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Re: Crossing Gate Contact
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:47 pm
by TrainmanKight
MD2020 wrote: You get some contractors doing installs on shortlines and such, falsely claiming 480' is good for 10MPH,.
HAHA had a crossing that had a 450' on a 15 MPH track with a PMD 3R, I could kill whoever set that one up
500' is the shortest approach you should have for 10mph track
Re: Crossing Gate Contact
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:31 pm
by cabman701
Boy I'm glad she stopped... she might have damaged that awesome looking van of hers.
Re: Crossing Gate Contact
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:08 pm
by SirKrunch
Or balanced it out... One cracked headlamp deserves another.
Re: Crossing Gate Contact
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 4:22 pm
by TrainmanKight
http://goo.gl/maps/AGCb
http://www.wtvm.com/story/18863736/frei ... t-on-video
1:19 Whats left of the relay case.
Wonder if that Harmon Motion Detector/Predictor still works.
Re: Crossing Gate Contact
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:48 pm
by MD2020
It was a PMD-1
Re: Crossing Gate Contact
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 12:29 am
by TrainmanKight
MD2020 wrote:It was a PMD-1
Looks like it, NS was a big user of them. Did NS ever use HXP-1?
Re: Crossing Gate Contact
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 3:31 am
by MD2020
Attempted HXP's for a very short time, with only a few units, then quickly went to Safetran, and have been ever since.
Re: Crossing Gate Contact
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:19 am
by TrainmanKight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX_5WaLWLtM
Looks like it got hit by a train too. I hate fiberglass gates, if it was aluminum the spring saver would have most likely saved the gate.
Re: Crossing Gate Contact
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:17 am
by Crossbuck_Chuck
I saw this chase as it happened in San Bernardino/Rialto. Watch the very beginning as the guy shoots right through an active and operating crossing. The gate flies right off the mechanism.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local ... 21181.html
Re: Crossing Gate Contact
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:35 pm
by TrainmanKight
Damn that looks like how I drive
Why does CHP and Local police not chase them down, they just follow them around seeing how much crap they can tear up.
This is how you do it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... Q3B8#t=14s 
The Aurora gate lights are some tough gate lights, but fiberglass gates suck you can see the gate snap in half. A WCH Gate saver probably would have saved a full aluminum gate like that at that speed.
http://goo.gl/maps/3CF89
Guess he learned how much one of them gates can F
K up you car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... Zq4#t=172s