What do they mean?
Why not mount them on the grade crossing signals, as here, and not go to the extra expen$e of separate foundations and masts, etc.?
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Nice documentation and thoughful photos.
Why are those signals not facing down the track?
Interesting heads - whatever you call them.
In Denver, they used the regular 8-1/4-inch grade crossing signal lamps with blue lens for drag/derail detectors.
That's what I expected here for grade crossing signal activation indicators.
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SouthernPacificLines wrote:...Yeah, VCRR is removing most of the older signals from there line.
Go gethem!
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Those folding gates like that must be a nightmare to a maintainer... especially if you have a lot of impatient drivers wanting to drive off right away as the gates rise. Love the mechanical bells though, like music to my ears.
In the first video, I would have pulled into that lefturn lane and stopped and continued videoing.
Then, afterward, if no traffic behind, signaled right and proceeded straight.
(Or turned left and then gotten back onto Wooley.)
Good (difficult) shot through the back window!
So, top blinks white, independent of crossing signal blinking lamps.
What does bottom lamp do?
I have never seen such a folding gate. What was above that made them make it folding?
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PaulSP wrote:Nope that's the ONLY signal on that crossing.
However the traffic lights also "protect" the intersection by going red 4 ways when a train is present, correct? That signal and gate is to stop people from making a right turn into the path of a train.
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PaulSP wrote:Nope that's the ONLY signal on that crossing.
However the traffic lights also "protect" the intersection by going red 4 ways when a train is present, correct?
Yup thats how it works but people ALWAYS ignore them.
When I saw that intersection back in the 90's, I recall signals all over the place. Wonderful but could be confusing to some.
What is so stange now is the SINGLE signal, also flashing all the way across the intersection to the southbound traffic, with gate dropping behind it.
I expected everyone to receive a RED traffic signal. Westbound traffic would have straight GREEN arrows and southbound could turn right on red.
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