i thought railroad crossing are activated by completing a circular current on a segment of tracks. since the train's steel axles are conductors of electricity, the current is completed. the tracks must be flooded or some piece of metal debris is laying across the tracks...Just a thought,
My guess would be that wind set off the 'train approaching' sensor, but since no train ever was there to trip the gate dropping sensor/lever. I think anyone thats worked the rails could explain.
They didn't come down because of what they did. They had them on for warning. And there is no lever its all electrical current. When a train is coming the rails have a electrical current to the switch and thats what set off the signal. Now the gates never lowered because in the relay box they had it manually running the gates they had the service relay pulled out... In high winds they have a service mechanism. witch turn the service signals on... I know i work for Safetran.
@prgreg4090 The flood from the hurricane may have coused the crossing go off and the wind could have disabled the gates or the wind could have blown over the signal cabnet. P.S Is this at a train station or something?
I was a town over and I was sleeping through that.
GP49PHS 3 days ago
is it a malfunction
chrisc95367 2 weeks ago
@chrisc95367 read the top comments
wampaAWESOMEsauce 2 weeks ago
ah csx2665 thay go nomater whut so ha!
TheMonroefan 4 months ago
@TheMonroefan hahahaha
CSX2665 1 week ago
Railroad xing gates malfunction! This means a tornado warning is active currently. lol
ThePPPTrainAndCarFan 5 months ago
Thats cool. Great Video. Weird that the crossing did that.
dcarpine28 5 months ago
The wind was pushing the gates up.
moose030406 6 months ago
Actually, no.
CallaceAlfame 6 months ago
2005 was a horrible year for storms like this one. Dennis, Katrina, Ophelia, Rita, and Wilma are the notable ones.
Trainking922 8 months ago
An F40PH is coming. What? Why do you think they play "Rock Me Like A Hurricane"?
shadowknight227 8 months ago
lol wat would a train b doing in that kind of weather lol
CSX2665 10 months ago
i thought railroad crossing are activated by completing a circular current on a segment of tracks. since the train's steel axles are conductors of electricity, the current is completed. the tracks must be flooded or some piece of metal debris is laying across the tracks...Just a thought,
TheDylanJoyce 10 months ago
That must be a REALLY bad severe storm.
ekoslosky 1 year ago
i rember when thepower went out for like 2 week!
ApostolicLove 1 year ago
Wouldn't it be weird if a passenger car went flying down the tracks, being propelled by wind? That would be freaky, that's all I'm saying.
GonzoJam 1 year ago
Must be the 12:15 Inbound that got blown away from Jamaica...
(I don't know Wilma's path, so I just took a wild guess)
GonzoJam 1 year ago
NO BELLS
ekoslosky 1 year ago
That was pretty cool. Thanks for sharing. I'm just curious as to why the gates never came down? Were they going off solely because of wind?
Spyro22475 2 years ago
My guess would be that wind set off the 'train approaching' sensor, but since no train ever was there to trip the gate dropping sensor/lever. I think anyone thats worked the rails could explain.
prgreg4090 2 years ago
They didn't come down because of what they did. They had them on for warning. And there is no lever its all electrical current. When a train is coming the rails have a electrical current to the switch and thats what set off the signal. Now the gates never lowered because in the relay box they had it manually running the gates they had the service relay pulled out... In high winds they have a service mechanism. witch turn the service signals on... I know i work for Safetran.
mreil23 2 years ago
@mreil23 . U do? what about Western Cullen Hayes
BRYLON123456789 1 year ago
@BRYLON123456789 that too but I'd rather say safetran because personally i like Safetran better
mreil23 1 year ago
@prgreg4090 The flood from the hurricane may have coused the crossing go off and the wind could have disabled the gates or the wind could have blown over the signal cabnet. P.S Is this at a train station or something?
Megahammerheadshark 5 months ago