Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

freebrickproductions wrote:From YouTube, this guy caught a train hitting (and destroying) a gate at a crossing because the new gate that had gotten installed here was too long:

Not much more can be said about that.

freebrickproductions wrote:From YouTube, this guy caught a train hitting (and destroying) a gate at a crossing because the new gate that had gotten installed here was too long:

That GS Type 1 sounds...interesting.

While not a broken gate, here's a video on someone who lifted a gate at a crossing in Glenroy, allowing cars to go through while the crossing was active.

TrickyMario7654 wrote:While not a broken gate, here's a video on someone who lifted a gate at a crossing in Glenroy, allowing cars to go through while the crossing was active.

Was that a malfunctioning crossing, though? Still, I know it's illegal to lift gates like that even in the incident of a malfunction.

Also, haha at the lady that said "the lights...they're not in sync"

ZachL wrote:

TrickyMario7654 wrote:While not a broken gate, here's a video on someone who lifted a gate at a crossing in Glenroy, allowing cars to go through while the crossing was active.

Was that a malfunctioning crossing, though? Still, I know it's illegal to lift gates like that even in the incident of a malfunction.

Also, haha at the lady that said "the lights...they're not in sync"

The gates apparently tend to get stuck down at Glenroy for some reason. A similar thing happens at McGregor Road when both platforms are occupied at the station and a third train is coming, it has to wait for one of the trains at the station to leave before it can enter...

Here's a crossing gate getting torn off by a truck due to a tail-ring malfunction:

freebrickproductions wrote:Here's a crossing gate getting torn off by a truck due to a tail-ring malfunction:

That is why the lights stay on when the gates rise.

ToledoRailfan wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:Here's a crossing gate getting torn off by a truck due to a tail-ring malfunction:

That is why the lights stay on when the gates rise.

Well yeah, but good luck trying to convey that message across to the 99% of motorists that proceed when the gates rise.

One of the gates here hits the top of an SUV that stopped under it:

Here's a few in this news report. (Also includes many people being idiots around crossings!)