MOW dosnt set off the crossing gates. The only possible way for the gates to never come down is if the signal maintaner actually locks out the crossing inside the box and it takes an entire process and alot of forms and safety precautions to do that. other wise the crossings are fail safed so well the gates will be down unless something major occurs.
Some trainmaster you are I work with MOW equipment everyday i stand at crossings plenty of times a day to get hi rail trucks on and off track the gates never come down the only time they start coming down is when we have a holland rail welding truck
Very misleading title!! There was no train in the video and the gates did not malfunction! I would explain it to you but it is not worth my trouble. You probably think you are a professional railroader. Go tell someone about a Leslie airhorn like the rest of the railroader wanna be idiots!!
The gates are set off when something makes a short in the track circuit by connecting the two rails electrically, the MOW equipment has insulators so they don't create a short and can trip the circuit with a switch in the cab if they choose to.
No malfunction here. These MOW vehicals probably have a switch to flip to activate the siginals. They probably chose not to do so because it would probably hold up traffic even longer. And they don't have to be heavy to set off a crossing cirucit. I have worked with a tie inserter and it does set off the crossings and it is even smaller than than some of the MOW vehicals in this video. Nice catch but not a malfunction.
These aren't technically cars, that is why it didsn't activate the sensors. It has to be a heavy duty engine to activate the switch. These are light vehicles. Also, the workers might have deactivated the signals because they were doing work near by and didn't want to disturb the traffic...
sometimes the track equipment is either a not heavy enough or b not goin fast enough to trip the circuits its not always a problem with the crossings.
The crossing is fail-safe. If there is a malfunction, the gates will drop and the lights will flash. There is no possible way the signals won't activate when they need to. The reason they don't activate here is because maintenance of way equipment doesn't have shunts, meaning the wheels don't have a current going between both rails. They do this on purpose because at times they work close to grade crossings, and don't want the gates down when they shouldn't be.
@tfoster09 Actually, activation failures can, and do happen. They are extremely rare however.
I had one where a section of yard track in an ac/dc circuit was on a 1:15 timer. A bond broke, the timer ran for its 1:15 then de-activated the crossing thinking a train was stopped in the circuit. Later that day an actual train came through (at 10mph), and was luckily able to stop and flag in time. I then was called out and fixed the problem, and had to fill out a bunch of paperwork for the FRA
My worry is that it could shut off when a real train is going by. That is why you should always look and listen rather then trust your life on some technology, sensors, and electricity. STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN.
@trainmaster1226 The Railroad is build to be Fail-proof. These men here are doing a 6.32.2 on the crossing, which means theyre working on it and put it out of service, so these few men are designated to protectthe crossing, trains will call 5 minutes ahead to whoever is at the crossin for permission to come through the limits of there 6.32.2 (Protect order) Than everyone gets in position to protect the crossing, this High-Rail Equiptment here is just tampers and stuff. for the Ballast (rocks)
Sometimes they will shut off the crossing because they would be going off all the time when they are fixing the tracks. Because of the eltric current in the tracks making contact with each other.
MOW dosnt set off the crossing gates. The only possible way for the gates to never come down is if the signal maintaner actually locks out the crossing inside the box and it takes an entire process and alot of forms and safety precautions to do that. other wise the crossings are fail safed so well the gates will be down unless something major occurs.
ilrailfan 1 week ago
Some trainmaster you are I work with MOW equipment everyday i stand at crossings plenty of times a day to get hi rail trucks on and off track the gates never come down the only time they start coming down is when we have a holland rail welding truck
flames4dacup 2 months ago
RIP the boy who died
2002puravida 2 months ago
man thats wat i hate about these malfunctions...i am fooled by them
CSX2665 4 months ago
Very misleading title!! There was no train in the video and the gates did not malfunction! I would explain it to you but it is not worth my trouble. You probably think you are a professional railroader. Go tell someone about a Leslie airhorn like the rest of the railroader wanna be idiots!!
CintiRailFan 4 months ago
@thecaseyhuff its not weight that set it off, its a circuit that does it in the rails
UltimateRailfanner 7 months ago
Are those railroad convoys on the track?
Corey6496 7 months ago
The gates are set off when something makes a short in the track circuit by connecting the two rails electrically, the MOW equipment has insulators so they don't create a short and can trip the circuit with a switch in the cab if they choose to.
75249 1 year ago 4
only reason they prob didnt go down was cuz of it being a work train
gregrocks66 1 year ago
No malfunction here. These MOW vehicals probably have a switch to flip to activate the siginals. They probably chose not to do so because it would probably hold up traffic even longer. And they don't have to be heavy to set off a crossing cirucit. I have worked with a tie inserter and it does set off the crossings and it is even smaller than than some of the MOW vehicals in this video. Nice catch but not a malfunction.
metraF40PH163 1 year ago 2
These aren't technically cars, that is why it didsn't activate the sensors. It has to be a heavy duty engine to activate the switch. These are light vehicles. Also, the workers might have deactivated the signals because they were doing work near by and didn't want to disturb the traffic...
Bowlnmike 1 year ago
sometimes the track equipment is either a not heavy enough or b not goin fast enough to trip the circuits its not always a problem with the crossings.
tftrainman 1 year ago
some of the equipment that works on the track(s) will not turn the crossing signal on
eddieg749 1 year ago
those signals were probably just jumped up while the work was in progress.
johnyboy087 1 year ago
The crossing is fail-safe. If there is a malfunction, the gates will drop and the lights will flash. There is no possible way the signals won't activate when they need to. The reason they don't activate here is because maintenance of way equipment doesn't have shunts, meaning the wheels don't have a current going between both rails. They do this on purpose because at times they work close to grade crossings, and don't want the gates down when they shouldn't be.
tfoster09 2 years ago
@tfoster09 Actually, activation failures can, and do happen. They are extremely rare however.
I had one where a section of yard track in an ac/dc circuit was on a 1:15 timer. A bond broke, the timer ran for its 1:15 then de-activated the crossing thinking a train was stopped in the circuit. Later that day an actual train came through (at 10mph), and was luckily able to stop and flag in time. I then was called out and fixed the problem, and had to fill out a bunch of paperwork for the FRA
GHMFshows 1 year ago
My worry is that it could shut off when a real train is going by. That is why you should always look and listen rather then trust your life on some technology, sensors, and electricity. STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN.
trainmaster1226 2 years ago 4
@trainmaster1226 The Railroad is build to be Fail-proof. These men here are doing a 6.32.2 on the crossing, which means theyre working on it and put it out of service, so these few men are designated to protectthe crossing, trains will call 5 minutes ahead to whoever is at the crossin for permission to come through the limits of there 6.32.2 (Protect order) Than everyone gets in position to protect the crossing, this High-Rail Equiptment here is just tampers and stuff. for the Ballast (rocks)
HeinzBeard 1 year ago
Sometimes they will shut off the crossing because they would be going off all the time when they are fixing the tracks. Because of the eltric current in the tracks making contact with each other.
InformationCenter 2 years ago