Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

The overpass construction advances. This 60 plus year old US&S is on very borrowed time.

Since this crossing is on borrowed time... they obviously really don't care much about the stripes on that gate either!

cabman701 wrote:Since this crossing is on borrowed time... they obviously really don't care much about the stripes on that gate either!

Is it wrong to mix new with the old?

I don't think there is anything legally wrong with it... just looks kind of tacky in my personal opinion. Won't be an issue much longer unfortunately.

cabman701 wrote:I don't think there is anything legally wrong with it... just looks kind of tacky in my personal opinion. Won't be an issue much longer unfortunately.

Looks more than tacky but who cares in that location looks like the gates get nailed a lot. Thats defiantly a new section, aluminum is much stronger than fiber glass so usually the fiber glass gate is tore to shreds while the aluminum section is in good enough condition to reuse.