Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

MD2020 wrote:

Well submit it then. No big deal, just thought you'd like to see them.

YOU are the owner of the picture its your call which one to submit

TRAINMANKIGHT wrote:Statesboro GA
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It's all coming back to me now. I remember the cantilever that is slanted with the tracks very sharply. It's been awhile, but this crossing was posted on here at some point.

On the prints, it is actually supposed to be about 10-15 feet further away from the tracks than it is now, for some unknown reason, some dumbasses moved it to it's present location well before I came along, and there it sits in all it's retarded glory. (You can see on the ground in the aireal photo I provided, the old location it was at) I got the gate arm barely fitting between the cantilever and the train when down, with only a few feet to spare between the two, to block off the main road and the turn lane. I had to use NEG LED gate lights on that particular gate arm, so I could swivel them around to face traffic.

Hell, when I first got there, at least half the bulbs were burned out, one gate mech didn't work, 2 of the gate arms didn't have gate lights, and none of the bells worked. ...Ask Owens about this crossing, he has helped me out on this one a lot.

Here is a video of us going through this crossing in the train. The bells ring when the gates are down, I set them this way on the urging of Owens, due to the unique-ness of the setup, and there are also a few entrances that don't have gates.

Also, this is a big "Island" crossing, where the train has to stop, get on the island, then proceed through after the gates are down. This is by design, due to there being a railroad crossover, they have to stop and look for any possible conflicting movents.



Love that horn valve!

Here is my contribution: Brown ST. in Divernon, IL is activated by the signal maintainer for monthly inspections. The bell is really quiet is apparently too big for the pole.

If it is E-bells you want, then its E-bells you got at Bealville:

Cheers,
Joshua

I haven't seen any 8' lights here yet, or active 8' lights that is.

bnsflover wrote:If it is E-bells you want, then its E-bells you got at Bealville:

Yay, the dumbass maintainer installed the gate upside down.

SouthernPacificLines wrote:Here's my submission.

WOW, Y'all have a LOT of dumbass signal maintainers out there. Geez. See why the new gate arms are verticle striped?