH used to be like going through Collinwood yard. At least before Interstate 90 was built and they rerouted Nottingham and East 185th.
Wow! I thought I hit the big time when I drove across a four track crossing once. Twelve tracks, holy crap! Nice video :)
Wow, nice find 👍👍
I can honestly say I haven't seen a crossing with THAT many tracks here in Eastern PA. There is a 4-track crossing not too far away, but two of the tracks are "dead".
There is only one more in USA that has more tracks on a public road. I will get that one someday also
That would give me so much anxiety, just being in the middle of that where a train could come from any direction and the only place you can run is another track. Nope.
Great spot Brian.Lots of rails and ties.Thumbs up and a bell ring.
There used to be a crossing in Charlottesville Virginia that literally was 15 railroad tracks it took about 5 mins to cross because sections were old. Well they took out some of the tracks because of the length of time and closed the road permanently off so theirs no crossing at all anymore. Used to be Buckingham Branch CSX NS and Amtrack lines that ran. It was so many you had to count going across but thats back in the 90's
This popped up in my feed after watching 1960 Gambit’s video of this where you’d stopped and videoed here in 2024! That definitely is a lot of tracks at a crossing. Cool train action, too!
That's awesome! I will have a video of this also from 2024. Mine will be up this week some time.
Holy cow one of the original SD70's old soldier still going strong.
Holy crap thats alot of tracks! Still watching the video, looks amazing!
Impressive this crossing, and also the trains.
What a nightmare for someone with a train phobia. Imagine getting caught in the middle of that, and having 2 or more trains coming.
This is amazing! I’ve never seen a 12-track railroad crossing before! 👍👍👍
Its the most I have ever found and I have looked on Google Maps all over the USA. That's how I found it. I'm going back there again this summer to film some more.
great video...this is one crossing i'd try to avoid even w lights & gates...too many tracks!!
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Thats the longest railroad crossing I've ever seen.
somedude #3 I would say the widest as the longest would be street runners.
An absolute catch!!! Never seen a 12-gated railroad crossing! Amazing! #jawtoothisnumber1
That crossing is massive. Excellent!
My home town.Try riding over all 12 in the back of a pickup truck.
You should go and see the double track trestle that gos across the river.
That sounds like fun.
Interesting. I remember a grade crossing back in the 1950's outside of Buffalo at the long-gone Gardenville reefer yard. Jus east of the NYC roundhouse. I was in the 4th or 5th grade and Dad took us over there to watch the switchers make refridgerated produce trains.
That yard is gone and the roundhouse platform is at the train museum in Industry, NY south of Rochester, NY.
Good memories!
The vehicle entryway to the RF&P Potomac Yard was multiple crossings - not a single crossing. A nine track monster, but broken into four sections (three, three, one, and two). The two three trackers were spurs and switchlines, as was the one; the two was the main line (and is still present). The property is still being redeveloped; to the left is US 1 between Alexandria and Crystal City/Pentagon City and (eventually) Amazon HQ2.
Wow 12 tracks. Never saw that before. Great video.
I remember there are 8 tracks, 9 tracks, 10 tracks, and even 12 tracks grade crossings in Detroit on the east side and west side when I was a kid back in the 1950s and 1960s. Today either most or all of the tracks at the same garage crossings are gone, due to financial problems.
Interesting catch! The most we have in my town is a 6 track crossing. Amazing!
Good video! I like it! And nice summer to you and all in USA from Sweden.
We've got large crossings like that but not quite so many tracks. I don't like to cross them. Sometimes the engines come in there to pick up box cars. They have to pull forward, switch tracks, then back up, attach the cars, then pull forward with the newly formed longer train. That can tie up the crossing seemingly forever. They also have to sound their horns as they back up, so can be quite noisy as well.
There's a crossing near me called Holgate Street in Seattle, WA. It's only 7 tracks, but the interesting part about it is that it runs through the middle of a joint Amtrak and Sounder (local commuter) yard. Every time I get down there I usually tons of trains, such as Amtrak Cascades with their awesome Talgo sets (If you don't know about these look them up they are really rad), the Amtrak Coast Starlight and Empire Builder, tons of Sounder Commuters, and tons of BNSF Freights and Locals. If you're lucky, you can even catch the Boeing Train going by with it's load of 737 fuselages on it! Best part too, there's a Krispy Kreme donut shop right next to where I park! Best place in town!
