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I've been a few of these! 🤣 9 sucks, but when they're rare, you gotta do it!

Nice video!

Great catch nice crossing and video

As a train driver myself i find pretty scary that the operator doesn't know in advance that the crossing is actually working. In Switzerland we have either a yellow flashing light to tell us the crossing is fully closed and operational or sometimes the crossing is even linked with the track signals meaning the train cannot start moving before the crossing is closed. Either way if the crossing malfunctions i have enough time to come to a safe stop before the road.

1:11 That is a very rare gong sound

Hey its the lionsomething something coinbank from the commercial 😂

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One time the crossing gates lowered but no train was coming!

It’s not legacy detection, just a simple island only crossing. Supposed to stop and wait 20 seconds so FRA minimum 20 second warning time can be provided

My favourite is the National Electric Gate Electronic mostly because I grew up with those ones and they sound clean.

I pass this crossing everyday on old 183 going to work at the HEB down to road. I used to cross this crossing daily when I used to work for LISD as Bus driver. but on occasion I run into the freight train at the old 183 crossing during my runs

Here’s what happened to me alot of times: I missed several HU’s or rare lash-ups. A foamer blocks my camera and screams over getting a hornshow. Missed Amtrak 160 once. The CSX OCS was coming but my parents said it was time to leave.

My favorite siren

Where I live, one grade crossing has become a quiet zone. Every time I approach that crossing, I put my hazard flashers on slow down, stop and check, just in case the mechanism is not working. I have wondered why there is no auxiliary train horn at the crossing. Would it still make too much noise for a quiet zone?

It is the responsibility of the signal maintainer to see that the signals are working. They are to be inspected monthly if not more often. Most, if not all signals have an 800 number for civilians to call and let the railroad know there’s a problem-- at least in the USA. Yes, things occasionally go wrong, but thank God they are rare. If you see a malfunctioning crossing signal, call the 800 number and report it.

The railroads are usually very careful with this because an accident resulting from a crossing failure, for which they would be liable, can cost them a great deal of money.

0:11 *foam*

Nice Catch of UP Autorack Train

Bro I railfan there!!

Was that a Car carrying train? looks like it would have new cars inside ?

3:40 It’s just painful to see those idiotic drivers not hearing the train horn😭😭

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Great video. The bells here sound not the best but ive heard worse

Nice crossing video. Good locale. Thanks!

What bell brand is this

What electronic bells did UP replace them with

Driven through Milano on my way to Tyler. 👍

Great catch nice crossing and video

I'm chiming in on this. You made statements regarding ample warning time. Sometimes we the train crew get general orders stating rather or not to flag the crossing. As long as the head and ditch lights are on, bell ringing, and horn blowing, you can proceed through the crossing at 10 mph, as long as you can see, that's no traffic impeding the crossing. Both cases earlier in the video, that's exactly what the crew was doing.

I rely on my eyes when approaching a crossing. Not just the signals.

I always look both ways when crossing railroad tracks....even those that are guarded by arms/lights....for this reason....crossing guard failures.

Couple of things. The trains are granted the right of way over all street vehicles. Most systems use a roadbed mounted transducer pointed up. They can fail into a SAFE condition, gates down-lights on. When they do fail people and police loose their minds. I had a crew get ticketed by local police as he waited for the next train to pass through. Tankers and busses are required to stop and look. Folks Might want to at least take a peek.

3:44 MERCY!! Ok, although the crossing signals _were_ majorly delayed, they still activated soon enough for the white SUV to see them, so that near miss is on the driver for trying to beat a train they couldn't even see until it was right on top of them(note the obstructions earlier on the right that block the train from view in that direction). Edit: The dashcam footage of the second incident helps reinforce my second point. Due to the obstructions, there's no way to see the train until you get close enough to the crossing. However, I will concede that given the relative higher speed of this road(which appears to be a highway), the white SUV in the first incident _might_ not've had enough time to stop. Still, I feel they could've tried.

activating just like the cheap HO scale crossings Also don't go until gates are up & lights stop flashing!

It like knows that someone would run the crossing and not stop

In canby, after the amtrak passes, thr gates stay lowered for over 1 minute and then go up. Single track. No 2nd train. But after a UP train passes, the gates go up after 5 seconds

Sad, Safetran type 1’s are VERY rare, here in MA we don’t got any!

Jeez! I’ve also seen that same malfunction in Reading before.

I live in a very rural area in northwestern Montana and have to cross a railroad track every day I never trust the signal equipment I always stop and look at both ways before proceeding

Most european countries use some kind of beacon signals, mostly white lights for the train Crew that indicates the crossing is properly closed. Most time these signals are about 300-500 meters in front of the crossing, depends on train speed. Alternative some crossings are locked with standard railroad signals.

In the town I grew up in, some kids wanted to see a train destroy an old car bumper they found. They laid it on a UP mainline track and it created a circuit that deactivated a nearby grade crossing. There was a collision and a woman was killed.

Quite a number of years ago, in Charlotte MI, a woman was killed at a crossing on the main E-W street of the city when the crossing signal failed to activate. Her car was struck by an Amtrak train as she drove through the crossing. A building hid the tracks to her right. The only way she would have seen the train coming would have been if she had been stopped by the signal just before the tracks.

Nice train horn salute as it gets closer to the crossing

Shunt probably went bad. It happens.

12x20 lights

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Not that stopping and looking both ways would help. Unless you're really stupid.

As a bus driver, this is why we have to stop. Keep honking, it’s cute.

Was taught in school, "Always stop, look, and listen "

Why do they call it a near-miss when it was a miss.