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Most extreme/bizarre railroad crossings

Started by index, June 23, 2023, 02:52:35 AM

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TheCatalyst31

Quote from: dantheman on June 23, 2023, 07:16:02 PMThe crossing at the University Ave/Campus Drive split in Madison, WI is pretty bad. The angle might not be as badly oblique as some of the others on this thread, but the number of lanes and the adjacent intersection make it interesting. https://goo.gl/maps/21mq3N2onFVgu4S7A

This is especially bad for bicyclists, because there is a small downhill in the eastbound direction on the University Ave approach to the intersection. I once watched someone go over the handlebars here at about 20 mph. He walked away (the front wheel was bent up pretty badly) but I always wondered if he needed any dental work afterwards.

Madison has a few others... while it was removed years ago, the siding for coal deliveries to the old UW heating/power plant used to result in trains blocking Charter Street for a solid 15 minutes as they approached from the east, stopped, and backed into the coal plant. On the other side of town, the tracks run diagonally through the Blair/Wilson/John Nolen/Williamson intersection. https://goo.gl/maps/8ufEPrPQjyitE3S89

The John Nolen/Olin intersection also has tracks running through it diagonally, though at least one leg of that intersection is just the entrance to a park. Bonus danger points for not having a gate on the bike path, though.

Northeast of Madison, there are two grade crossings on a four-lane, 65 MPH section of US 151. They're definitely active crossings too; here's a video of the Beaver Dam crossing in action.


CovalenceSTU

There's also this crossing on the freeway segment of WA-432, which had regular train traffic until a few years back.



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