TrainmanKight wrote:National Electric Gate Company saver needs to re-look at their sear pins and springs are a bit too rigid. Thae city also needs photo enforcement like Webster Groves, Mo has. Also what about that idiot waving at the train, yah an Amtrak at 79MPH is going to stop in 1,000 feet, sure!
Brilliant! Why didn't the truck driver just stay put?
Lucky for the camera guy the train was on the outside track from where he was. Otherwise, pieces of that gate might have been flying towards him.
The truck drive shouldn't have moved forward to begin with, but once he busted through the gate, he was on the track and committed to getting off the track, at that point because a big truck just can't back up(no rear view mirror) he made the best decision to gun it off the track.
The weirdest thing to me is that crossing has L.E.D. gate lights however NS doesn't use L.E.D.s
I guess Alabama Great Southern Railroad a subsidiary of NS doesn't follow NS standards.
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Well fiber glass bends well but snaps easy.
Surprised a single direction (NEG)gate saver would allow a gate to go that far back.
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JSMcD Blvd is an awful grade crossing, When I was a kid I saw a box truck take out the same gate trying to beat the train, but this-this one I'm still Scratching my head on this one.
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The violator seems awfully happy about receiving and paying a ticket.
For a few of them it should show them all banged up with crutches.
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Dumb, but I can see some mitigating circumstances. There doesn't appear to be any side lights on the crossing signal for eastbound Jefferson St. traffic making a left turn onto northbound 23rd St., as this vehicle was doing. In the street view, I also don't see a light-up "NO LEFT TURN" sign mounted to the traffic light cantilever.
When you're making a left turn, you're looking for oncoming (westbound, in this case) traffic, not a train coming up behind you over your left shoulder.
Brilliant! Why didn't the truck driver just stay put?
