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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To: AnAmericanMother
Some of the hand-cranked crossing gates lasted into the 1960s. The ones in this photograph, in Jersey City (today’s PATH tracks; they used to be shared with Pennsylvania RR trains from Exchange Place, as shown in this photo from 1961), were in use until the crossing was closed in 1967.
76 posted on
02/26/2018 11:09:48 AM PST by
Olog-hai
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