Crossing Malfuction/Fails Sightings

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Here's a really weird crossing malfunction that I've never seen before.
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Rock Hill Rd. In Webster Groves, MO sometimes does a tail-ring after a slow eastbound. This one was especially bad
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XVuN2v1N-88&t=679s
It’s at 11:10
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UnionPacific4Life wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2019 8:15 am Rock Hill Rd. In Webster Groves, MO sometimes does a tail-ring after a slow eastbound. This one was especially bad
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XVuN2v1N-88&t=679s
It’s at 11:10
Ah, the classic tail-ring malfunction.
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ZachL wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2019 10:48 am
UnionPacific4Life wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2019 8:15 am Rock Hill Rd. In Webster Groves, MO sometimes does a tail-ring after a slow eastbound. This one was especially bad
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XVuN2v1N-88&t=679s
It’s at 11:10
Ah, the classic tail-ring malfunction.
Yep. I think it has been fixed
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One of the gates on this crossing has been bent back slightly further than it's original angle, and so it doesn't lower in the correct position.
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How often do you see an UP/Electro-Tech led malfunction? My friend has caught this led malfunction at Vermont Ave. UP has since fixed the led light, but the crossing still has the malfunction that happens after a train passes.
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Nascar Fan007 wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:25 am
How often do you see an UP/Electro-Tech led malfunction? My friend has caught this led malfunction at Vermont Ave. UP has since fixed the led light, but the crossing still has the malfunction that happens after a train passes.
Yeah that's just the camera's refresh rate on the LED light, not the light itself.

Also the tail-ring malfunction. Happens at quite a few crossings.
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ZachL wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:46 pm
Nascar Fan007 wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:25 am
How often do you see an UP/Electro-Tech led malfunction? My friend has caught this led malfunction at Vermont Ave. UP has since fixed the led light, but the crossing still has the malfunction that happens after a train passes.
Yeah that's just the camera's refresh rate on the LED light, not the light itself.

Also the tail-ring malfunction. Happens at quite a few crossings.
I've seen a messed-up Electro-tech LED before that didn't really light-up when it was supposed to. The LEDs don't seem to have that great of quality control, given the number that "fade", it seems like.
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I don't know if this does count, but after this collision with a train, the crossing tail rings.
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The flasher relay's on this crossing freeze as soon as the signals activate.
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