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This gate isn't waiting for anybody to get out of the way. The crossing was activating for a Conrail Hi-Rail truck. It stopped the first time...and then resumed after checking something on the tracks. The gate was recently replaced...changed from a fiberglass gate to aluminum. It was heavier...but the counterweights weren't moved to account for the extra weight. It's fixed now though.

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  • That would make a nice big dent on someones car

  • wow that gate could smash someone in the ground, i mean really.

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  • ThAt Gate MoVin MigHtY FasTs............Its sayin "O You Gonna Stop Today".....lol

  • what was the the white thing at the end way down where the thing was going

  • @bisbeejim1 Yea

  • Finally, a gate that clobber's the signal running idiots!

  • Haha! if a person was under that gate, they'd probably be say: "oh look, a train must be coming." SMACK. That gate came really close to hitting the road though. :P

  • have ones like these on every single crossing in america!

  • ALL GATED CROSSINGS SHOULD HAVE GATES LIKE THAT

  • @deloreanman14 I agree. They should have gates light that for gate runners

  • I should add, that was around the time when wooden gates were being considered being swapped for lighter weight metals, shortly after when I said that about that summer, the 2x4's that were used in the gates were taken out an replaced with aluminum gates along with the counter weights and relieved alot of the problems, although there were still alot alot of malfunctions caused by signal relays and also by sensors. Those were since fixed, as of, to my knowledge, in 1997, after I moved out.

  • just by judging it, that gate is struggling big time just to raise back up after de-activation. :p

    I remember seeing one of Grand Trunks maintenance Trucks @ 9 Mile road about 12 years ago during a summer when damn near every single one of Ferndale's Crossings were to malfunction daily during the summer. One of few times you were to see a Nathan P5 on an F-350 legally. :p

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