Dickey Road Abandoned & Active Railroad Crossings Tour, East Chicago, IN. (North Harbor)

[@jasonervoes1326]

Hi Great video nice catch. Did they remove that abandoned railroad crossing? Do these freight trains have cabooses?

[@SignalMan9292]

5:52 that’s actually a RECO box which is older than safetran

[@damon810railfan]

RACO* And honestly it wouldn't make much sense why there would be a RACO box on a Safetran cantilever, since RACO is actually the predecessor to Safetran. And oddly enough, Siemens does share the same logo with RACO, and I know this since I seen so many new cantilevers with this same logo

[@SignalMan9292]

Siemens always puts the word Siemens on their stuff. RACO always puts an Iron Rail as their logo.

[@damon810railfan]

@@SignalMan9292 yeah, that is true, Siemens tends to stamp on their lettering on everything, but for some applications, Siemens also uses a rail iron for their logo. I know its a bit confusing and thats what i thought at first, but the main difference between the Siemens and RACO rail iron logo is that RACO has their lettering and slogan around the Iron and circle, while Siemens has little to no lettering revolving the logo

[@csxtrainfan319]

I’ve seen something similar to this with multiple railroad crossings side by side abandoned and active. Do you remember in part 5 of abandoned railroad crossings on Hwy 86 in Piedmont SC?

[@damon810railfan]

yeah I remember, kinda looks like it

[@csxtrainfan319]

Yeah it does except for the active line in Piedmont is owned by CSX.

[@BNSF2012]

I actually saw a crossing that looks similar to this but was in Baltimore Maryland the tracks were removed but it still was up still had its lights I also caught one in the same location but this one had no lights and it only had one light and it also has tracks leading to nowhere

[@wheelsjlgc]

I'm familiar with those railroad crossings from dickey road to Michigan avenue to Chicago avenue to 148th street 149th street and 151st

[@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan]

The first one is my favorite signal of all time the CO type cantilever signal originally developed by Griswold and later by Raco there was a time when north central Texas, had these signals in great abundance most of them were Gateless sadly, the gateless signals were replaced over time, the very last crossing that has the CO tape cantilever signal is a pair of signals with gates, protecting Highway 51 in downtown Granbury Texas adjacent to the old railroad depot

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

Horns that you heard were further north toward lake That of course being the old New York Central B&O Pennsylvania. Later Conrail now Norfolk Southern Amtrak that runs right along the lake there also goes to Michigan back to buy you the wolverine. Along with the lake shore limited and a whole lot more to New York

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

If some railroad tracks or crossings are abandoned, and nobody's using them, why are they still in existence? Why aren't they just torn up, the way old abandoned buildings are torn down?

[@damon810railfan]

Most likely because nobody has the courage nor the money to take it down at the moment, so the railroads just leave it up for as long as until they feel like tearing it up. I'm positive that its a pain in the neck to tear up rails and even signals altogether anyway, and probably a bit expensive too

[@TheMW2informer]

Usually the railroad waits until the local road is resurfaced or has road work, then the crossing is removed.

[@ne6292]

Cool

[@AtlanticCoastRailfanner]

Pffft, d i c k e y road. this is neat lol

[@AlexNunes-z6v]

That's super cool location very cool abandoned railroad crossing 🛤 there ❤ the location under the overpass

[@MittenStateRailfanProductions]

That nameof the road tho... 💀

[@damon810railfan]

yeah lol if you can't tell I was trying to hold back a mixture of cringing and laughter at the same time when I was making this video, hence why I got into the initial tour quickly lol But oh well, maybe the boyos over here ran out of street names.. probably lol

[@oscaralvarezproductions2430]

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