Recent photo (yes, mine) of the above:
“Looking southeast 5:00 PM Thurs. 18 August 2011 - road is “new” Rt. 522 Bypass, “Croghan Pike”. Southeast side of Mt. Union, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, at approx. these Lat./ Long. coords.:
N 40.37632 - W 77.87160”
I have a few other photos of it, but I believe they wouldn’t add much more information.
More information from another thread here - “Cities closing grade crossings without railroad permission” - see post dated 06-15-2010, at:
http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/175330.aspx?PageIndex=1
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TomDiehl:
Oddly, in Mount Union PA we had the opposite happen. A new cutoff for PA Route 522 bypassing Mount Union was put in several years ago. At one point, it crossed the approach to the East Broad Top yards (dual gauge) and there was debate about what to do. Two factors came into play: 1) The East Broad Top is a registered National Historic Landmark, and 2) A small upstart, called the Mount Union Connecting Railroad, was attempting to reopen rail service to an industrial park in Allenport to a connection with the former Pennsy, now Norfolk Southern. Probably the newest rail on the East Broad Top and one of the most modern dual gauge crossings around.
This is to the southeast side of Mount Union, where that new bypass down the east side - E. Chestnut St. - drops down from 22/ 522 on the north side, and ties into ‘old’ 522 / E. Shirley St., with a ‘Y’ type intersection - right