Railroad Crossing Gates Malfunction

This is a film I made of the csx railroad crossing gates that are across the street from my home. Everytime a train goes by the gates get stuck on the way up. It has been reported but everytime CSX comes out the gates work fine. Now they can view this and see there is a problem.

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[MobileTaz]

@robertgift railroad signals in the US have never been fail-safe. if the power is out, the signal is dead. the gates dont fall because that could cause massive traffic disruption. thats why trains are required to blow horns starting 15 seconds from the crossing.

[Millenniumforce]

@MobileTaz The gates here have battery back ups. If the power goes out the batteries in the metal storage building next to the crossing has enough power to supply the gates for a couple of days the CSX maintanence guy said

[SuperNorfolksouthern]

those gates remind me of hershey park

[Millenniumforce]

@SuperNorfolksouthern Yes I know Hershey Park Area. They Do.. Also I subbed you.

[Lanceaferd]

That train is on the "S" Line headed to the TECO power plant near Ruskin. Bet you see lots of Tropicana trains on this line in the late morning hours...

[Millenniumforce]

@Lanceaferd I see one tropicana train at about 12:30pm heading for New Jersey and another one late in the day heading for Bradenton.

[robertgift]

@MobileTaz That is not FAIL-SAFE.

If anything fails, such as dead batteries, broken power wires, etc., I'd expect the gate to close and protect the crossing.

In China, they have a third (o), blue color, beneathe (o)=(o).

A sign on the signal reads that if the blue (o) is out, the signal is dead. "Don't use."

[MobileTaz]

@robertgift Nope, the gates are gravity return. The motor drives them down and keeps them there, but to raise them the controller simply shuts the motor off. If you look at the butt end of pretty much any crossing arm, you will see a stack of metal plates hanging off the pivot. This is the counterweight, and it is slightly heavier than would be needed to balance the arm. When the motor turns off, the counterweight falls, lifting the arm.

[jettrainfan]

starting at 4:02 *starts going up then stops* crossing 1: should we go up any more? crossing 2: um.... screw it *keeps going up* crossing 1: if ya say so *starts going up as well*

[Millenniumforce]

@robertgift Funny how when the trains went buy the gates malfunctioned but when I called CSX and they came and lowered and raised them several times they worked fine. Then when they left ad the train came thru they messed up again making me look like a liar. LOL so I made this video to prove it to them. Funny just now those gates are going down I can hear the bell ringing from my bedroom now there going back up and no train. LOL