Oak St. Crossing Malfunction (Conrail) June 27, 2009

Conrail's crossing was malfunctioning...due to lightning taking out a lightning arrester. It was out since Thursday, June 25, 2009...and the batteries were going dead. Seems that everytime I call malfunctions into Conrail...the NS police (dispatch) think it's CN's problem...and send them out first. Well, I called it in initally at 3:07 PM EDT...and they didn't come out until about 9:30 to fix it. The power was back on at 9:50, and it finally was fixed. A southbound NS train came and the signals didn't activate...because of the dead batteries. NS really needs to get in gear or something could happen that they won't like.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• NS
• Conrail
• Norfolk
• Southern
• Malfunction
• Wyandotte
• Michigan
• Oak
• St.
• Power
• Outage
• Batteries

[moonwalker5058]

How do those WC Hayes E Bells work? Is it just a speaker?

[owensri2]

@moonwalker5058: Actually, these are General Signals (GS) E-Bells. The have a circuit board with a speaker attached to it, generating the sound. :)

[we34w]

With 2 railroads like this call both railroads. At the same time.

[owensri2]

@we34w: Actually, I know which track is malfunctioning due to the way they have the crossing set up. The rear lights were off on both of CN's crossings, so I called Conrail, because that's who's crossing was messing up.  :)

[GP382NJ]

The third track had its lights on but its stuck on the right side.

[inels100]

Hey if this happens again can you video tape it as Conrail was coming?

[boblittlejohn]

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[TboltSiren1000T]

Right after the 2nd train passed, Conrail was coming in.

[RailWolf7306]

Interesting malfunction. I do really like the Dash 8-40CMs on that CN train, nice BC Rail unit too. That's a bit scary with the NS train going through with no crossing lights, and I find it a bit funny that the maintenance truck shows up as the end of the train goes by.

[DJUnibob]

Very interesting here. The train near 8:30 was going slow enough to stop if the engineer and conductor felt the need to, so dispatch must have given them the heads up on it to do a stop and flag/protect if needed. The conductor also would have noticed the lack of lights on his track and the stuck light on the adjacent track.

That does sound like a very serious problem with communication if it took them 6 and half hours to get someone to even look at it.

[gandhi1470]

did owensri2 called someone to fix the oak street railroad crossing

[myrealghostbusters]

the crossing lights makes the scene look like a frozen photo. sweet find.