Main Street Railroad Crossing

The Harbor Turn comes home to Tigard at midnight on the dot. Here it crosses Main Street in empty downtown Tigard. The only progress it manages to impede is that of a Tri-Met bus.

An ex-ATSF unit is on the point and two former Saint Lawrence & Atlantic units trail. The bells you hear ringing as the gates go up are the bells of a nearby pedestrian crossing.

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• harbor
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• main
• street
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[deloreanman14]

This is my very first video to make it to 100,000 views! Thanks to all!!!

[Toucanfan]

Why does the train sound the horn when there already are bells ringing? In Europe they don't.

[deloreanman14]

@Toucanfan - It is North American law that the locomotive engineer must sound his horn in a crossing sequence (long-long-short-long) before entering each crossing unless the crossing has a Quiet Zone which must be requested by the city or county and then approved by the railroad.

[Aloud11]

someone wired that gate wrong. the light at the end of the gate is suposed to stay on and not flash. just like the one on the other side of the street..

[deloreanman14]

@Aloud11 - They have since fixed the problem.

[NS7698]

I hate those electronic bells, I thought they were supposed to be off when the gates are down?

[deloreanman14]

@NS7698 - Here in Oregon, bells always ring from start up until the gates start rising. UP often does it so the bells ring whenever the lights are flashing. This line used to be an SP line and I guess the Portland & Western just continued their way of doing things.

[sirkrunch]

Woah, the light on the tip of the gate is flashing...

[Subaruguy8508]

Yeah actually they do.....but those idiots usually get to the next crossing only to find the lights flashing and the gates already going down.....I remember a guy racing us from MP 58 to MP 53 to try and get ahead of us on the NS lurgan branch, but he got to MP 53 the same time we did.....Train=1 Idiot=0 LOL

[GastrodonAmy]

In Australia (at least in Adelaide), the bells ding the whole way, even when the gates go up.

[SUNSBEATLA13]

@deloreanman14 some (rarely) have this installment where the trains cant blow there own horns but they have a automated machine to do it for them ur also forgetting that they must blow there horns to warn Traffic but yah your right

[bnsf4]

I sometimes think that electronic bells are annoying at times, this one is the best one I have ever heard before!

[Are44441]

in québec (lemieu) they have a train cross evry 20 minutes

[Trainking922]

@deloreanman14 Actually some crossings are meant to be like that. Their harder to find but some have every light on the gate flash.

[N617A]

ok so since the comment is pending aprroval the end lights are not supposed to be flashing and ever since the wes was put in EVERY gate it runs by does that. it has NOT been fixed.

[N617A]

@deloreanman14 no they didn't...