(VERY RARE!) Abandoned Railroad Crossing (150 W #1, Limedale, IN)
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This. Is. Awesome. Please don't ever get removed. Originally a spur on the Terre Haute, Brazil, & Eastern Railroad (THB&E). Located at a cement plant in Limedale, IN.
Great video and find! I really like some of the odd crossings which can be found on industrial spurs.
Thanks! Me too!
This will happen where spurs separate from mainlines. There was a similar case where the CSX feeder line to the Morgantown power plant met the old US Government feeder line (now the Western Charles Rail Trail). There are some partially-pulled Federal Signal light sets along the Western Charles Rail Trail - I have to get pictures of them so you can see them - one is on MD 224 (Livingston Road), and another is on MD 225 (Hawthorne Road) where the tracks (and now the Rail Trail) crosses each state road. The WCRT runs between White Plains and Indian Head, MD. The tracks themselves are gone, and the WCRT itself is now maintained by the Charles County Department of Public Facilities. I remember when the feeder line actually had train traffic - I'm not THAT old; the trains stopped running SINCE I became an adult. The ONLY complete light and gate set (also Federal Signal) was completely pulled by CSX - where the eastern end of that feeder line met the CSX feed line to the Morgantown power station (which is still active, and has changed hands three times just since 1990 when Potomac Electric Power got out of the power-generation business) - that line crossed US 301 (Robert Crain Highway) in White Plains. The building that abuts the WCRT is a former Lower's Home Improvement - it is now occupied by the Charles County Department of Health.
Nice find! Looks like that was installed by an industries that is/was there. The bell is likely a custom job, it seems.
Thanks! That's exactly what I was thinking. Rather odd. It appeared that cement plant there was the only industry as well because the road is called Co Rd 150 and Cement Plant Road.
Great find and thanks for sharing. Next time go out there with an impact driver and a wire cutter and it can be yours. LOL
Thanks! Maybe I will! LOLOL
THE BELL WAS USED TO GET THE DRIVERS ATTENTION WHEN TRAIN IS APPROACHING
Yea?
I used to spot grain cars on that track in the late 80's
Compare this to the new one. My we all have grown up so fast
If that railroad was still active 👁👅👁
Ikr
Nice find! I might visit that crossing sometime! I live in Illinois, right next to Indiana!
I wonder what kind of bar the crossings had to connect the lights, most likely a custom job! Beautiful find, Odd crossings!
Great video. Those transport products light kinda look like Australia’s old Mck&h lights . Odd bells. Usually if I can’t find any markings or logos on the base I’d say it’s a unmarked base . I also upload railway/railroad crossing videos.
Thanks! Nice.
The bells are Federal Signal "Vibratones"
www.fedsig.com/product/vibratone-bells
The signals use traffic light bases instead of normal crossing signal bases. The signals are also yellow most likely to catch people's attention or because it's in an industrial area. The only strange thing is that there aren't any crossbucks.
Thank you very much for the info!
*I checked the Federal Railroad Administration's database and none of these crossings are showing up. My guess is, these spurs were taken out sometime in the 70s. I checked some historic aerials from 1969 and there are multiple spurs active there at that time with visible rail cars. So it was being used in 1969. Those spurs look like they lead to railroad tracks on what is now called "Putnam Nature Trail". No railroad tracks are there now. Unfortunately, I can't find any aerials from the 70s or 80s. The next entry is from 1998 and those tracks are long gone. The fact that those private crossings never were in the DOT database means the tracks probably got ripped out before better government enforcement of railroad records in the late 70s and beyond.*
There are only 3 closed crossings in the DOT database for Limedale, IN. They are:
Crossing DOT# 540387B Manhattan Road.
Crossing DOT# 540388H Buzzard Roost RD.
Crossing DOT# 540489P Moore Road.
It would've got ripped up around the early 90s
There are abandoned signals in our town (line hasnt been used for 10 years). They are just left there
What town?
Gametrain Productions it's not in the USA lol
Posted on my birthday!
That is 100% a fire alarm bell
They're Federal Signal Vibratone bells which aren't used as fire bells.
L&N used transport products lights. They also used school bells like these to lower costs.
They weren't the only one who used Transport Products lights, and these aren't the same bells they used.
@@kyleb06 oh ok
These signals would've been installed by the industry there.
It seems like the tracks have been removed into weeds and the X sign is missing too.
Tracks were removed, crossbucks never existed.
Chances are that the crossbucks may have sat below the signals on the main road.
@@kyleb06 why are there no train tracks?
Where is the tracks?!, They have three signal, light is transport products, two bells, third signal it has three lights transport projects corp eight inch lights, and there’s a stop sign a third signal, it abandoned railroad crossing, he looked around.
The tracks were removed.
My guess is this was a home-made "kit-bashed" signal system installed by the industry served by a private spur.
Yeah for sure.
The first signal likely had a bell at one time. I'm pretty sure that would be standard as per DOT rules.
It's not standard. There are many crossings here in Indiana that have no bells.
Nice video! :)
Thanks!
Amazing Find!
Thanks!
Looks like something the Monon used back in it's days.
Would've been installed by this plant, but this spur does connect to a former Monon, now CSX line.
You should contact that company to see if u can maybe buy it or something
It'd be neat.
yeah those lights r super old
I wonder what the bell sounds like
th-cam.com/video/BkWijHRFjXw/w-d-xo.html Skip to the latter part of the video.
there is a video link when the train crossing is still on
Link?
Wait, the video got deleted ssry
AWESOME!!!
Thanks!
I wouldn’t be surprised if buses stopped there
Maybe.
What year did it operate, and what year did it become abandoned?
Not sure the exact year but probably abandoned sometime in the 90s.
Cool who's tracks on the mainline belong to
wow noice how old do u think it is?
Thanks! Don't know but definitley old. At least the 70s or 60s.
really? I was thinking more 60s at most
I think that’s a fire alarm bell
Most likely a custom job by the cement plant.
Awesome
Thanks!
That’s insane! Which city is this in?
Limedale, IN.
There’s a roblox game on this look it up on roblox I’ve played it
I know.
Gametrain Productions oh
i made it! 😁
@@clarkingtonatortron I’m so sure
@@Mentor_Ohio_Railfanning 2 games related to this, I played the 1st one which is the original, and then I made my own.
Noice find
Thanks!
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What’s year of that Railroad crossing???
Wat.
How does this have so many views
Because it's cool.
Gametrain Productions ik it is
How it switch on?
You can't, lol.
I bet you think you sound cringy in this video.
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