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Re: Will SMART Actually Fix the Connection to the Gates?
Author: Shortline Sammie
Date: 12-23-2016 - 09:28
The Odd Duck Wrote:
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> I don’t understand why they don’t use a crier like
> the fire engines at red light. You set one at the
> beginning of the crossing and one at the other
> side, the train has a low frequency coded radio
> single trip the first one and when over the
> crossing the second one. It seem like the simple
> way of doing it.
FRA Regulations require trains to actually shunt the track when a crossing is occupied to activate the gates...auxiliary devices can be in addition but the train MUST shunt the track when the crossing is occupied.
Dick Samuels
Oregon Pacific Railroad
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> I don’t understand why they don’t use a crier like
> the fire engines at red light. You set one at the
> beginning of the crossing and one at the other
> side, the train has a low frequency coded radio
> single trip the first one and when over the
> crossing the second one. It seem like the simple
> way of doing it.
FRA Regulations require trains to actually shunt the track when a crossing is occupied to activate the gates...auxiliary devices can be in addition but the train MUST shunt the track when the crossing is occupied.
Dick Samuels
Oregon Pacific Railroad