I just read an article in a magazine about them shipping the 737s by rail. That would be cool to see, especially the street running part
The NS Airline yard in Toledo had that many tracks at one time, but over the years, some have been removed.
The best part is getting twelve trains to cross at the same time.
You must hurry up, if the red lights comming on! Great horn action, thanks for it.
I've seen crossroads with many roads but this is insane
Nice one Jawtooth! I been there several times railfanning.
Definitely a first for me ive never seen a crossing with 12 tracks
There is a railroad crossing in Wichita that has 14 tracks.
If trains pass by here every 5 minutes, i would be sitting close by all day every day
A very good video..I really like your adventure with this trains 😀
wow very nice. Long ago there was a crossing like that in St Louis Mo :-) thanks btw it was abandoned and put bridge in
Lowelleville Ohio used to have a huge crossing, don't remember how many tracks. It was the entrance to P&LE RR Gateway yard.
You should head to Griffith Indiana. The 7 track crossing on board street is a train watcher paradise.
Middle of the nite I’m scanning my iPad and you show up ,I missed this vid when it first came out so wait there’s more. Haha, I had to google this spot to see its pretty amazing ,nice country too I’m upstate ny small village so we’re doing ok with Coronavirus half lock down like everyone else you stay safe and as usual I’ll be looking for more of. Jawtooth, thank you my friend,keep up the good work !
Thanks for watching! I was just looking at Google Maps for upstate New York. I looked at a few spots while I was reading some train magazines
Jaw Tooth there’s lots of spots you could spend a month around New York City tons of movement with Conn. Mass. all New England lines work their way to and around the city. I live upstate a couple miles north of Mohawk River (40 mi. ) n. w. Of Albany main line runs along the River from Buffalo to NYC. If you ever come north pick summer or fall .winter is a little rougher than what your used to. I’m sure you could deal with it, but it’s more enjoyable in good weather ! Thanks for the reply !
Man that second train horn echo beautiful that looks like a cool place to be
Thank you man and have a nice day
Imagine what the sign manufacture said when Norfolk Southern asked for a sign that says "12 tracks"....
RRIA AMERICA. What about replacing the whole thing
Matt scheerschmidt you know how to the railroad crossings with two tracks has a sign saying there are two tracks between the first crossing and the second one? Well it's that sign but it says 12 tracks.
I've never seen a railroad crossing with that many tracks before first time actually
Well that’s amazing! But I think they should change the road name from Emory Gap Rd. to Memory Gap Rd. because you can’t remember how many tracks you’ve crossed!
What is the Guinness World Record for the number of tracks???
amazing video jaw tooth there should be 2 crossing gates on both sides of grade crossing ! :
This is the longest one I’ve seen after watching this video. I’m gonna go visit it now. The biggest one I’ve seen had 8, but I don’t remember where it was at. I think I was just a kid when we went over that.
Always enjoy your videos. Thanks!
Nice.awesome railroadcrossing.👌✌
Looks like a rail yard. There's one like it heading into Long Beach, CA. It has the black top road cutting across also, but isn't a public thoroughfare!!
ACu at the very beginning! Nice job! @JawTooth
Great post, now that's what I call a crossing!
Back in the day, the Boston Street grade crossing in Baltimore, Maryland had a crap ton of tracks at a grade crossing. I'm not sure if it was 12 though, but close. That was many years ago, they may have put in an overpass by now...................
Interesting dilemma.. you're driving a loaded truck just started across,the gate comes down behind you. What do you do? Keep going, back up or jump out and run??
There is an 8-track crossing in Japan. All lines are main lines, and there are so many trains on all the lines that the gate open times are few and very short. YT is not letting me post the link, so search YT for "Worst Railway Crossing in Japan" and you'll find it.
I’d love to see the other side in action!
very cool. 12 tracks? Holy cow!
Amazing video 👍👍👍🏆🏆🎉🎉🎉
There’s one similar in Chesapeake, VA at Norfolk Southern’s Portlock Yard at the yards mouth.
Totally AWESOME 👏😎
Thanks 😁
You cross 11 tracks going through the middle of the BNSF yard in Topeka, KS. Another long bumpy ride.
You were right Jaw Tooth this is live action
I only seen an 8 track railroad grade crossing on the CN line some where in Michigan.
Nice sounding horn at 1:00 i wish my car had a horn like that.
I think the most I've seen is seven tracks. Good find!
That is astonishing! Great Video!
This is the most awesome of them all!!!!