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Re: Crossing Gate Contact

Postby TrainmanKight » Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:47 pm

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 :Roll:
500' is the shortest approach you should have for 10mph track :cool:
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Re: Crossing Gate Contact

Postby cabman701 » Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:31 pm



Boy I'm glad she stopped... she might have damaged that awesome looking van of hers. :Tongue1:
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Re: Crossing Gate Contact

Postby SirKrunch » Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:08 pm

Or balanced it out... One cracked headlamp deserves another.
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Re: Crossing Gate Contact

Postby TrainmanKight » Thu Jun 28, 2012 4:22 pm

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.
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Re: Crossing Gate Contact

Postby MD2020 » Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:48 pm

It was a PMD-1
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Re: Crossing Gate Contact

Postby TrainmanKight » Fri Jun 29, 2012 12:29 am

MD2020 wrote:It was a PMD-1

Looks like it, NS was a big user of them. Did NS ever use HXP-1?
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Re: Crossing Gate Contact

Postby MD2020 » Fri Jun 29, 2012 3:31 am

Attempted HXP's for a very short time, with only a few units, then quickly went to Safetran, and have been ever since.
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Re: Crossing Gate Contact

Postby TrainmanKight » Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:19 am

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.
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Re: Crossing Gate Contact

Postby Crossbuck_Chuck » Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:17 am

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

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Re: Crossing Gate Contact

Postby TrainmanKight » Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:35 pm

Crossbuck_Chuck wrote: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

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Damn that looks like how I drive :LOL3:
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=player_detailpage&v=s0-rST5Q3B8#t=14s :Clap:

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 :Censored: K up you car :Roll:
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