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Re: Ever seen a stoplight for a RR crossing? Here's one in Colorado
Author: Good catch... It would work better!
Date: 01-27-2019 - 17:29
Good luck getting a State DOT to go for a new install! They'd rather have the std. per the Federal Book because its the Federal standard, nobody ever has to answer for why they picked 'X' (and carrier should be happy with the legal precedent of the crowd vs. attempt to suggest there could a safer way that people would actually comply with / understand). Stuff like this probably coming out when it hits someones radar for needing updating. Wouldn't be surprised though if this one is a stop & RR push button in lock box.
GX tech and all its false activations, failures to activate, crashing gates (etc.) is such a drag on the business, and honestly leads to fatalities (both those driver caused or the carriers fault). How reliable can something be that often has to be adjusted several times a year and is required to be tested monthly? And Day 32 is OMG! territory, but you can count on it just fine for 30 days - huh?
PTC routes should go to head end activation, if PTC halfway amounts to its supposed billing. But there's no PTC knowledge of the actual rear of the train. [Except through math / consist data, which incidentally has everything to do with the braking commencement calcs.]
GX tech and all its false activations, failures to activate, crashing gates (etc.) is such a drag on the business, and honestly leads to fatalities (both those driver caused or the carriers fault). How reliable can something be that often has to be adjusted several times a year and is required to be tested monthly? And Day 32 is OMG! territory, but you can count on it just fine for 30 days - huh?
PTC routes should go to head end activation, if PTC halfway amounts to its supposed billing. But there's no PTC knowledge of the actual rear of the train. [Except through math / consist data, which incidentally has everything to do with the braking commencement calcs.]
