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Posted by Broadway Lion on Wed Apr 8 15:39:34 2020 
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Posted by AlM on Wed Apr 8 15:49:13 2020, in response to GRADE CROSSING SAFETY, posted by Broadway Lion on Wed Apr 8 15:39:34 2020. That seems to cover all the bases. |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Wed Apr 8 15:55:07 2020, in response to GRADE CROSSING SAFETY, posted by Broadway Lion on Wed Apr 8 15:39:34 2020. The gates are down, the lights are flashing, and idiots will still go around the gates. |
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Posted by AlM on Wed Apr 8 16:25:19 2020, in response to Re: GRADE CROSSING SAFETY, posted by TransitChuckG on Wed Apr 8 15:55:07 2020. But it's a full-width gate. Not really possible to drive around. And nobody in North Dakota walks. |
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Posted by Joe V on Wed Apr 8 17:32:51 2020, in response to Re: GRADE CROSSING SAFETY, posted by AlM on Wed Apr 8 16:25:19 2020. Full width there or not, 2 Midwest Charger engines are out of service indefinitely due to grade crossing wrecks, and Siemens says they won't have needed body parts available for 2 years. |
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Posted by Aaron on Wed Apr 8 20:06:35 2020, in response to Re: GRADE CROSSING SAFETY, posted by TransitChuckG on Wed Apr 8 15:55:07 2020. and die... |
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Posted by Dave on Wed Apr 8 22:05:48 2020, in response to Re: GRADE CROSSING SAFETY, posted by Joe V on Wed Apr 8 17:32:51 2020. Two years? WTF?! |
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Posted by Joe V on Thu Apr 9 07:22:15 2020, in response to Re: GRADE CROSSING SAFETY, posted by Dave on Wed Apr 8 22:05:48 2020. Shitty maintenance contract Amtrak has with Siemens, completely different scene than with Brightline.Actually a 3rd Midwest Charger got bashed up too. It was on the lead of California Zephyr and rammed a dump truck at a crossing in Nevada about a month ago. The 2 regular Gennies hauled it back to Chicago with train 6. |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Thu Apr 9 11:56:41 2020, in response to Re: GRADE CROSSING SAFETY, posted by Joe V on Wed Apr 8 17:32:51 2020. The photo was not in North Dakota, it was published in Progressive Railroading. What I found interesting was they Yellow sign warning that trains would pass at over 80 mph.Closer to home, I was down by the tracks where a sign for a side track that made the crossing next to the maine lion informing the crew to wait 26 seconds before proceeding past the sign. Sure give time for the gates to go down. but 26 seconds. Why not 30 seconds? 79 mph... 26 seconds... Railroads like weird numbers. |
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Posted by AlM on Thu Apr 9 12:43:18 2020, in response to Re: GRADE CROSSING SAFETY, posted by Broadway Lion on Thu Apr 9 11:56:41 2020. The yellow sign is excellent. It's very easy to misjudge a train's speed, and especially to think that it couldn't possibly be going that fast.79 mph makes sense. Someone wrote a rule saying "On all tracks where speeds of 80 mph or more are allowed, the following regulations shall apply." |
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Posted by Joe V on Thu Apr 9 13:00:31 2020, in response to Re: GRADE CROSSING SAFETY, posted by AlM on Thu Apr 9 12:43:18 2020. 79 came about due to a wreck in Illinois in the 1950's, and the rule was written to be "under 80". |
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Posted by randyo on Thu Apr 9 17:45:31 2020, in response to Re: GRADE CROSSING SAFETY, posted by Broadway Lion on Thu Apr 9 11:56:41 2020. It might not be the RR’s fault but it may me that’s how long it actually takes the gates to go down. |
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