Model Train HO scale - Life Like Roadroad X ing

A Life Like RailRoad Crossing which was bought many years ago...with US style setting and works mechanically. And a Germany locomotive with passenger cars passing the RRXing.

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• HO
• scale
• model
• train
• railway
• railroad
• crossing
• gate
• Life
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[nathan82206]

The arm is to stop the car from backing up when the train is trying to eat it :D

[perrymak2000]

@nathan82206

ha~ The truth behind that gate..

[tryithere]

It's the suicide gate.

[perrymak2000]

@tryithere

cool~

[unionpacifictrain]

well my reason is because the gate doesn't stay down and that thing is a piece of crap!

[perrymak2000]

right~that's true

[disturbedone5009]

I have this crossing but never use it. The arms bouncing up and down always piss me off.

[lilemotom]

nice but if that was real life the car wud get crushed cos of how late the signals went down

[wileyk209zback]

@177987auprr1 That's because they first began making that in 1978. Many HO-scale manufacturers have followed this practice; Athearn, Tyco, and others.

[wileyk209zback]

I have a version of this that has two gates instead of one, and uses Life-Like's Power-Loc track. It came with my Freight Runner HO-scale train set (other accessories included a 90-degree cross track for the figure eight layout, a stock pen with little human and farm animal figures for it, a train station building kit, some trees, automobiles, signs and utility poles. I've actually switched to using Code-83 track now, but I still have the train and accessories on it.

[RockynRalphie]

Looks like that Life Like Gate isn't "Life Like" enough

[denelson83]

Gate says "om nom nom".

[unionpacifictrain]

@JBofBrisbane chain spam is rediculous, its a tually really annoying, i will never post chain spam again.

[JBofBrisbane]

@unionpacifictrain - hope you learned your lesson between then and now - don't forward chain spam.

[JBofBrisbane]

@177987auprr1 - It's actually a half boom, not a gate or an arm. The Life-Like one is modelled on what they looked like forty-odd years ago, when Life-Like started making crossings.

[flightsimtim]

LOL - the gate is trying to kill you! For more realistic operation try Walthers signals and gates connected to under-table Tortoise switch machines.

[177987auprr1]

I wish Life-Like would get their act together and get the crossing signals right. The crossbuck isn't black with white text. It's supposed to be the other way with black text and a white crossbuck. The gate (it is not an arm it is a gate people!) isn't black and yellow it is RED and WHITE!. But nice vid though!

[mab102599]

I might get one