To: AnAmericanMother
Most gated US crossings used to have four gates. They went away from that when they were fully automated.
I am partial to gates that move horizontally and close off the railroad to trespassers when open for road traffic, but I don’t know of any of this type that got automated; these were/are operated by manually turning a wheel in the signal tower. (This is in Clonsilla, in northern Dublin in Ireland.)
58 posted on
02/21/2018 2:05:21 PM PST by
Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Most gated US crossings used to have four gates. They went away from that when they were fully automated. That must be back in the days of Thiele the Crossing-Keeper, dude sitting in the guard shack listening for the whistle on the down train . . . pretty much well before I was born, and I'm 62 . . .
75 posted on
02/26/2018 10:57:14 AM PST by
AnAmericanMother
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