freebrickproductions wrote:One of the gates here failed to get all the way up:
Looks like the gate itself was bent and the arm was all the way up.
I think your right... although it looks like to me that it was caught on the "wind guard". It must have just been enough to not allow the signals to shut off.
When the gates lower for the train, you can see the gate kind of jerk forward as it pulls loose of what it was caught on. Although it didn't get caught again after the train passed, I'm willing to bet it will again if the conditions are right.
I captured this malfunction with a pedestrian gate at Little River, Victoria the other day. The gates fail to deactivate after the train has passed and remain stuck until the train has cleared the entire signal block:
Wall Triana Highway here in Huntsville recently had this odd malfunction where the lights didn't come on until after the train passes, as seen in this video made by a friend:
Also, as a side note, James Record Road now has a dead bell.
NathanFromEngland wrote:
It also malfunctioned during a tornado in June 2015 when the power went out. Skip to 8:34
That was pretty crazy footage! I think the crossing actually went into a fail-safe mode when the power went out, not a malfunction.
Fail safe mode would not include the lights flashing and all that. The gates will simply lower because the crossing has no power and the battery has died.
My guess in this case is that the tracks may have been struck by lightening and triggered and false activation. I've seen this happen before during a severe storm.
